Acquisition Trends, 2018: Defense Contract Spending Bounces Back
This analysis provides critical insights into understanding the current trends in the defense industrial base and the implications of those trends on acquisition policy.
Tag: Private Sector
Will Business Expertise Reform The Pentagon? Fuggedaboutit!
Will DOD implement the long-awaited series of management reforms that last year’s National Defense Strategy announced? Probably not.
The Pentagon Shouldn’t Be a Landlord
Recent reports of unsafe conditions and unresponsive repair services require immediate action by the Defense Department to fix the problems—but not kill the program.
Don’t Worry, Defense Industry: Boeing Has Not Taken Over The Pentagon
With Deputy Secretary Patrick Shanahan now the acting Secretary of Defense, there has been some hyperventilating about whether Boeing has the inside track in the Pentagon. Industry can relax.
Bad Idea: Expecting the Private Sector to Drive Innovation in National Security
It’s bipartisan Washington gospel that America’s private sector will deliver the innovation the country needs. However, at the front-end of an era of rapid, disruptive technological change in which global competition is heating up, such expectation is increasingly a bad idea without a far more strategic, centralized, and White House-driven approach to the challenges ahead.