Defense Supply Chain Analysis

Oct 08, 2024
Stockpiling inventory has been a key approach to smoothing out production variabilities, but the practice is increasingly coming at a cost.
Sep 27, 2024
Ted Colbert’s abrupt departure marks the first of possibly many management changes to improve the airframer’s course.
Sep 26, 2024
A new sheet of music is coming to the U.S. industrial base and will drive an Era of Reorganization.
Sep 19, 2024
Management asserts that the $4.7 billion deal will lead to growth in new markets while investors are keen to see a payoff.
Sep 18, 2024
The agency’s first operational satellite deployment will test its innovative bureaucracy.
Feb 13, 2026
India is targeting greater than 50% localization of components for future Dassault Rafale fighters made in-country, Defense Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said.
Feb 13, 2026
Joint venture Quantum Frontline Industries says it has delivered the first Linza 3.0 drones made in Germany to the Ukrainian armed forces.
Feb 13, 2026
Howmet Aerospace posted 21% defense sales growth in the fourth quarter, driven by engine demand from both advanced and legacy fighter jets.
Feb 12, 2026
Hensoldt has struck a partnership with Helsing, the European defense AI company that is behind development of the CA-1 Europa collaborative combat aircraft.
Feb 12, 2026
MTU Aero Engines' new boss wants to maintain the engine partnership with Safran to jointly pursue the fighter programs likely to emerge from the anticipated divorce between France and Germany on the Next-Generation Fighter portion of their FCAS.
Feb 12, 2026
UK government ministers have insisted they will not let a decision to buy a New Medium Helicopter (NMH) for the armed services “time out.”
Feb 10, 2026
The French ministry of armed forces is pushing its prime contractors to ramp up weapons production.
Feb 10, 2026
Hexcel, which supplies advanced composites to more than 100 military aircraft, sees growing demand for its products globally as countries hike defense spending.