WASHINGTON – U.S. defense contractors have launched a lobbying and public relations blitz to defeat a provision in the Senate-passed NDAA that would set strict new rules for how the Pentagon accesses ...

FedEx and its largest contractor are locked in a contentious battle over how to handle rising costs. The acrimony increased Friday when FedEx filed suit against Spencer Patton's company. Hours later, ...

After two contractors at Los Angeles International Airport recently broke off their union ties, a major union is ramping up the pressure to prevent any more defections. The Service Employees ...

Some contractors have abandoned firefighting altogether, selling off their equipment to other contractors and even to local fire departments. The timing was right for Steve Riveland, a retired law ...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Thursday appealed to local contractors to fight against corruption in the construction industry. "Instead local contractors should be at the forefront in reporting ...

SEATTLE -- The Department of Energy (DOE) has contributed more than a million dollars to help contractors at the Hanford Nuclear fight a whistleblower complaint. In 2010, Dr. Walter Tamosaitis ...

...putting stimulus projects on the street. With contractors eager to keep as fully staffed as possible, the state is benefitting. Bid prices have been about 20%-25% lower than N.C. Dept. of ...

...what everyone has been talking about is done," says Eugene Bard, a principal of Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers Inc., Boston. "It s becoming standard now. [Even] five years ago, we did not ...

RIG contractors working off Norway that were riding a market wave a few years ago have been left floundering in a perfect storm of low oil prices, industry cost-cutting and an oversupply of units. The ...