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Gay Couples May Have to Marry ... to Keep Benefits

Tim Karan — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:09:21 CDT

Now that gay marriage is legal in New York, some couples might have no choice but to take the plunge—at least if they want to keep their health insurance. Two major companies—Raytheon and IBM—say employees in same-sex relationships must get married if they want to keep the...

Feds Raid Missile Expert's Home After He's Stopped at Airport

Rob Quinn — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:42:27 CDT

Federal agents have raided the suburban Boston home of a missile systems engineer who has worked for military contractor Raytheon. Several boxes of items were removed from the home of Richard Lloyd, who was stopped at New York's JFK airport trying to board a flight with a Raytheon laptop computer...

Military Shows Off 'Iron Man' Armor

Kevin Spak — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:03:00 CDT

Raytheon unveiled a revolutionary new military technology yesterday—at an event celebrating the Iron Man 2 DVD release. It’s a fairly apt product tie-in. The company was demonstrating its second-generation Exoskeleton, or XOS 2, a hydraulic suit that can allow a soldier to easily and repeatedly lift 200 pounds, or...

Pentagon Builds Legion of 'Hacker Soldiers'

Matt Cantor — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:52:19 CDT

Military recruiters may still prize the strapping jock, but military contractors are wooing the scrawny computer geek to join the ranks of young "hacker soldiers" enlisted to defend the US in cyberwarfare, the New York Times reports. Most of the biggest companies, like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, have “cyber...

Defense Giants Stalk Cyberwar Contracts

Harry Kimball — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:05:00 CDT

Major defense contractors are already staffed with "hacker soldiers" who can help them earn billions of dollars in Washington's new cyberwar, the New York Times reports. Cranking rock tunes and piling up pop cans, engineers hack away at companies like Raytheon, working for the Pentagon or protecting internal documents. Now,...

Embattled Blackwater Maneuvering to Expand Role

Peter Fearon — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:05:52 CDT

Blackwater, the private security firm under fire for controversial shootings in Iraq, is preparing expansion plans to develop a bigger role as an arm of the US military. Company founder Erik Prince wants to make Blackwater a one-stop shop for all kinds of operations to which Washington won't commit US...

Ray Gun Eyed for Riot Control

Lucas Laursen — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:12:27 CDT

The US is eyeing a new weapon said to produce "waves of agony" for its potential in riot control and combat situations, reports Information Week. Raytheon's Silent Guardian aims a highly concentrated beam of millimeter waves, heating water just under the skin in a manner that creates a burning sensation...

Pentagon Woos Tech Startups

Greg Atwan — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:38:08 CDT

Infant tech companies are fast becoming a tributary in the pipeline between the Pentagon and big contractors, the Times reports. And in a new, official initiative, Defense is tasking venture capitalists to harvest ideas and technologies from the fast-moving tech startups they monitor, and small companies are winning coveted contracts.