Category: Captains of Industry Series

Enders’ Game

By James Hasik

Transnational Armaments Development Without the Horror Last week, Airbus CEO Tom Enders spoke in our Captains of Industry series on “The State of European Defense”. Russian misbehavior to the east notwithstanding, it’s a challenging market. Particularly challenging has been trying to manage multinational development projects like those of the NH90 helicopter and the A400M airlifter. After the experience […]

Transcript: Atlantic Council Captains of Industry with Thomas Enders, CEO, Airbus Group

Welcome: Brent Scowcroft, Chairman, International Advisory Board, Atlantic Council Moderator: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council Speaker: Thomas Enders, CEO, Airbus Group

Webcast: Captains of Industry Series with Gen. John P. Jumper, President and CEO, Leidos

Join us on Thursday, April 17 from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. to hear from Gen. John P. Jumper, USAF (Ret.) who will discuss his tenure at SAIC and Leidos, and how the company had to evolve in order to grow.

Webcast: Information Technology and the Future of Defense

Please join us on March 5 from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. for a dicussion with David Zolet, executive vice president and general manager, CSC North America Public Sector.

Achieving Defense Information Superiority

Cloud computing. Big data analytics. Cybersecurity. These are among the most important technological advances that are transforming the landscape of the world’s unfolding information technology revolution. However, as demonstrated by the Healthcare.gov website debacle and a mixed record of other information system acquisition programs, the federal government often struggles to harness these technologies to their […]

Prepared Remarks by David Zolet, Executive Vice President North American Public Sector, CSC

By David Zolet

Prepared Remarks by David Zolet, Executive Vice President North American Public Sector, CSC delivered at the fourth event in Atlantic Council Captains of Industry series on March 6, 2014.

Ellen Lord’s View from Inside: Opportunities for Multi-Industrials

By James Hasik

Ellen Lord, CEO of Textron Systems, yesterday gave the third address of our Captains of Industry series here at the Atlantic Council, speaking on her “View of Defense from Inside a Multi-Industrial Company”. In the aftermath of the Cold War, the US defense industry largely restructured around large-scale specialists in government contracting. The biggest companies […]

Webcast: Atlantic Council Captains of Industry Series Featuring Ellen Lord

Join us on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 from 10:30am – 11:45am as Ellen Lord, President and CEO of Textron Systems, will share her perspective on the strengths her company brings to the market, the challenges facing the modern conglomerate, and how public policy shapes the incentives to which these companies respond. Follow on Twitter @AtlanticCouncil […]