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The Next Frontier Of Military Communications (From Army Technology) Lexington Institute’s Loren Thompson and his September 2018 Forbes column are quoted in Andrew Tunnicliffe’s Army Technology article about modernizing the military communications field. “The basic idea was to field a family of radios and waveforms that ...
Trump Fears Raytheon-UTC Deal Hurts Competition. Not So Fast, Analyst Says (From Washington Business Journal) Lexington Institute’s Loren Thompson responds to President Trump’s concerns about the lack of competition with a Raytheon-United Technologies Corporation merger in a Washington Business Journal article. His June 10 Forbes column was also referenced. Th ...
United Technologies, Raytheon Are in Deal Talks (From Bloomberg) Lexington Institute’s Loren Thompson commented on the merger between United Technologies and Raytheon for Bloomberg. “Clearly, Greg Hayes has decided that he wants to fashion the biggest aerospace and defense enterprise in the world” Thompson told Blo ...
Postal Regulator Urges ‘Greater Mission Clarity’ For USPS In Upcoming Business Plan (From Federal News Network) Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler comments in Federal News Network on the Postal Service’s forthcoming business plan. Steidler said defining the Universal Service Obligation (USO) would likely bring about a “much smaller Postal service,” but would ri ...
LETTER: The U.S. Postal Service And Budget Gimmicks (From Las Vegas Review-Journal) Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler wrote a letter to the editor for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, responding to an op-ed from U.S. Postal Service spokesperson David Partenheimer, who claimed the Postal Service is “efficient” and not a burden to taxpay ...
Navy’s ‘Extra-Large’ Attack Drone On Track; 50-Ton ‘Orca’ Built By Boeing (From The Washington Times) Lexington Institute’s Kris Osborn and his WarriorMaven article from May 31 are quoted in an article from The Washington Times about the “Orca” attack drone. “Extra Large UUVs, such as Boeing’s Orca, are certainly large enough to accommodate weapons pay ...
F-35 Program With Hundreds Of Jobs Gets OK To Move To Wright-Patt (Dayton Daily News) Lexington Institute’s Loren Thompson comments on the decision to move an F-35 management program to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, in an article for the Dayton Daily News. Thompson called the news “a major day for the base and the Dayton area ...
Why the (Almost) Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier Is Not Obsolete (PJ Media) In an article by Stephen Green for PJ Media, Lexington Institute’s Loren Thompson and his May 21 Forbes column about carriers are quoted at length, which Green calls a “spot on” analysis. “Deployed carriers are always moving. And they are moving fast—f ...
It’s Time, Finally, For The Postal Service To Figure Out What Its Products Cost To Deliver (Townhall) A Townhall column by Brian McNicoll on problems facing the United States Postal Service quotes from Lexington Institute Paul Steidler’s January 2019 Op-Ed for InsideSources. Steidler says it is important to replace old “attributable cost” methodologies ...
Jones Act Vital To Keeping America Safe | Opinion (The Inquirer) An article on the Jones Act for The Inquirer references Lexington Institute’s Loren Thompson’s October 2017 column for Forbes. As Thompson writes, “the bottom line is the Jones Act provides major national security benefits that critics seldom acknowled ...