Richard Tortoriello is the aerospace and defense analyst in the equity research division of Standard & Poor’s and has also conducted numerous quantitative investment studies for the company. He is responsible for buy, sell, and hold recommendations on twenty-five aerospace and defense-related stocks, including General Electric, Boeing, United Technologies, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell. He has been interviewed numerous times for Bloomberg Television, CNBC, BBC TV, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.