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Why is defense innovation so slow?

October 19, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

If a clever engineer imagines a new weapon for the Air Force, and if the research-and-development office specializing in that class of weapons approves of […]

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Why does US defense industry fail in “normal” times?

April 12, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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