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The transition of the US military from focusing on counterinsurgency to deterring and defeating great-power rivals will require vigorous modernization of US and allied military capabilities. The United States must harness cutting-edge Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, while simultaneously developing new capabilities and operational concepts to employ these technologies in tandem with existing legacy systems.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Defense Industrialist

Jul 28, 2016

Dry powder on stormy seas

By James Hasik

Several large contractors’ quarterly results may indicate a state change in their treatment of investable cash. For about fifteen years now, defense contractors have been reliably generating piles of cash. What to do with all that money? Assuredly, as I wrote in 2013, something with an incentive behind it—and that hasn’t meant investment. Back then, […]

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Defense Industrialist

Jul 24, 2016

Starting with the answer in procurement

By James Hasik

The USAF’s plans for new close support aircraft show an unusual willingness to move out quickly. Earlier this week, the Atlantic Council and other institutions around Washington were briefed on how the Air Force plans a two-phased approach to the recapitalization of its close air support (CAS) fleet. In the next two years, the USAF […]

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Defense Industrialist

Jul 14, 2016

An Arrow II for Canada?

By James Hasik

The RCAF’s divergent commitments to NORAD and NATO suggest that none of the fighters on offer are quite right for its needs. Canada’s Department of National Defence has had quite a time over the past two weeks at both the NATO Summit and the Farnborough Air Show. The DND is now preparing to deploy 450 […]

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Defense Industrialist

Jul 8, 2016

Tony Stark never sued his customer

By James Hasik

How should the military relate to billionaires who don’t follow its playbook? At the NewSpace 2016 conference in Seattle last month, a questioner in the audience wanted an opinion about “Jeff Bezos, Yuri Milner, Paul Allen, Richard Branson and Elon Musk: all of these billionaires, instead of buying yachts, are investing in space.” As panel moderator Alan […]

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Defense Industrialist

Jul 7, 2016

“We do not agree that hindsight is required.”

By James Hasik

The Chilcot Inquiry usefully recalls the bureaucratic failures of the fight against IEDs. The Chilcot Inquiry, the official British government investigation of the Iraq War, convened in November 2009. Just yesterday, more than six years on, Sir John and his fellow commissioners—Sir Lawrence Freedman, Sir Roderic Lyne, Baroness Usha Prashar, and the late Sir Martin Gilbert—published their […]

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Bremain vs Brexit

Jun 29, 2016

The British Army of the Vistula

By James Hasik

Concerns about the implications of Brexit to European security may be overblown. At the beginning of last week, as everyone else in the commentariat was commenting, I resolved myself not to comment on Brexit. But after a flurry of articles about Britain turning inward, I want everyone to calm down. Just yesterday, US Secretary of […]

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Defense Industrialist

Jun 22, 2016

The USAF’s flying coke machine

By James Hasik

The next attack aircraft may take a total rethinking of ground support. When a senior Air Force official offered me a correction some months ago, a Marine colonel friend of mine suggested that I “tell him to stop bothering you and to get back to trying to kill the A-10.” We may actually now be […]

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Captains of Industry Series

Jun 18, 2016

Can Aerospace and Defense Avoid US Automakers’ Mistakes?

By Steve Grundman

At the end of 2014, the CEO of naval shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries, Mike Petters, delivered an address at the Atlantic Council entitled, “Playing the Long Game”. In it, Petters made the case for the chief executive’s leadership antidote to what he called “the institutionalization of the short-term”: No. 1: You have to think that […]

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Captains of Industry Series

Jun 15, 2016

The Battlestar strategy

By James Hasik

The future of Big Space depends on the defensibility of big satellites. If big satellites continue to provide cost-effective and defensible concentrations of functionality, then Big Space will have a defensible position in the market.

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Defense Industrialist

Jun 10, 2016

Could Joint Strike Fighters really be a low-cost option?

By James Hasik

If they could just control enough drones, perhaps F-35s could make war affordable again. The Danish fighter competition is over, it would seem, as the parliament has officially approved a program for 27 F-35 Lightning IIs. As I noted last week, the purchase price remains indeterminate, so the Danish Defense Ministry may be seriously unprepared […]

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