Defense
AM General’s Winning Bid For The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Makes No Sense. What’s Going On? (From Forbes) On February 9, the Army awarded AM General a production contract for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle that could be worth nearly 20 times the company's annual revenues. The award appears to have been made mainly on the basis of price, since the vehicle ...
TikTok Hearing Underscores Importance Of Big Tech Competition With China (From 1945) The recent Congressional hearing on the threat to the U.S. posed by TikTok underscored the powerful role that advanced technology in the hands of our competitors has on our economy, national security, government, and personal well-being. With more than ...
Biden Executive Order To Fight Cyber Threats Will Backfire (From RealClearDefense) The Biden administration has decided to implement Executive Order (EO) 13984, promulgated during the Trump years with the ponderous title “Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Act ...
Leidos CEO Roger Krone Looks Back On A Stellar Career, And Reflects On What He Has Learned (From Forbes) Retiring Leidos CEO Roger Krone is the living embodiment of how the defense industry has changed since Cold War days. When he joined General Dynamics in 1978 as a fledgling aerospace engineer, using drawing boards and punch cards was commonplace. Today ...
V-22 Osprey Production Is Headed For A Premature Shutdown If Congress Doesn’t Act (From Forbes) Boeing and Bell/Textron are approaching completion of their last CMV-22B Ospreys for the Navy. Unless Congress intervenes to buy more, the production line will shut down in 2025. There is good reason to believe the Navy has under-estimated how many of ...
Eastern European Nations Are Building New Economic And Security Structures (From 1945) The postwar order of Europe was built on a series of economic, political, and security pillars, but in recent years it has become clear that the foundations of those pillars have begun to shift. The economic preeminence of the West is being challenged ...
Why Leidos Believes It Is A Good Cultural Fit For The JADC2 Challenge (From Forbes) Under CEO Roger Krone, Leidos has fashioned itself as a different kind of defense contractor--not a hardware-centric builder of major weapons, but a software-centric product of the information age. The strategy has seemed to work well, and now the Pent ...
Oshkosh Protest Of Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Award Focuses On Price Realism And Risk (From Forbes) Oshkosh Corporation, the current manufacturer of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, has filed a protest of the Army's decision to award a follow-on production contract to rival AM General. Oshkosh argues that the pricing in the AM General proposal was s ...
Why GD’s Electric Boat Is A Pivotal Player In U.S. Security Plans (From Forbes) The Electric Boat unit of General Dynamics is a global leader in the design, engineering and integration of nuclear-powered submarines. That makes it especially relevant to U.S. security policy during an era of great-power competition. The Columbia-cla ...
The U.S. Army Needs To Add A Truck-Mounted Howitzer To Its Modernization Program (From 1945) The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the lethality of counter-battery fires and the need for artillery to be mobile in order to survive. The Army needs a truck-mounted 155mm capability, at least for the Stryker Brigade Combat Teams (SBCTs), as soon as p ...