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Captains of Industry Series

Dec 16, 2014

Transcript: Playing the Long Game

By Atlantic Council

PLAYING THE LONG GAME MIKE PETTERS, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL DECEMBER 10, 2014 MIKE PETTERS, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES STEVEN GRUNDMAN, M.A., MODERATOR MARK BRUNNER, SENIOR ADVISER TO SEN. MARK WARNER

Captains of Industry Series

Dec 15, 2014

Playing the Long Game

By Atlantic Council

On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, for a discussion on the need to plan further ahead in defense-industrial issues. The speech, entitled “Playing the Long Game,” is the latest in the Atlantic Council’s Captains of Industry series, […]

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Cyber 9/12 Project

Dec 15, 2014

Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge: Location & Directions (Europe)

By Atlantic Council

Getting There The event will take place at the at the Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG) located at 17 Rue de Varembé, in Geneva, Switzerland. By bus or tram CICG is located right next to les Nations square with several public transportation connections. E.g. tram 15 has its final stop at les Nations and […]

Cybersecurity

Cyber 9/12 Project

Dec 15, 2014

Atlantic Council Opens Registration for 2015 Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge

By Atlantic Council

The challenge remains the only student competition devoted to national security policy recommendations for responses during a major cyber incident. The competition is designed to offer students, across a wide range of academic disciplines, a better understanding of the policy challenges associated with cyber conflict.

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Corporate Strategy Forum

Dec 12, 2014

Innovation in Air Force Acquisition

By Atlantic Council

On Thursday, December 11, 2014, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security welcomed William LaPlante, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, and Ted Harshberger, vice president and director of Project AIR FORCE at the Rand Corporation. The topic of conversation was on “Innovation in Air Force Acquisition.” This was the latest event of […]

Defense Industrialist

Dec 9, 2014

The Unintended Consequences of Saving Lives

By James Hasik

Experiences with cruise missiles, MRAPs, and Iron Dome provide a warning about the F-35.    When and why do defense officials choose to procure equipment specifically to reduce wartime casualties? As recounted at a recent Cato Institute conference that I attended, there are competing answers attempting to explain why voters offer or withhold their support. Officials sometimes act […]

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Defense Industrialist

Dec 9, 2014

The Customer Is Not Always Right

By James Hasik

At a point, customer closeness becomes “the worst thing possible” for a 21st-century defense business.   At what point does acting and thinking like your customer pass the point of marginal value in defense contracting? Hiring those bobble-head retired flag officers as marketing representatives is clearly a widely valued strategy. In recent essay on “Assimilating Disruption, or Offboarding Innovation,” I […]

Drones Technology & Innovation

Defense Industrialist

Dec 5, 2014

Defense Contractors Are Not From Lake Wobegon.

By James Hasik

  Northrop Grumman will spend its cash buying back shares.   The board of Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC), the Wall Street Journal reports, has just authorized the company’s management to buy back $3 billion of shares next year. That means that the company will return $3 billion to its shareholders, rather than investing it in its own […]

Global Trade And The Americas

Dec 5, 2014

TTIP Action | December 2

By Global Business & Economics Program

  Donald Tusk Takes Office as President of the European Council“Both we and the Americans are responsible for the future of our relations. The year ahead will be crucial.”On December 1, former prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk replaced Herman van Rompuy as the President of the European Council. At the handover ceremony, he stressed […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

Defense Industrialist

Dec 3, 2014

Crowdsourcing the New New Thing?

By James Hasik

DARPA’s Adaptive Vehicle Make program shows the measured promise of innovative approaches for engineering innovative armaments.   Anyone up for designing a new swimming tank? For counterattacks against possible Chinese landings in that first island chain, the Japanese Army wants to buy 52 amphibious assault vehicles. The most likely candidate, according to Stars & Stripes this […]