PowerPoint guys versus bean counters

EnergySource Nov 14, 2024

Europe’s new industrial plan faces formidable obstacles

By Andrei Covatariu

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has promised to put forth in her second term a new Clean Industrial Deal to mobilize investment in infrastructure and industry, and reduce dependence on energy imports. But energy supply challenges and geopolitical hurdles risk undermining plans to restore Europe’s industrial competitiveness.
Defense Industry Energy & Environment
PowerPoint guys versus bean counters

New Atlanticist Oct 30, 2024

In defense of Draghi’s defense idea: Three models for a centralized defense procurer for the EU

By Thomas Goldstein

Only a European defense procurer can provide the institutional reform to overcome intra- and intergovernmental paralysis and invest at scale.
Defense Industry Defense Policy
PowerPoint guys versus bean counters

New Atlanticist Oct 28, 2024

The US needs a stronger defense industrial base. Option contracts can help.

By Michael Hogan

The US government would pay a premium on current orders, but it would then have the option to purchase a larger amount within a fixed timeframe.
Defense Industry Defense Policy

Content

Defense Industrialist

Sep 21, 2015

PowerPoint guys versus bean counters

By James Hasik

The battle for the soul of the American military, part 1 Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, who is now running for president, wants a bigger Army, a bigger Navy, and a bigger Marine Corps: 50 brigades, 300 to 350 ships, and 36 battalions. How would she pay for it? The debate at which she […]

Defense Industry Defense Policy
Hasikgrah

Defense Industrialist

Sep 8, 2015

If a Weapon Were a Three-Piece Suit

By Steven Grundman

Think of defense contracting in four distinct market types. Several recent headlines— “Senators Call For Oversight On LRS-B Cost Estimates” “Oshkosh Wins JLTV Award” “Kendall ‘Open-Minded’ On Sharing RD-180 Replacement Costs” “Can Secretary Carter win over Silicon Valley?” —got me thinking about menswear and defense acquisition and why they are both so persistently difficult. It’s the […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Sep 2, 2015

From Germany, With Love

By Magnus Nordenman

European arms sellers are helping shape Asian security. Washington worries increasingly about developments in the Asia-Pacific region. The Pentagon has done more than publish a maritime strategy for that part of the world—it has begun to shift military assets that way. Yet it is often said that this is a region in which Washington will […]

Defense Industry Indo-Pacific

Defense Industrialist

Sep 1, 2015

Not such a silly fly-off

By James Hasik

An A-10C versus F-35A experiment could be edifying, if designed well. Politico Pro and Bloomberg have been reporting of late that the Pentagon’s Office of Test & Evaluation (OT&E) is planning a series of head-to-head close air support tests between the A-10C and the F-35A. USAF Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh had previously called […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Aug 28, 2015

JLTV—Going slow to go fast

By James Hasik

A conversation with John Bryant of Oshkosh Defense  Yesterday morning I had the opportunity to sit down with John Bryant, a senior vice president at Oshkosh Defense, to talk about his company’s big win this week. Before retiring from the Marines, the colonel was an acquisition program manager; afterwards, he taught program management at the […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Aug 26, 2015

JLTV

By James Hasik

If it can hold on, Oshkosh’s win may restructure the military truck industry. The US Army and the US Marine Corps have chosen their supplier for Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs), their replacement for Humvees, and supplement to MRAP All Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs). For now, and presumably the next decade, that supplier is Wisconsin’s Oshkosh […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

In the News

Aug 23, 2015

Hasik on the US Military’s New Tactical Vehicles

By James Hasik

Defense News quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow James Hasik on what Lockheed Martin could gain if the US Army awards them the contract for the new Joint Light Tactical Vehicles:

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Aug 21, 2015

Every citizen a sensor

By James Hasik

NATO needs more tiny technologies for hybrid warfare. Our experience with counterinsurgency is not done, David Petraeus once said, because insurgents are not done. Some of those recently have been state-sponsored and Russian-speaking, but those highly empowered and malevolent insurgents have been wreaking havoc around the world with the tools of “Democratized Destruction.” Two can play that game, but in […]

Defense Industry NATO

Defense Industrialist

Aug 20, 2015

Kasich wants carriers

By James Hasik

A fleet of fifteen Fords is infeasible, but smaller ships could be added fast. On Saturday, Newport News Shipbuilding will hold a keel-laying ceremony for USS John F. Kennedy, the second of the Gerald Ford-class carriers. Ohio Governor John Kasich is running for president, and he wants yet more aircraft carriers. About five more super-carriers, though […]

China Defense Industry

Emerging Defense Challenges

Aug 14, 2015

Grundman on Top Defense News

By Steven Grundman

M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges Steven Grundman joins In Depth with Francis Rose on Federal News Radio to discuss the threat of Boeing jobs moving to other countries, the replication of the RD-180, and Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s purchase of Precision Castparts Corp:

Defense Industry Security & Defense
Load More

Experts

Staff

Alexander Young

Project Assistant

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Europe & Eurasia

Fellow

Jongsun Kim

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

Fellow

Hannah Hunt

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Technologies

Fellow

Owen J. Daniels

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

Fellow

Tom Mancinelli

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoStrategy Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

Fellow

Justina Budginaite-Froehly

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Europe Center Transatlantic Security Initiative

Defense Industry European Union
Load More