Aviation Week publishes, “Passing Grade: The US Defense Industrial Base is More Fit than Frail”, a commentary by Steve Grundman that takes stock of widespread hand-wringing over the health of the defense-industrial base and concludes the glass is at worst half full.
26 January 2022Writing 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 »
Aviation Week publishes, “Guideposts of Defense Industry Change”, a commentary by Steve Grundman which uses the backdrops of the summer’s messy withdrawal from Afghanistan to explore “how waves of change can suddenly culminate into an inflection that resets the foundation in which a strategic posture, of companies as well as nations, gets disrupted.”
13 September 2021Writing 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 »
Aviation Week publishes, “New Strategic Imperatives For The Defense Industry”, a commentary by Steve Grundman that employs marketing guru Theodore Levitt’s famous query, “What business are you really in?”, to consider the defense industry’s readiness to service the military’s transition to a new way of war.
14 May 2021Writing 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 »
Aviation Week publishes “Why the Future Will Not Be Virtual”, a commentary by Steve Grundman that explains what leaders should do once the pandemic has past.
3 February 2021Writing 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 »
Aviation Week publishes “Efficiencies Alone Cannot Solve U.S. Defense Budget Crunch”, a commentary by Steve Grundman which recommends an agenda to increase the productivity of defense spending.
23 October 2020Writing 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 »
Aviation Week publishes “Can The Pentagon Spend More Smartly?”, a commentary by Steve Grundman that explains his outlook for defense spending.
10 August 2020Writing 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 »
Grundman Advisory publishes an update to its map of “Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services Mergers & Acquisitions”.
1 June 2020Steve Grundman is pleased to announce publication of an update of the M&A “map”. The new version adds several companies and is current for transactions that have been consummated through the end of April 2020. Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services… Read more »
Aviation Week publishes “Helping Citizens Better Grasp The Warfighter Experience”, a commentary by Steve Grundman about the particularly weak foundation for how Americans relate to defense and foreign policies and what might be done about it.
29 November 2019Writing 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 »
Aviation Week publishes “Allies Matter”, a commentary by Steve Grundman which makes the case for why the U.S. can’t go it alone on defense-industrial strategy
11 September 2019Writing 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 »
Aviation Week publishes “Back to the Future”, a commentary by Steve Grundman about the proposed merger of United Technologies and Raytheon and what it tells us about the aerospace industry
27 June 2019Writing 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 »