Another Last Supper and a New Era of Defense Giants
The Pentagon is claiming to make room for small businesses, but in practice it’s reinforcing a new class of giants, and propping up legacy companies. Despite policy shifts, the Defense Department’s appetite for consolidation remains as strong as ever, leaving small businesses on the menu, not at the table. Today’s defense market consolidation mirrors the patterns that followed the infamous “last supper” of the 1990s. While emerging defense technology companies position themselves as disruptors, they follow remarkably similar consolidation playbooks to those used by the primes they claim to challenge. The result is not the diverse, resilient industrial base needed The post Another Last Supper and a New Era of Defense Giants appeared first on War on the Rocks.
The Pentagon is claiming to make room for small businesses, but in practice it’s reinforcing a new class of giants, and propping up legacy companies. Despite policy shifts, the Defense Department’s appetite for consolidation remains as strong as ever, leaving small businesses on the menu, not at the table. Today’s defense market consolidation mirrors the patterns that followed the infamous “last supper” of the 1990s. While emerging defense technology companies position themselves as disruptors, they follow remarkably similar consolidation playbooks to those used by the primes they claim to challenge. The result is not the diverse, resilient industrial base needed
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