CRA publishes Grundman and Roncka on “Defense-21: Drivers of Change in the 21st Century”
1 May 2010It 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 »
CRA publishes Armitage and Grundman on “What to Do with the Cash: Of Gates, Tracks, and Signals”
1 March 2010Faced 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 »
CRA publishes Grundman et al. on “Innovation in Aerospace and Defense”
1 February 2010In 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 »
CRA publishes Grundman on “Putting Hard Times into Perspective”
1 September 2009Like 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 »
CRA publishes Casiez, Grundman, and Peoples on “Obama and National Security: The First 100 Days”
1 May 2009CRA Vice President and Global Director of Aerospace & Defense Consulting Steve Grundman recently spoke at the SpeedNews 7th Annual A&D Industry Suppliers Conference about the national security priorities revealed by the Obama Administration in the course of their first… Read more »
Aviation Week publishes Viewpoint by Grundman entitled, “Dear Mr. President-elect: The Other U.S. Defense Crises”
15 December 2008Barack Obama was elected 44th president of the United States on a promise of “change”. So in the weeks leading up to his inauguration, the editors of Aviation Week & Space Technology invited leaders in aerospace to write open letters to the… Read more »
CRA publishes Grundman on “Six Watchwords for 2009”
1 December 2008CRA Vice President and Global Director of Aerospace & Defense Consulting Steve Grundman recently spoke at the SpeedNews 7th Annual A&D Industry Suppliers Conference about the national security priorities revealed by the Obama Administration in the course of their first… Read more »
CRA publishes Grundman on “Top Aerospace and Defense Programs”
13 November 2008With the change in the US Presidential Administration and a domestic economic crisis making vast claims on federal funding, many observers are handicapping the prospects of the Pentagon’s major defense acquisition programs. In November, CRA presented its perspective on the… Read more »