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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
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
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. |
Entrepreneur
May 2007
Mark Henricks |
Empty Net? Will snagging a government contract ever get easier? |
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. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2005 |
Tying Supply Chain To Customers How Dell succeeds in an increasingly competitive market. |
National Defense
March 2013
Jeffery A. Green |
Congress Finally Tackles Strategic Materials Reform With the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress has enacted significant reforms to the Defense Department's acquisition and industrial base policy. |
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. |
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
February 2008
Joseph J. Summerill |
Congress to Enact New Accountability in Contracting Congressional interest in oversight of government contracting began early last year with separate bills during the first three months of the 110th Congress in both the House and Senate that provided for contractor oversight and limited the number of sole source contracts. |
Inc.
April 2009 |
How to: Become a Government Contractor The federal government is about to start spending hundreds of billions of dollars to stimulate the economy - some directly, some passed through to the states. And some of that money will go to small companies. |
National Defense
December 2006
Chandra Burnside |
Veteran Owned Small Businesses Deserve Equal Benefits Current law regarding service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses ultimately does not create the same benefits for them as those extended to other marginalized entrepreneurs. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2005
Willem Noorlander |
The Rock, the Hard Place, and Doing Business in Today's Information Marketplace Due to increasing business requirements -- and given that the dollars spent for information and market data within many industries make up the second-highest company cost next to people -- one wonders how customers and suppliers alike are weathering the flat market storm. |
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
June 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
For Defense Industry, Lure of Shiny Objects Rapidly Fading The erstwhile dependable moneymakers in the defense industry no longer look like safe bets. Big-ticket weapon systems are being delayed, terminated, investigated or mired in endless reviews. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009
Josh Cable |
Creating 'Interlock' Five strategies to keep the relationship between procurement and R&D in gear. |
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2002
Larry Hall |
Finding the Holes in Purchasing Policies The growth of real estate portfolios triggered many inefficiencies that are now apparent in a down economy. Despite greater scrutiny of spending, many real estate executives remain unaware of the high price of wasteful procurement operations. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2002
Doug Bartholomew |
The Big Squeeze Small and midsize manufacturers say price-cut mandates and online reverse auctions compromise quality and endanger their businesses. Supporters of the practices say the strongest suppliers will survive, making supply chains more efficient... |
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. |
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
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 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 |
IndustryWeek
November 17, 2010 |
Trimming the Fat From Indirect Procurement Industrial manufacturers are looking to sharply reduce transactional costs and the number of purchase orders. |
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
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. |
CIO
July 15, 2003
Michael Schrage |
Squeeze Now, Pay Later A wounded vendor may turn around and bite the CIO who squeezes it too hard. |
National Defense
August 2010
Thomas A. Benes |
How Will the Defense Industry Adjust to New Fiscal Realities? Given the country's current fiscal and political environment, everyone, including defense industry leaders, is expecting changes in military spending and acquisition policy. |
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. |
