Defense Industry

How M&A is Remaking Aerospace & Defense

By Steven Grundman

The emerging wave of consolidation is yielding more diverse competitive dynamics than emerged from the post-Cold-War restructuring. Five years beyond the inflection marked by the Great Recession’s bottom and Iraq War’s end, the market for mergers and acquisitions in aerospace and defense is finally heating up and taking shape. At this halfway point through 2015, […]

Cases, Cables, and Kernels

By James Hasik

A role is emerging for small firms that connect defense to commercial technologies. On his recent pilgrimage to Silicon Valley, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter tried hard to stoke enthusiasm amongst commercial software firms for working with the Pentagon. So far, they’re not buying the pitch. To start, they’re just not interested in ten percent […]

Grundman: How M&A is Remaking Aerospace

By Steven Grundman

M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges Steven Grundman writes for Aviation Weekly on how mergers and acquisitions are changing the aerospace and defense industries:

Selling Sikorsky

By James Hasik

Should structure or conduct drive the Pentagon’s supply strategy? The bids for Sikorsky are in. For United Technologies CEO Greg Hayes, they’re “at least as good as what we had hoped to see.” By the rumors, they’re from Blackstone, Lockheed Martin, Textron, and Airbus. With such a heterogenous set of bidders, a range of strategic and financial considerations are driving the offers. The tax implications are […]

Coming to America: Global Suppliers for Defense and Security

Please join the Atlantic Council on June 24 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for a special event in its Captains of Industry Series on Wednesday, when a panel of four chief executives will convene to discuss how foreign-owned companies address the opportunities and challenges of their participation in the business of defense and security in […]

Hasik on Oshkosh’s Military Contract

By James Hasik

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow James Hasik on Oshkosh Corp landing a military contract, worth up to $780 million, that will support hundreds of jobs:

Bug Hunt or Stand-up Fight?

By James Hasik

Textron’s Scorpion wins on the economics. The politics need some attention. Instead of attending the Paris Air Show this week, I found myself sitting on the couch the other night, watching Iron Man 2 with the kids. As Justin Hammer introduced his squadrons of nearly-identical killer robots (er, drones) for “the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines”, I […]

Defense-Industrial Policy Series: Modernizing Army Acquisition

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Please join the Atlantic Council on June 10, 2015 form 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. for a conversation with The Hon. Heidi Shyu, Assistant Secretary of Army, Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, US Department of Defense.