Alliant Techsystems Inc. supplies aerospace and defense products to the U.S. government agencies, and its prime contractors and subcontractors. The company also supplies ammunition and related accessories to law enforcement agencies and commercial customers. Its ATK Armament Systems segment offers military ammunition and gun systems, such as small-caliber training and tactical ammunition rounds; medium-caliber ammunition, including fighting and light armored vehicles, helicopters, A-10 close-combat support aircraft, and AC-130 gunship aircraft; and chain guns. This segment also provides ammunition, gun care products, targets and traps, rifle scopes and mounts, and binoculars to law enforcement agencies and sport shooting enthusiasts; solid extruded propellant for medium caliber and tank ammunition, artillery charge systems, and air and ground launched rockets; and commercial gun powder for sporting ammunition manufacturers, hunters, and sport shooters. The company’s ATK Mission Systems segment offers missile systems, precision-guided munitions, force protection systems, soldier weapon systems, barrier systems, large-caliber ammunition, tactical and hypersonic propulsion systems, warheads, fuzes, missile defense divert and control systems, electronic warfare and aircraft integration products, structural and engine components, radomes, and apertures. Alliant Techsystems’ ATK Space Systems segment manufactures human and cargo launch vehicles, conventional and strategic missiles, missile defense interceptors, and decoy and illuminating flares. This segment also offers solar arrays and solar panel substrates; radio frequency antenna reflectors and antennas; composite bus structures, towers, and subsystems; thermal systems; titanium propellant tanks; and insertion motors, as well as technical services. It operates in the United States, Puerto Rico, and internationally. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, an operating unit of Space Systems Company is at the forefront of a space-based telecommunications revolution that is connecting the world through voice, data, fax, television, radio and multimedia. The award winning A2100 modular bus design allows this powerful spacecraft to be configured to customers' specific needs, adding and changing components as required, and avoiding the cost and risk of new design development.

The company keeps commercial and military aircraft aloft with its high-performance fuel-flow devices. It builds main engine fuel pumps and systems, airframe fuel pumps, and various ground fuel distribution products. Through its Carter Ground Fueling division, Argo-Tech also makes ground refueling equipment. Customers have included the US Army and Air Force, engine and airframe makers such as Airbus, Boeing, GE Aircraft Engines, and Lockheed Martin, and aerospace distributor Upsilon International. In 2007, investment concerns Greenbriar Equity Group and Vestar Capital Partners sold AT Holdings Corp., the parent of Argo-Tech, to Eaton.

General Electric is the world's largest maker of jet engines, so if you've ever been to an airport, you've doubtless heard the whine of GE jet engines. Keeping all those engines functioning is the task of GE Engine Services. The company provides engine maintenance, repair, overhaul services, and technology upgrades, as well as engine exchange. It supplies customers with new and used engine parts; leases engines and provides financing for engine customers; and inspects, analyzes, and diagnoses engines. Not only does it work on its own engines, but it also works on its competitors' engines, including those made by Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney.

Flight Express, Inc. is an air courier company currently servicing the Southeast and Midwest United States. Our clients are banking and financial institutions, newspaper publishers, overnight freight delivery companies, payroll processors, photographic processors and anyone that needs highly supervised, same day transportation services on a regular basis. Flight Express operates Beechcraft Baron and Cessna 210 aircraft and our current fleet totals nearly 100 aircraft. Our pilots log over 64,000 flight hours per year and we are approaching 130 employees as we continue to expand.

For the right price, Ameristar Jet Charter will fly nearly anything nearly anywhere. The charter operator has a fleet of more than 30 aircraft -- mainly Learjet and Falcon models -- that it uses to transport both passengers and freight to destinations in North and South America. The carrier handles cargo of a wide variety of sizes and weights. Ameristar Jet Charter dispatches its fleet from the airport in Addison, Texas, north of Dallas.

BMT Defence Services is Europe's leading independent centre of excellence in naval design and engineering. Its track record in designing new and supporting existing warships, submarines and auxiliary vessels has been growing consistently since it was incorporated in 1988. The authority and credibility of its design advice is determined by the experience, qualifications and quality of its employees and by the continued independence of its parent company from defence system and equipment manufacturing interests. The company has supported almost every UK naval programme since 1988 and is one of the few external organisations to be named by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) as a Delegated Naval Authority. BMT Defence Services employs over 200 people at offices in Bath, Bristol, Keynsham and Weymouth.

Raytheon Company, is a world leader in the production of offensive and defensive missile systems and related weapons used for land-, air-, and sea-launched combat missiles. Among its missiles and bombs are the Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM); the Javelin, a portable anti-tank system; the anti-armor TOW (Tube-launched, Optically-tracked Wire-guided weapon system); the HARM (High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile), an air-defense radar killer; the Paveway, a laser-guided bomb; and the Excalibur, a guided extended range artillery projectile. The division is also developing directed energy weapons.

Société Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aeronautiques(SABCA)designs, tests, and manufactures aircraft parts for civil aviation, space, and military clients. A partner of Airbus and Dassault, SABCA supplies such integral parts as tailcones, wing panels, and subfloor structures used in private and commercial aircraft. It also manufactures structures and thrust vectoring systems for European space customers such as Arianespace and Europropulsion. SABCA's military operations include production, overhauls, and upgrades of military helicopters and airplanes, supporting nine air forces worldwide.

Rolls-Royce plc is the world's #2 aircraft engine maker behind General Electric division GE Aviation. Rolls-Royce's civil and defense aerospace business makes both commercial and military engines for a broad customer base, including more than 600 airlines, 4,000 corporate and utility aircraft and helicopter operators, and 160 armed forces around the world. Rolls-Royce also supplies power generation systems to the oil and gas industry and is one of the world's largest makers of marine propulsion systems. It maintains key operations in North America, Europe, and Asia, with emerging presence in the Middle East.

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