Writing in Aviation Week & Space Technology, Steve Grundman offers his critique of the many worried assessments giving “soberingly low marks” to the fitness of the defense industry. He wonders if a tendency to focus on diseased trees, so to speak, may… Read more »
Writing in Aviation Week & Space Technology, Steve Grundman considers the application to the defense industry of Professor Richard Rumelt’s guideposts for analyzing industry-wide change. In three of them–rising fixed costs, government policy, and what Rumelt calls the revelation of… Read more »
Writing in Aviation Week & Space Technology, Steve Grundman employs marketing guru Theodore Levitt’s famous query, “What business are you really in?”, to consider the defense industry’s readiness to address the military’s transition to a new way of war. Prodding them… Read more »
The pandemic has accustomed us to living in virtual worlds and hearing speculation about the ways in which our actual lives may never resume as before. Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently said that he believes “over 50 percent of business… Read more »
Writing in Aviation Week & Space Technology, Steve Grundman explores what he learned as an Army lieutenant on the Cold War’s “Frontier of Freedom” that has bearing on whether any virtual reality can mediate the premium work of enterprise leadership. “Once… Read more »
Writing in Aviation Week & Space Technology, Steve Grundman takes up the challenge of how the U.S. can meet the military-strategic challenges it faces at acceptable levels of risk within the constraints of a bipartisan consensus that national defense spending is… Read more »
Writing in Aviation Week & Space Technology, Steve Grundman spells out his expectations for the trend of US defense spending under a Democratic government in 2021. Affirming what he regards as a bipartisan commitment to sustaining the current level of… Read more »
Writing in Aviation Week & Space Technology, Steve Grundman cites a recent survey of the Reagan Foundation to observe a strikingly low salience and understanding of foreign and defense policy concerns in the minds of most Americans. He attributes these… Read more »
Writing in the Up Front column of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Steve Grundman uses the occasion of the Quadrennial Conference of the National Technology Industrial Base to underscore how much works remains to achieve a seamless integration of the industrial… Read more »
Writing in the Up Front column of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Steve Grundman explains how the announced merger confirms a sharp change in our outlook on both the defense and civil airliner markets and establishes a bellwether of new… Read more »