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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

Fellow

Adam Hammer

Nonresident Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Emerging Defense Challenges

Jan 15, 2014

Defense News Covers Atlantic Council Captains of Industry

Defense News mentions the Atlantic Council Captains of Industry event, featuring Textron Systems CEO Ellen Lord:

Captains of Industry Series

Jan 15, 2014

Textron’s Ellen Lord on the Future of Defense Contracting

Ellen Lord, CEO of Textron Systems, gave the third address of the Atlantic Council Captains of Industry series, speaking on her “View of Defense from Inside a Multi-Industrial Company.”

Captains of Industry Series

Jan 15, 2014

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 […]

Emerging Defense Challenges

Jan 15, 2014

Transcript: View of Defense from Inside a Multi-Industrial Company

Ellen Lord, CEO of Textron Systems, gave the third address of the Atlantic Council Captains of Industry series on January 15, 2014, speaking on her “View of Defense from Inside a Multi-Industrial Company.”

Defense Industrialist

Dec 24, 2013

For Brazil, Just the Right Plane, and at the Right Price

By James Hasik

As has been widely reported, and after what The Aviationist called “ten years of negotiations and speculations,” the Brazilian federal government announced last week that Saab’s JAS-39E Gripen NG had been selected as the next fighter jet of the Força Aérea, beating out Dassault’s Rafale and Boeing’s F/A-18E Super Hornet. The timing of the announcement was unexpected, but the […]

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Defense Industrialist

Dec 18, 2013

Exelis Gets Ahead of the Curve

By James Hasik, Steven Grundman

This past week Exelis, the former ITT Defense, announced that it would be spinning off its services unit, currently called Exelis Mission Systems, into a new, publicly traded, “global facilities, logistics and network services provider”. The soon-to-be-renamed Missions Systems will be a significant entity all its own, with 7,000 staff in 18 countries and about $1.5 billion […]

Defense Industrialist

Dec 12, 2013

An “Arms-Length” DE&S—Why Not the Same Fix for AT&L?

By James Hasik

With just one bid on his desk, UK Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond had little choice but to give up on a controversial plan to put Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) under a government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) model. Instead, procurement will be put at arms length from the rest of the ministry, and given financial and human […]

Emerging Defense Challenges

Dec 11, 2013

Corporate Strategy Forum Discusses Transformation

On December 11, the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security held a private, roundtable discussion for its Corporate Strategy Forum on the topic of “Near-Death and Transformation.” Speaking to the issues of transformation during a sharp inflection in customer preferences and competition were Michael Bayer, president and CEO of Dumbarton Strategies LLC, and Mike Giersch, […]

Defense Industrialist

Dec 7, 2013

Today RQ-180, Tomorrow LRS-B

By James Hasik

News of Northrop Grumman’s stealthy RQ-180 drone aircraft, revealed just yesterday by Aviation Week & Space Technology, may be of more than tactical significance. As our friend Byron Callan argued immediately thereafter in a report for investors, it provides an industrial signal as well: competition in fixed-wing military aircraft is still vigorous in the United States. If Northrop […]

Defense Industrialist

Dec 4, 2013

Not Cheap, but is it Urgently Needed?

By James Hasik

Platforms, Payloads, and the LRS-B The other week I wrote about how the US Air Force’s projected price for its hoped-for Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B)—just $550 million each—might not be believable. We will hear the argument, of course, that whatever the cost, it simply must be paid, as the alternative is an aging and irrelevant bomber fleet. […]

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