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Markets rewarded defense industry consolidation and exit well before the “last supper”

March 4, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Of course defense companies start consolidating after World War II, and then again in the 1970s after the Vietnam War. Many observers see industrial consolidation […]

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Can Roper break the link between R&D and production? The case of NGAD

November 6, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

“NGAD could take the form of a single aircraft and/or a number of complementary systems – manned, unmanned, optionally manned, cyber, electronic forms that would […]

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Should companies doing large and complex R&D not perform production on their designs?

November 6, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

A fairly common pattern in the past and the present has been the carrying out of development even of a fairly exploratory nature by the […]

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