The Air Force Doesn't Want Lockheed Martin's New Stealth Drone -- but Lockheed Is Building 5 of Them Anyway

For Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), the bad news arrived in June. The U.S. Air Force had just announced contracts to build new "Collaborative Combat Aircraft" -- CCA, the drone warplanes that will fly in support of piloted fighter jets -- naming two companies as winners. Lockheed Martin was neither of them. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue » Good news for Anduril and General Atomics -- and others In fact -- and bad news for defense stock investors -- no publicly traded defense stocks won CCA contracts.