The amount of money spent on the defense sector equals $4.7 billion a day or $249 per person.

Establish or abolish central organs of the national defense sector.

Service industries have replaced the defense sector as the Island's dominant employer in terms of both employment and income generation.

The defense sector received the highest priority under the plan.

"So we cast a net and the defense sector is what comes up."

Now, with federal spending on the military and homeland security on the rise, the defense sector is showing new life.

One of Ms. Kornreich's first studies in the 1960's showed how important the defense sector was to the local economy.

The collapse of the Soviet Union sent the defense sector into a tailspin.

Most of the companies were in the aeronautics and defense sector.

"That's analogous to what we had in the 1980's with the defense sector."