Experts

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Michelle Kholos Brooks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Security & Defense

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Max Brooks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Crisis Management National Security

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August Cole

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Steven Grundman

Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Adam Hammer

Nonresident Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Captains of Industry Series

Dec 2, 2014

Are Lockheed, Raytheon, and L-3 “Ripe for a Spinoff”?

By James Hasik

The largest defense contractors are conglomerates, and excessive conglomeration may not be helping the customers.   Last month I argued that the rumored spinoff of Oshkosh’s military trucks business wouldn’t be good for either the company or its customers. But anti-mergers are in the air, as evidenced by the Wall Street Journal’s almost simultaneous article “Smucker, […]

Defense Industrialist

Nov 27, 2014

Advice to the Next SecDef

By James Hasik

Step one: eliminate whole echelons of headquarters.   On Thanksgiving Day here in the US, I would like to thank for their service troops all around the world, but particularly this week outgoing Defense Secretary Hagel for his. Like his two predecessors, he has had a tough time working with this White House. Each of […]

NATO Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Nov 25, 2014

Spin On, Not Off

By James Hasik

Spinning off Oshkosh Defense would be bad for the Department of Defense.   Last summer, as Sandra Erwin of National Defense reported, the US Army consciously warned American truck manufacturers of an impending slowdown in its purchasing. The industry is now so deep in that slowdown that speculation about restructuring has become old hat. But today’s Wall […]

Defense Industrialist

Nov 25, 2014

BBP + DII = Destruction or Creation?

By James Hasik

  The Pentagon is yet to explain how its twin defense-industrial strategies will interact.    The Pentagon’s Better Buying Power (BBP) initiative, launched four years ago and recently in its third version, is meant to unlock the government’s monopsony power in its relations with industry. BBP speaks considerably of improving productivity, but the details of […]

Captains of Industry Series

Nov 19, 2014

Transcript: Endless Possibilities for the Future of Space Launch

By Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council Endless Possibilities for the Future of Space Launch Welcome:Intro: Magnus Nordenman,Deputy Director,Brent Scowcroft Center Moderator:Jeffrey Roncka,Renaissance Strategic Advisors Speaker:Salvatore “Tory” Bruno,President and CEO,United Launch Alliance Location:1030 15th Street, NW,12th Floor (West Tower),Washington, D.C. Time: 4:30 p.m. ESTDate: Thursday, November 13, 2014 Transcript byFederal News ServiceWashington, D.C.

Space Technology & Innovation

Captains of Industry Series

Nov 19, 2014

Endless Possibilities for the Future of Space Launch

By Atlantic Council

On Thursday November 13, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security welcomed Salvatore “Tory” T. Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA). The event, titled “Endless Possibilities for the Future of Space Launch,” was the latest in the Atlantic Council Captains of Industry series, a platform for senior executives in aerospace and defense […]

Space Technology & Innovation

Defense Industrialist

Nov 18, 2014

Third Offset Strategy, Second Adversary

By James Hasik, Alex Ward

  What worked on the Soviets may not work on the Chinese.   Chuck Hagel’s speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum this past weekend may have been one of the most important by an American defense secretary in recent years. His new ‘Defense Innovation Initiative’ seems neither a DARPA program writ large nor a […]

China NATO

Defense Industrialist

Nov 14, 2014

From Overreaction to Finesse

By James Hasik

Better Buying Power may depend on human capital the Pentagon yet lacks.   Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer, said this week that his staff has “overreacted” at times to his guidance on improving outcomes and affordability. As Defense Industry Daily put it, this has caused some “tension with the defense industry amid the onset […]

NATO Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Nov 13, 2014

Minimum Sustainment Acquisition

By James Hasik, Dave Foster

The Pentagon needs a lighter touch with low-volume vendors.   Last week, in an essay on how software costs are eating the war effort, we wrote about a “bold industrial strategy” proposed by Atlantic Council advisor Harlan Ullman. As he wrote,        one solution is to shift conceptually and practically from a defense industrial base […]

NATO Security & Defense

Captains of Industry Series

Nov 13, 2014

Endless Possibilities for the Future of Space Launch

By Atlantic Council

Please join the Atlantic Council’s Captains of Industry Series for a conversation with Tory Bruno, President and CEO of United Launch Alliance on November 13th at 4:30pm.

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