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The list is here: Find out how global defense companies performed in FY20
We reveal who’s up and who’s down for 2021, based on fiscal 2020 defense revenue.
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Editorial
‘Drone Wars’: New book wonders who will be the next drone superpower
Victory in the next major conflict could very well depend on the effectiveness of drones — from their swarm capabilities to their surveillance and artificial intelligence technologies.
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Australia is suffering from a defense information dearth
Defense reporting in a country that regards itself as one of the world’s most stable democracies has became a lot harder.
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A fake story about the secretary of defense stole my real byline
It looked like a Defense News story but the truth was this meme was full of lies and intent on spreading misinformation.
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We need less jargon, more nuance in 2021
Can we please do better than making acronyms like CJADC2?
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Even a pandemic can’t stunt geopolitics
This year's Outlook authors were, understandably, unable to ignore the coronavirus pandemic. But the spread of a disease did not distract them from the affairs of geopolitics.
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Shipbuilding: Here today, gone tomorrow
Industry well remembers the 1990s when costs drove the Navy to slash the Seawolf-class sub order from 29 hulls to just three, with no immediate replacement vesse ready to keep the lines hot.
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When the challenge of coronavirus becomes a catalyst to change
Military leaders for years have said they value agility. Now they will get to watch firsthand which firms are prepared for the long term, who adapts and who merely talks about adapting.
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When a global health crisis hits home
At the start, this was a health care crisis certainly, an economic crisis potentially. Now it's clear that no market is unaffected, and I join the rest of the world in wondering where the defense industry will land.
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Take that, Trump: Why Amazon can afford to be defiant
If President Donald Trump figuratively declared war on Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, and by extension Amazon, the approach taken for the JEDI contract award protest the head of Amazon Web Services declaring war on the president.
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A new future in global arms sales?
The last few years have seen a subtle transition in how the U.S., as the world’s dominant arms exporter, markets to the world.
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Why not Microsoft? A look at the JEDI contract
Conspiracy theories abound around the decision by the Pentagon to award to Microsoft the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.
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One step forward, two back
The latest news on the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle project doesn’t exactly fall neatly within that inspirational vision of a new approach to Army acquisition.
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US policy toward Ukraine gets more complicated
Ukraine is in a desperate situation amid the ongoing debate about whether supplying the country with arms could make a tense situation worse.
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A tale of two future fighters
There’s a tale of two fighters underway in Europe. And countries — and their companies — are choosing sides.
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Wait, where are all the women?
Not including our own editorial team, we have only three women participating in the Defense News Conference. Candidly, that’s pretty unacceptable.
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Finding a safe place for big ideas at the Pentagon
Placement of an office toward the top echelon at the Pentagon doesn’t prompt success.
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China is watching
Obviously, global perception shouldn’t define U.S. policy. But if we talk about how today’s rhetoric might be interpreted by allies, which we do, we certainly should consider how it might be interpreted by adversaries.
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What’s left in the dust of a massive merger?
If you’re not really big, and you’re not categorically small, then you’re going to have a harder time competing.
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Maybe alliance tensions could land us in a better place
The European Union is touting merits of its efforts to fund members in defense efforts, after NATO criticisms.
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Can we really get Europe to cut the Russia cord? It’s complicated.
The theory is that the European Recapitalization Incentive Program, or ERIP, will help six nations (start to) get off Russian equipment, while increasing the sale of U.S. weapon systems abroad in the process. A win-win, for the United States. But perhaps more nuanced for its European allies.
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Is this a JEDI mind trick?
I don’t question industry’s ability to develop a secure, capable cloud infrastructure for the Pentagon. I do question how on earth the Pentagon screwed up the competition so badly.
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Let these Pentagon leaders do their job
If government is going to restrict these individuals from tapping their expertise or create proverbial muzzles that prevent or dissuade them from performing, then why are they there in the first place?
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Pentagon’s Jason group is not worth mourning
While a rather novel concept in the 1960s, it's not so much today.
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Let’s talk about what it actually means to be a small business
If you caught the Twitter storm from Anduril's Trae Stephens earlier this week, you would have discovered that the definition of a small business should require more thought than perhaps the Pentagon is bothering to invest.
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As DoD looks to go big on modern warfare, watch industry plant flags
They always do, and quite expertly. But the situation these companies face now is a little different.
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