Hasik on Navy Shipbuilder’s Layoffs

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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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Hasik on Navy Shipbuilder’s Layoffs

New Atlanticist
Oct 30, 2024

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

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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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Hasik on Navy Shipbuilder’s Layoffs

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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Jul 24, 2015

Hasik on Navy Shipbuilder’s Layoffs

By James Hasik

The Wall Street Journal quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Defense James Hasik on the US Navy’s largest shipbuilder announcing it will likely cut at least 1,500 staff over the next 18 months:

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Jul 24, 2015

What if there had never been a Joint Strike Fighter? (Part 1)

By James Hasik

The US Navy could have spent mad money on drones. This month, the US Marine Corps declared that its first squadron of F-35Bs had reached “initial operating capability”. That’s 21 years after the program first began as the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) program, 18 years after the first Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) design contracts […]

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Defense Industrialist

Jul 22, 2015

What’s your face-punched plan?

By James Hasik

Recovery from battlefield surprise requires more than fingers-crossed strategy. Last month, the Pentagon released the 2015 version of its National Military Strategy. As a real Pentagon strategist reminded me, the Pentagon doesn’t really post its real strategy on the Web as a PDF. But even this public relations exercise was disconcerting in its telegraphed inflexibility. The document waxes on about […]

Defense Industry Missile Defense

Defense Industrialist

Jul 17, 2015

Like Cars, Like Cargo Ships

By James Hasik

North Americans are really uneconomical shipbuilders, and their navies should demand better. Ford announced this week that the company will stop building small cars in Michigan, or anywhere in the States, as price pressure precludes paying workers what’s worth their while. Ford will build its new Lincoln Continental in Michigan, but that’s because the profit […]

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Defense Industrialist

Jul 14, 2015

Innovation? Yes—but sorry, I don’t have a requirement.

By Martin Neill

Pushing for innovation against existing challenges is unlikely to yield dramatic change. We need innovation! We need to look to non-traditional defense suppliers! How often have we heard that refrain? I did again in April, when US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter insisted in Palo Alto that “we need the creativity and innovation that comes from […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Jul 10, 2015

Selling Sikorsky—updated

By James Hasik

A Bell-Sikorsky combination could be too big for the Pentagon to handle. Bidding for Sikorsky, Reuters reports, rests now with Lockheed Martin and Textron. As noted here a few weeks ago, the tax implications remain daunting for United Technologies, particularly now that Textron’s proposed Reverse Morris Trust has elicited no interest. Spinoff does remain in […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

In the News

Jul 7, 2015

Nordenman: Sweden Struggles to Balance Defense Sales, Rights Concerns

By Magnus Nordenman

Brent Scowcroft Center Deputy Director Magnus Nordenman writes for World Politics Review on the tensions between Sweden’s arms export business and its desire to respect human rights abroad:

Defense Industry Northern Europe

Defense Industrialist

Jun 30, 2015

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, […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Jun 29, 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 […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

In the News

Jun 25, 2015

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:

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