Defense industry consolidation geared up well before the “Last Supper”
The end of the Cold War and the “Last Supper,” where defense officials actively encouraged mergers between contracts, are often credited with the major consolidation […]
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What’s missing from analysis of competition in the defense industry?
Since the 1990s, the defense sector has consolidated substantially, transitioning from 51 to 5 aerospace and defense prime contractors. As a result, DoD is increasingly […]
Peter Theil talks defense industry consolidation
Robert O’Brien: One of the things we’ve seen that’s happened faster than the experts thought — particularly over the last decade — is that the […]
Data on SBIR, open topics, and the defense industry
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 […]
Could the Pentagon have had modern enterprise software tools 15 years earlier?
Preparation for Joint Warfighting is impeded by difficulties inherent in equipping a Joint Force by the separated Services. Divisions continue like fractals to the finest […]