U.S. C4ISR Markets - Competitive Analysis Provides A Market Profile And Leading Company Statistics

Business Wire, Feb 8, 2007

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50042) has announced the addition of "U.S. C4ISR Markets - Competitive Analysis" to their offering.

This Frost & Sullivan research service entitled U.S. C4ISR Competitive Analysis provides a market profile and leading company statistics. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following markets: large manufacturers and systems integrators, mid-tier firms, and small service and technology companies.

Market Sectors

Frost & Sullivan expert analysts thoroughly examine the following sectors in this research:

* Competitive Analysis

* Large Manufacturers and Systems Integrators

* Mid Tier Firms

* Small Service and Technology Companies

Technologies

The following technologies are covered in this research:

* Command and Control

* Communications

* Computers

* Intelligence

* Surveillance and Reconnaissance

Market Overview

The U.S. Government carried a record budget deficit in 2005. The costs of fighting insurgencies and nation building in Afghanistan and Iraq were about $1,000.0 million a day, the Pentagon acquisition systems were broken according to some accounts - at least very inefficient - and congressional scrutiny had never been higher. Despite that environment, C4ISR spending, indeed the entire DoD budget, rose to meet the needs of the troops deployed in combat zones. Large defense firms such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Raytheon recorded large stock price increases and profits in 2005. The 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and the 5.0 percent increase for the 2007 budget requests put strong emphasis on continued increases for C4ISR technologies, with the only exception being immature space based programs. These increases do not include emergency and supplemental funding for wars which Congress has allowed the White House to keep separate from the programmed budget.

Overall, 2005 U.S. DoD C4ISR spending increased about 11.0 percent over 2004, reflecting the continuation of previous years' programs of record acquisition, emphasis on network security, the need to fill operational gaps in war zone tactical communications and unmanned vehicles, and the requirement to replace and upgrade C4ISR assets worn out by constant wartime use. About half of this increase is accounted for in supplemental and emergency spending at the DoD service or agency level and by combatant commanders' discretionary funding. This trend is expected to continue, with a large spike in tactical C4ISR assets along with cuts to immature future technologies to fund the refitting of the Army and Marine Corps as troops return to garrison.

Topics Covered:

* Total C4ISR Market Landscape

* Competitive Analysis

* Large Manufacturers and Systems Integrators Markets

* Mid-tier Firms Markets

* Small Service and Technology Companies Markets

* Database of Market Participants

* List of Acronyms and Decision Support Databases

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