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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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