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Accolades
- Simply outstanding.— Deputy Under Secretary at the Pentagon, on recent analyses of future force structure requirements
- You and Aboulafia are the only two publicly-quoted defense consultants worth paying attention to.— Someone who gets quoted a lot more than I do
- You’re one of the few guys who brings me real numbers. Most people just try to blow smoke...— President of a major military trucks and armored vehicles manufacturer
- You are an impressive madman whom I am glad to know.— Vice President and M&A practice leader with an aerospace & defense consultancy
- One of the best strategic moves we could have made, short of starting another war.— General Manager, leading weapons manufacturer, regarding recommendations for using the lessons of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq to plan the future of the company’s product lines
- Exactly what we needed.— CEO of a defense buy-out firm, on market insights and financial projections regarding an acquisition target
- Your ability to infer from open sources is wonderful.— Vice President for Corporate Strategy, leading armored vehicles manufacturer, on recent studies of fatality patterns in military vehicles in Afghanistan and Iraq
- We should have done [this] a year ago, but I could never find someone like you with the right perspective.— Vice President for Business Development at a fast-growing manufacturing firm, on recommendations for managing the company’s problematic alliance with a Fortune 500 defense contractor
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Recent Posts
- Senator Hutchison, call your office—Some thoughts on the immediate need for another BRAC
- On the timing of Leon Panetta's announcement regarding the F-35B
- Defense barrier, or just desperation in Kansas?
- Stand by for BRAC 2013, and the closure of at least one Air Logistics Center
- Truck Industry Mergers, and Why a Little Pricing Power is Good for Even the Customer
- Some observations about past programmatic disasters, and a New Year's business resolution for 2012
- Sunk Costs, the F-35, and the Increasingly Unfortunate Commentary from Forbes
- SRA sells ERA to OMNIPOL
- "To do less with less... won't work this time. The world won't co-operate." Here's a modest proposal.
- Consolidation begins—on General Dynamics' Proposed Purchase of Force Protection
In the Press
- Marinette-Built Navy Ship Hits Choppy Seas, in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 12 February 2012
- Oshkosh Contract to Turn Profit Sooner than Expected in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 January 2012
- Oshkosh Fires Back at Corporate Raider in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 December 2011
- Navistar to play more defense under Icahn's pressure: analysts, in Crain's Chicago Business, 28 October 2011
- Reports: Investor Pushing Oshkosh Corporation Merger with Navistar, on WBAY TV Green Bay, 21 October 2011
- Military Contracts Play Into Oshkosh Corp. Labor Negotiations, on WBAY TV Green Bay, 13 October 2011
- How far below cost did Oshkosh bid, in order to remove a competitor?, on Defense Industry Daily, 1 August 2011
- Both Companies Stand To Benefit After Northrop Grumman Spins Off HII, in Aviation Week & Space Technology, 11 April 2011
- Oshkosh Faces Smaller Defense Market as Truck Orders Are Cut, on Bloomberg, 24 February 2011
- Fight to outsmart enemy enlists aid from Oshkosh in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 February 2011
- Budget limits efforts to add, upgrade vehicles, in Army Times, 7 February 2011; and More Than Technology, Budgets Shaping U.S. Efforts, in Defense News, 31 January 2011
- Oshkosh to add up to 750 new jobs to fill military contracts in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 January 2011
- Oshkosh delivers first trucks in huge order, on WGBA television, 20 January 2011
- Navy awards ship contracts: Marinette to begin work immediately in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 December 2010
- Congress approves Marinette Marine contract in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 December 2010
- Pumping New Life Into Humvees in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 August 2010
- Army Tries Again for a New Tank in National Journal, 7 August 2010
- Marine aviation looks to jump into the future: Corps favors F-35B Joint Strike Fighter as next jet in the San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2010
- Glitch shows how much US military relies on GPS in the Associated Press, 1 June 2010
- Doyle offers $50 million to aid in Marinette shipbuilder bid in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 10 May 2010
- Critics: Time to bail on Navy JSF, in Navy Times, 29 March 2010
- Amphib decks to decide future of F-35Bs? in Marine Corps Times, 28 March 2010
- Nanotechnology Will Soon Take on Pirates in Assembly Magazine, 25 March 2010
- Tanker Deal Tanks in The American Spectator, 9 March 2010
- Et voici… l’“option nucléaire” pour le JSF: “Kill It” in De Defensa, 5 March 2010
- Is the F-35 Militarily Vital? in Defense Tech, 3 March 2010
- Analyst considers a world without the F-35 in The DEW Line (FlightGlobal), 3 March 2010
- EADS reportedly wants Northrop Grumman to bid on tanker in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2 March 2010
- Will Northrop Grumman bid on tanker? in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 26 February 2010
- Tactical vehicles stunner: Why BAE won, but lost, the FMTV protest in National Defense Magazine, 15 February 2010
- $3 billion Oshkosh deal upheld: Losing bidders appealed, but firm will retain tactical trucks contract in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 13 February 2010
- How to get the best price on a hatchback Air Force tanker in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 9 February 2010
- Air Bust? in The American Spectator, 28 January 2010
- Analyst: split tanker buy has advantages, political risks in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7 January 2010
- Armoured Vehicle Modernization After FCS: Implications for Canada in Canadian-American Security Review, January 2010
- Defense consultant pans Air Force tanker request in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5 January 2010
- At Colorado firm, a cluster of retired brass is raking it in in USA Today, 29 December 2009
- Goodrich’s AIS Acquisition, and Its Implications in Defense Industry Daily, 4 December 2009
- Oshkosh awaits Army contract review in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 15 November 2009
- New Pentagon Priorities Reshape Defense Business: Smaller Contractors Benefit Amid Shift From High-Tech Weapons to More-Basic Arms Meant for Quick Deployment in the Wall Street Journal, 22 September 2009
- Pentagon push for vehicle program menaces another in the Guardian, 27 May 2009
- Roadside Bombs vs. our troops in the Toronto Star, 21 March 2009
- Message to Weapons Buyers: Make it Cheaper and Faster in National Defense magazine, March 2009
- DoD insulated from U.S. automakers' woes in Defense News, 24 November 2008
- Q&A on entrepreneurship and alliance management in Unmanned Systems magazine, October 2008
- Position fix: GPS signal promises better accuracy, less interference, in C4ISR Journal, August 2008
- Drones in The Military: Infatuation or True Love? National Defense Magazine, August 2008
