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National Defense March 2015 Sandra Erwin	Defense Department Takes Steps to Energize Cutting-Edge Research The Defense Department is reorganizing its technology shop as it tries to light a fire under its science programs.
National Defense January 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	DoD Clashes With Suppliers Over Data Rights The clash pits military buyers who want to break up suppliers' monopolies against companies whose livelihood depends on keeping tight control over their designs.
National Defense October 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	The War Over Intellectual Property: Who Owns U.S. Defense Technology? For some companies, it can be a serious dilemma: Turn over valuable intellectual property and trust the government to protect it from competitors, or walk away from a lucrative Pentagon contract.
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Companies See Bright Spots in Bleak Market There are still companies that have the stomach to invest in defense. Some actually view these tough times as an opportunity to win new business.
National Defense June 2015 Craig R. McKinley	Innovation and the Defense Industrial Base Secretary of Defense Ash Carter generated quite a buzz during his recent trip to Silicon Valley, and for good reason. It has been a generation since former Secretary Bill Perry traveled to this recognized home of high-tech innovation.
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Firms Think Twice Before Investing in DoD The Pentagon needs to get creative as it plans the weapons of the future, officials have said, and it needs private-sector help.
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Less Money, But Still Business As Usual As the dust begins to settle to reveal a leaner defense budget, Pentagon contractors are strategizing for the new business environment. They also will be parsing the latest batch of Pentagon policies designed to turn around failing weapon acquisition programs.
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999.
National Defense May 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Small Businesses: Showered With Praise, But Not Shown Much Love While Pentagon higher-ups and politicians shower praise on small businesses, in the muddy trenches of government contracting, it can be ugly. According to industry accounts, the entire procurement process is a path strewn with obstacles.
National Defense May 2015 Teka Thomas	DoD Can Motivate Tech Industry to Work On Defense Programs For Pentagon program managers and contracting officers looking at Northern California's ecosystem, understand that the technology, and the right to control the use of that technology is the coin of the realm
National Defense December 2015 Stew Magnuson	Searching High and Low for Innovation Anyone who has attended an industry conference lately knows that the Defense Department is on a hunt for "innovation." It's the topic du jour.
National Defense July 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Tries to Recapture Tech Glory Days After spending $50 billion over the past decade on failed weapons programs, the Pentagon is grasping for answers. Assorted procurement reforms have been tried, but they have delivered only marginal results.
National Defense September 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Management Shakeup Looms at Defense When a new secretary of defense takes the helm at the Pentagon at the outset of the next administration, he or she will have to deal with a potentially chaotic staff reorganization that Congress signed into law.
National Defense July 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Industry Targets $150B Weapons Maintenance Market Operations and support, or operations and sustainment, is military-speak for the unglamorous work of maintaining, refurbishing and overhauling Pentagon hardware, some of which is decades old.
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon, Contractors Clash Over Profits The pressure is on at the Pentagon to bring down the cost of military hardware. The dictum from acquisitions chief Frank Kendall is that "unaffordable" programs will be axed.
National Defense February 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	For High-Tech Firms, Allure of Defense Contracts Is Tarnished by Red Tape Even in today's struggling economy, the prospect of scoring a big defense contract is not enough for many companies to want to do business with the Defense Department.
National Defense February 2016 Sandra I. Erwin	CEOs Not Yet Ready to Take a Gamble Defense executives don't have clear answers as they weigh investment choices in an uncertain market.
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Technical Skills Shortage Hurts Pentagon's Bottom Line Unless current trends change, decision makers at the Defense Department may one day find that they lack a strategy for how to keep critical military programs from spinning out of control.
National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	As Pressure Grows to Cut Spending, the True Cost of Weapons Is Anyone's Guess A decade of soaring Pentagon spending is coming to an end, and it is leaving behind considerable fiscal wreckage.
National Defense December 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Mighty Pentagon Can't Deny Market Forces Market forces are such that the Defense Department could be headed toward a future of greater dependence on fewer and increasingly more powerful monopolies.
National Defense November 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Dept. Fails To Capture Available Technologies In the race to secure the latest and greatest technologies from the private sector and university labs, the Pentagon often comes up short.
National Defense October 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Golden Age of Federal Contracting Is Over Washington has dealt crushing blows to the national security establishment. There are no predictable budgets for the Pentagon to map out its weapons wish list, or for contractors to project their future business.
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Begins Broad Review Of Acquisition Workforce Skills The Pentagon has launched an extensive evaluation of military acquisition and contracting personnel in order to gauge their skills and competence.
National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	More Services, Less Hardware Define Current Military Buildup In the midst of the largest military expansion since the Reagan administration, industry analysts warn that the gravy days cannot last much longer.
National Defense January 2009 Matthew Rusling	Small Firms Seeking Federal Contracts Face Uphill Climb Pentagon officials are fond of saying that small businesses are critical engines of innovation. According to recent government statistics, however, the Defense Department awards fewer contracts to small firms than it is obligated under federal guidelines.
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Despite SecDef Pleas, Pentagon Is Losing the Innovation War As a result of not knowing what technologies are available, the military ends up with systems that become obsolete within a few years.
National Defense December 2014 Sandra Erwin	Pentagon Mulls Strategy for Next Arms Race The idea that the United States might see its overwhelming dominance in weapons technology erode is hard to comprehend, however, given the enormous spending gap between the Pentagon and everyone else.
National Defense June 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry Tees Up Policy Issues for 2016 The Beltway establishment is looking to a new administration to take on issues that have long been festering among defense contractors.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Expand Work Force Based on Quality, Not Quantity, Warns Former Pentagon official The Defense Department should be careful in how it goes about expanding its acquisition work force
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Contractors Advised to Focus Less On Stock Prices, More on Customers Pentagon contractors will have to think differently about their business if they want to maintain or improve the financial performance they have enjoyed over the past decade, insiders say.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Industry: What Does Change Really Mean? The defense industry is unsure how they will be affected by revamped procurement practices promised by the Pentagon.
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry and Government Butt Heads Over Weapons Maintenance Contracts Repairing and maintaining decades-old inventory has been big business for the defense industry, and will continue to be despite funding cuts that will hit the Pentagon over the next several years.
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Industrial Policy Debate: Should The Pentagon Pick Winners and Losers? Industry executives and trade associations have called for the Defense Department to take preemptive action to protect key sectors that are considered of strategic importance to national security.
National Defense December 2015 Lloyd McCoy Jr.	Defense Department Plays Key Role in Industrial Base Oversight The Defense Department and other federal agencies have been directed to identify and protect critical infrastructure sectors specific to their mission.
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Without Radical Change, Many More Defense Programs Will End Up Like JSF The breathless hype over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's soaring costs and schedule slips clouds a much bigger acquisition predicament for the Pentagon: How to stop more programs from ending up like JSF.
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Obama Administration To Open Wearable Tech R&D Center In Silicon Valley In addition to the Pentagon's contribution, the new institute will receive more than $90 million in funding from academia, corporate interests, and local governments for a total of about $171 million.
National Defense January 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Budget Squeeze Could Spur Defense Industry Shakeup To borrow a line from Casey at the Bat, there is no joy in Mudville. Defense industry executives, with good reason, are experiencing considerable anxiety as Pentagon budget cuts lurk around the corner.
National Defense May 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry Recalibrating Strategies For a Declining Defense Market The defense market is shaping up to become a Darwinian world where winning contracts will be a matter of life or death for many companies.
National Defense March 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	In '15 Budget, Red Flags for Contractors If defense industry CEOs can draw any conclusion from the Pentagon's 2015 budget proposal it is that, except for the too-big-to-fail joint strike fighter, most of the military's modernization plan is on shaky ground.
National Defense December 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Dept. Courts Commercial Vendors to Help Defeat WMD Threats The Defense Threats Reduction Agency is looking toward non-traditional commercial suppliers for vaccines and systems capable of alerting personnel in case of a bio-warfare attack.
National Defense May 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Should the Pentagon Rescue Ailing Suppliers? It is an inevitable consequence of plunging budget cycles that suppliers go out of business, and the Pentagon typically has favored a laissez-faire industrial policy even though the defense sector is far from a free market.
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Reform Agenda Targets Acquisition Workforce The Pentagon's cadre of "professional shoppers" could see a wave of reforms in the coming years, as the Defense Department remains under unrelenting pressure to fix its buying practices.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	DOD Budget Keeps Growing, Despite the Odds Top-ranking experts in government and industry have been warning of substantial impending cuts in defense spending for the past 18 months, yet when Pentagon leaders released their 2007 spending proposals, the numbers just kept on growing.
National Defense November 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	'Cutting-Edge' Weapons No Longer the Holy Grail Because of the war experience and the fiscal outlook, experts predict, the Defense Department will for some time remain conflicted about how it should spend its research dollars.
National Defense January 2016 Sandra I. Erwin	The Rise of the Machines? ... Not So Fast Robots working in tandem with troops are said to be the next big thing in defense technology.
HBS Working Knowledge May 16, 2012	Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	For Contractors in War Zones, Business Will Keep Growing The constant sniping in Washington about military contractors ignores the inescapable conclusion that the privatization of government functions not only is here to stay, but is going to get bigger.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Contracting Methods Stifle Innovation The Pentagon's new industrial policy guidelines call for the Defense Department to tap the commercial sector and small niche businesses for new technologies.