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To stop industrial consolidation, DoD must look in the mirror

February 5, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

During the Trump administration, several  high-powered defense-related mergers and acquisitions occured. L3 Technologies merged with Harris, United Technologies acquired Rockwell Collins and then merged with […]

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Data on SBIR, open topics, and the defense industry

February 2, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

The U.S. military has historically been an important investor in transformational technologies, but this model faces challenges from a less innovative and more concentrated defense […]

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Army succeeds in attracting new entrants, is failing to move money to them

January 14, 2021 Eric Lofgren 2

Army programs designed to attract non-traditional companies have been met with enthusiasm. According to a senior official, Army Applications Laboratory received 5,500 inquiries in 2020 […]

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The tyranny of lowest price

January 1, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

“If they [the General Services Administration] want to be responsive to customer agency needs and be a bridge between the commercial market and the customer […]

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Key to defense innovation — making the 21st century institutionally legible

December 1, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Luke Constable: I don’t know how deep into accounting you are, there is a metric that’s really commonly used called EBITDA. And effectively, it is […]

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How should government own the technical baseline?

November 27, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In 1989, Kodak contracted with IBM to outsource its IT operations, creating the IT outsourcing industry. Kodak’s IT outsourcing proved disastrous. With a 10-year, $250 […]

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A meta analysis of industrial mobilization

November 25, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Francis: You’re inference at the end of this piece, “It’s time to make industrial mobilization cool again,” infers that there was a time when it […]

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Make industrial mobilization cool again — or is it for the first time?

November 20, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

The tradition of the Department of Defense is to define a weapon system end item, then fund that end item and the supplier base through […]

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Will Roper wants to end the “trickle down” economics of defense contracting

November 11, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Let me quickly break some things down. When we entered into the late Cold War and systems for the military especially the Air Force became […]

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Defense industry financial performance during COVID-19, third quarter update

November 5, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Government contractors were not immune to the economic disruption brought on by COVID-19. There are more than 50,000 contractors doing business directly with the Department […]

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Effectiveness over Efficiency: Preparing the US Industrial Base for Mobilization

October 13, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Mike Petters, President and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries: “Lack of resiliency comes from an overemphasis on efficiency at expense of risk management. I was […]

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Defense companies lose sight of product due to rules and regulations

October 10, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Working with government requires understanding the ins and outs of the literally thousands of pages of regulations: intellectual property rules that are unique to government, […]

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Can the military’s operating system for war succeed at scale?

October 9, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Anduril is best known for supplying surveillance towers and software used to watch over the US-Mexico border and some US bases. Now, it is retooling the software […]

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Proposals are defense contractors most important product

October 7, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

One point is the difference in overhead rates between defense and commercial-type business… First, perhaps, are the ways in which competitive bidding is often carried out. I […]

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Could there be a SpaceX-style entrant in the world of fighter aircraft?

October 1, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Such joint efforts and the use of digital engineering could allow smaller defense firms to focus on design work, whether for the whole aircraft of […]

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