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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Defense industry is afraid of testing hypersonics, lacks test infrastructure
Here’s an interesting bit from SecDef Llyod Austin’s meeting with more than a dozen hypersonic defense contractors: During the meeting, multiple CEOs described the need […]
To stop industrial consolidation, DoD must look in the mirror
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 […]
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 […]
Defense industry financial performance during COVID-19, third quarter update
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 […]
Is there really a Silicon Valley/Military divide?
We performed an in-depth analysis of all public US federal (sub)contracting data over the last four and a half years to estimate the rankings of tech companies, […]
Why aren’t investors interested in defense?
II think many of the policies that we have around small business have been focused on what I’d consider to be social justice more than […]
Why does US defense industry fail in “normal” times?
Here is Fredric Scherer discussing why the US defense industry seemed to perform so well in urgent programs of the 1940s and 50s, and so […]