Writing in Aviation Week’s Viewpoint column, Steve Grundman considers the significance for innovation in aerospace and defense of a series entitled “How Japan Lost Its Electronics Crown” that appeared recently in the Wall Street Journal. Grundman believes the stories offer a cautionary tale… Read more »
The global aerospace, defense, and government services markets and supplier base have evolved considerably during the past decade and a half. Mergers and acquisitions have played a large role in this transition, and CRA’s map helps tell this narrative. The… Read more »
In response to an expectation of increasing constraints on US defense spending, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has announced several initiatives to improve operating efficiency and control budgeted costs. One such set of initiatives was outlined by Under Secretary of… Read more »
At a press conference in September 2010, then-US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and his acquisition executive, Ashton Carter, announced Carter’s issuance of direction for how the Pentagon would set out to achieve productivity growth in its acquisition of weapons… Read more »
How should the aerospace and defense industry think strategically about the attention now being focused on securing “the Commons”? The prevailing conceptions of this problem are associated with two distinct customer perspectives, neither of which is well suited to informing… Read more »
It has become a conventional wisdom that the defense industry is crossing an inflection point, which is changing its business in fundamental ways. CRA set out to test that proposition by examining what has changed and how, as well as… Read more »
Faced with strengthening balance sheets, expectations of slower growth in core markets, and recovering share prices, defense companies in 2010 were facing the seemingly enviable strategic challenge of “what to do with the cash?” In this issue of CRA Insights first… Read more »
In July 2009, Aviation Week hosted an Executive Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was attended by leaders from across the aerospace and defense industry. Aviation Week designed this summit to address the issues thought most critical to the… Read more »
Charles River Associates was a proud sponsor of the conference on “Challenges and Opportunities in Transatlantic Defence Industrial Co-operation.” The conference was co-organized by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and it was… Read more »
Like many sectors of the economy, the aerospace and defense industry marked the end of the first decade of the 21st century as a major inflection point in its post-Cold-War evolution. The global economic recession drove growth in the production… Read more »