Defense Supply Chain Analysis

May 26, 2021
Model-based systems engineering is emerging as a potential solution to aerospace’s slow, costly processes.
May 21, 2021
If the first quarter is any indication, A&D is about to throttle up share buybacks and dividend payments into afterburn.
May 14, 2021
Changing needs of military advantage will challenge traditional business practices.
Apr 30, 2021
Dave Calhoun is giving himself a dual mandate of returning Boeing to financial eminence while reinstalling engineering prowess. The gambit could decide the embattled company’s fate.
Apr 28, 2021
The cost to develop, sustain and operate the multibillion-dollar F-35 fighter is mounting, and senior House Democrats are pushing back.
Jan 15, 2021
A British aircraft parts supplier says it has halted supplies of fuel systems to Turkish unmanned aircraft OEM Baykar Makina after discovering the system had been used in Baykar’s Bayraktar TB2 combat unmanned air system.
Jan 14, 2021
The Pentagon on Jan. 13 formally unveiled the Trusted Capital Digital Marketplace, a network for preapproved U.S. investor groups to match with technology startups deemed interesting enough to U.S. national security agencies to guard against Chinese or other foreign investment stakes.
Jan 04, 2021
Michele Evans, the executive vice president for Aeronautics at Lockheed Martin, died on Jan. 1, the company said. 
Dec 28, 2020
Lockheed Martin announced on Dec. 28 that it had delivered 120 F-35As in 2020, a year complicated by supply chain disruptions of the program’s global production system.
Dec 21, 2020
The agreement on the all-cash transaction includes a $5 per share, pre-closing special dividends to Aerojet’s shareholders, reducing the post-dividend value of the deal to $4.6 billion.
Dec 16, 2020
Private equity firm Charger Investment Partners late Dec. 15 announced it had acquired a majority stake in Advanced Composite Products and Technology.
Nov 17, 2020
Additive manufacturing machine maker 3D Systems said it is on the verge of finishing one of the world’s largest, fastest most precise powder metal 3D printers for U.S. Army Research Laboratory use toward long-range munitions, helicopters, air and missile defenses.
Nov 05, 2020
The new chief executive of Kaman, which recently downsized to focus on aerospace and defense, expects to pursue mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and to implement a new business operating system to squeeze higher margins out of the supplier’s operations.