Aviation Week publishes Grundman Viewpoint on Innovation in Aerospace and Defense
3 September 2012Writing 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 »
Grundman cited in Defense News, “SAIC To Spin Off Services Business”
3 September 2012Services businesses tend to . . . achieve a smaller return than systems businesses, leading to what can be a complicated picture for investors when both exist in the same company, said Steven Grundman, the Lund Fellow at the Atlantic… Read more »
National Interest Publishes Opinion, “Euro Crisis Threatens Global Security”
28 June 2012“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,” wrote the Irish poet William Butler Yeats of the dark time he envisioned in the aftermath of World War I. Today, the converse of this proposition overshadows our future: if Europe fails to… Read more »
Grundman cited in Defense News, “Dispute Brews Over Changes To Commercial Acquisition Process”
21 May 2012“This is all about how do we make sure that we’re paying a fair and reasonable price,” [said Shay Assad, the Pentagon’s director of defense procurement and acquisition policy]. “It’s that simple. There’s nothing beyond it”. But beyond the issue of… Read more »
Grundman cited in Defense News, “Companies Turn Toward Diversification”
16 April 2012The prevailing wisdom of the last downturn was best articulated by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, who said that the defense industry’s record of diversification was “unblemished by success”. “We way over learned that lesson,” said Steve Grundman, Lund… Read more »
Grundman interviewed on Federal News Radio, In Depth with Francis Rose
4 April 2012The latest strike against the F-35 fighter jet program is coming from north of the border. The Canadian government is reevaluating its plan to buy the jets following the release of a government auditor’s report that found flaws in the… Read more »
Grundman cited in Defense News, “Small Companies Navigate Contract-Bundling Challenges”
2 April 2012However, the effects of bundling are not one-sided, said Steve Grundman, a fellow at the Atlantic Council. “Bundling is the proverbial two-edged sword for small business,” he said. “On the one edge is the concern that the scope and scale… Read more »
Grundman moderates panel discussion of Better Buying Power at Wharton Aerospace
16 March 2012At the ninth annual Wharton Aerospace Conference on March 16th in Philadelphia, Steve Grundman moderated a Community of Practice panel appraising the significance of the U.S. Department of Defense’s “Better Buying Power” initiative to improve outcomes in its acquisition management… Read more »
Atlantic Council appoints Grundman the Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges
12 March 2012The Atlantic Council of the United States today announced that it has appointed Steven Grundman as its first M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges. As Lund Fellow, Steve will be responsible for establishing and building a practice… Read more »
Grundman interviewed on Federal News Radio, In Depth with Francis Rose
1 March 2012Cuts in the defense budget may be coming, but one expert thinks they’re coming a lot faster than anyone on Capitol Hill or the Pentagon is talking about. Steven Grundman, a principal at Grundman Advisory, joined In Depth with Francis… Read more »