Category: Content Series

For Faster R&D, Restore Rivalry and Realism.

By James Hasik

In AvWeek, Bill Sweetman pines for another Polaris program. Here’s how to recapture the magic.  In last week’s issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Bill Sweetman observes (“Does the Pentagon give contractors an incentive for slow R&D?”) how the same US Defense Department that had put a nuclear submarine to sea with sixteen long-range nuclear-tipped ballistic […]

Best-Value is a No-Brainer, Dual-Sourcing Not So Much.

By James Hasik

Jacques Gansler’s editorial in the NYT skirts the challenges of competing every contract Jacques Gansler’s editorial in yesterday’s New York Times appropriately laments the Pentagon’s drift away from real competition in contracting, and prescribes two sequential solutions: initial competition on price and quality, but subsequent re-competition on price. In supply chain management, the former is called best-value contracting, the latter dual-sourcing. Both […]

Does the Defense Budget Ignore the Defense Industrial Base?

By James Hasik

Not hardly. Jet engines are just its most promising story Monday’s announcement of the 2015 US Defense Budget request made exactly one explicit mention of the defense industrial base. One billion dollars is to be invested, Secretary Hagel said, towards developing A promising next-generation jet engine technology, which we expect to produce sizable cost-savings through reduced fuel […]

Strengthening the US-Japan Alliance

On February 26, 2014, the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security held a not-for-attribution roundtable briefing on the US-Japan alliance and what it portends for US extended deterrence in Asia. The briefing featured Mira Rapp-Hooper, Stanton nuclear security fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was presided over by project co-chair Richard […]

What We’re Reading: February 25

By Global Business

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

How the Saudi Sale will Sustain GDLS in North America

By James Hasik

$10 billion of Canadian armored vehicles should alleviate American concerns about the industrial base The huge news in the industry last week was huge contract that General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) Canada won in Saudi Arabia. Only governmental announcements and filings in Canada and the US have revealed the identity of that buyer, as the terms of […]