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Courtney Spivey Urschel

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Human Rights Middle East

Fellow

Priya Pillai

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Africa Conflict

Fellow

Joshua Hotvet

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Rolando Mattar

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Tom Wotka

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Kalle Meehan

Women Leader in Energy and Climate Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment
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Defense Industrialist

Oct 8, 2013

Full, Open, and Unhelpful

By James Hasik

On Paring Back Clearance Lists for ID/IQ Contracts At our inaugural Captains of Industry event last week, Excelis CEO Dave Melcher had a few sound ideas for the folks who run procurement policy at the Pentagon. I’ve been reading over those, and one which stood out concerned the Defense Department’s current approach to indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity […]

Captains of Industry Series

Oct 2, 2013

Melcher Discusses the Business of Defense in an Age of Austerity

On October 2nd, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security launched the Atlantic Council Captains of Industry series, a forum for leaders of major defense contractors to discuss their plans for navigating the new realities facing their businesses. The first speaker was David Melcher, CEO and president of Excelis, a $5.5 billion global aerospace, defense, […]

Defense Industrialist

Oct 2, 2013

Chinese Anti-Aircraft Missiles for Turkey? Some Implications for Security and Industry

By James Hasik

On Friday, the Turkish government announced that China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CPMIEC) had won the country’s T-LORAMIDS program for a new, long-range, high-altitude air defense system. The company’s FD-2000, the export version of its HQ-9, appears to have beaten Raytheon’s Patriot, Almaz-Antey’s S-400, and Eurosam’s SAMP-T (with land-based Aster 30 Block 1s) […]

China Turkey

Captains of Industry Series

Oct 2, 2013

Transcript: The Business of Defense in an Age of Austerity

On October 2nd, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security launched the Atlantic Council Captains of Industry series, a forum for leaders of major defense contractors to discuss their plans for navigating the new realities facing their businesses. The first speaker was David Melcher, CEO and president of Excelis, a $5.5 billion global aerospace, defense, and information […]

Defense Industrialist

Sep 30, 2013

What Do Steve Ballmer and Ray Odierno Have in Common?

By James Hasik

I mentioned Apple and Microsoft the other day, in the context of innovation, and writing that reminded me of another useful comparison in defense.  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced his pending retirement back in August, and in the week thereafter, a slew of periodicals wrote about how his departure couldn’t possibly be bad for the company. Perhaps […]

Defense Industrialist

Sep 27, 2013

What to Do with All That Cash? Assuredly, Something with an Incentive Behind It

By James Hasik

For several years now, we’ve been hearing a chorus of laments about how military contractors have been deploying their excess cash. Heck, we’ve probably contributed to that noise on occasion. For some time now, seemingly the reflexive choices have been dividends, special dividends, and share buybacks—all means of returning that cash to shareholders. While this attention […]

Defense Industrialist

Sep 25, 2013

Returns to Scale? A Cautionary Note on the Value of Smallness in the Defense Industry

By James Hasik

In our inaugural comment, we noted that since the 1990s, we’ve been hearing about the need for rationalization and integration in the defense industry. The reason, whether supported by hard analysis or just common narrative, is that all those companies in Europe and North America simply have too much capacity chasing too few programs. That capacity […]

Defense Industrialist

Sep 23, 2013

Our Introduction to the Defense Industrialist

By James Hasik

If you work in or around the business of defense—whether in industry or in government procurement—you’ve likely heard many times that yours is a unique market. Your study of Econ 101 had to be followed by Defense 102: monopsonists, oligopolists, complex technologies, and fundamentally unquantifiable risks. Your grasp of business has required reinforcement with hefty […]

Event Recap

Sep 16, 2013

Workshop on Extended Deterrence in Northeast Asia

On September 16, 2013 the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted an off-the-record workshop on extended deterrence in Northeast Asia with the leading experts in the field, hosted by Barry Pavel, vice president and director of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security of the Atlantic Council, and Richard Armitage, president of […]

East Asia

Libya Working Group

Sep 12, 2013

Washington Post Highlights Letter to Kerry on Libya

By MENASource

One year since the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, the Washington Post’s editorial board has cautioned against a US special forces raid in Libya to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Libya
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