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Say the name Lockheed Martin and listeners might immediately think of the F-22 Raptor, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Aegis air and missile defense system, military satellites, ballistic missiles and space launch systems. Lockheed also happens to be one of the nation’s premier IT and cyber security
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Date:
9/11/2012
The defense industry will need to consolidate if demand for its products continues softening in the years ahead. Because Pentagon policymakers are ill-disposed to managing sector rationalization, it will probably be driven by who wins or loses the handful of big programs that are still up for grabs.
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8/28/2012
After suffering a near-death experience on Capitol Hill last year, the Army's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is starting to look like a program with a bright future. On August 22 the service announced fixed-price contract awards to three industry teams that now must compete for the right to
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Date:
8/24/2012
Defense budgets are almost certain to decline significantly over the next decade no matter who is in the White House. Should sequestration take place, it will be difficult for the Department of Defense (DoD) to structure a coherent defense program. But even without sequestration, DoD will have to
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Date:
6/4/2012
In the opinion of many defense analysts, the Pentagon's new defense strategy severely disadvantages the U.S. Army. The strategy both rejects the idea of future protracted, large-scale stability operations and shifts the focus of security concerns to the Asia-Pacific region where air and sea forces are
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Date:
1/24/2012
Over the past several years, the relationship between the Department of Defense (DoD) and private industry has grown increasingly strained. In part, this is a consequence of efforts by the Pentagon to control the rising costs associated with the acquisition of new weapons systems and the sustainment
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Date:
12/9/2011
Army leaders suddenly realized last summer that their planned replacement for the Humvee was in danger of being killed by Congress. The Government Accountability Office was estimating each of the so-called Joint Light Tactical Vehicles might cost $350,000, and that's not even counting on-board
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Date:
10/24/2011
The latest Army-Marine Corps solicitation for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) replacement of the Humvee isn't a refinement of the previous approach, it's a whole new competition. The terms contained in the solicitation rearrange contractor incentives in a way that is likely to lead to the
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Date:
10/13/2011
The Army has just published its long-anticipated Request for Proposal (RFP) for the next phase of its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program. The JLTV was intended initially to replace the venerable Humvee while improving on that system’s survivability and performance. At the same time, the
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Date:
10/4/2011
The U.S. Army has remarkably little to show for the hundreds of billions of dollars it has spent on modernization since 9-11. Its helicopter fleet is in reasonably good shape because the service decided to keep buying systems like the Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook that had already proven themselves,
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Date:
9/28/2011