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How Third Party Sourcing Elevates Credence and Credibility To demonstrate experience and expertise, the #marketers at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions invest in a thought leadership campaign called "Constellations." A multi-source content creation approach delivers a unique perspective, while also conferring third-party validation. Note the respected analysts quoted in this article. Well played! #ContentMarketing #ThoughtLeadership #DemandGeneration #B2BMarketing #PublicSectorMarketing #IndustryMarketing https://lnkd.in/ei57R77k

How Third Party Sourcing Elevates Credence and Credibility To demonstrate experience and expertise, the #marketers at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions invest in a thought leadership campaign called "Constellations." A multi-source content creation approach delivers a unique perspective, while also conferring third-party validation. Note the respected analysts quoted in this article. Well played! #ContentMarketing #ThoughtLeadership #DemandGeneration #B2BMarketing #PublicSectorMarketing #IndustryMarketing https://lnkd.in/ebjtrdnH

Shyam Sankar with a 🌶 take this morning: To improve the incentives to self-disrupt among America's defense industrial base, let defense primes earn higher profits. He argues for primes "rotat[ing] their business model away from cost-plus and toward privately funded (that is, non–government reimbursed) research and development to build up intellectual property and product portfolios that have commercial item pricing." The tradeoff is less revenue, but higher margin, for higher valuation. This is the argument Jeff Decker and I made to a number of primes as we pitched a joint venture studio concept over the last year. Disrupt existing programs by rotating to software, rotating out of services-led growth to margin-led growth. So far it hasn't taken off. Shyam offers three ways the Pentagon can incentivize this change: 1. Encourage intra-Pentagon competition — between program management offices, services, and combatant commands — for industry solutions. 2. Reform Federal Acquisition Regulation Section 15.404-4 to remove capped profits and attract more private capital. 3. Change the way DoD looks at IP -- specifically, the need to own core intellectual property of commercial providers. What do you think about this take? (Link to full article in comments)

EpiSci's chief technology officer Dan “Animal” Javorsek describes some of the needed changes to the defense acquisition system in order to help agencies take advantage of software-defined technologies. "While hardware meets a requirement, software solves the problems warfighters care about. Software, and the data that powers it, has become dramatically more important than the hardware that long dominated our defense acquisition ecosystem. The big companies defining our lives today - Amazon, Google, Meta, etc. - are all data-driven organizations. Like these corporations, what truly gives our military’s existing combat platforms their advantage is their software, enabled by performant hardware. Unfortunately, many of the challenges of shifting to a software-forward mindset arise because the military’s large acquisitions programs are designed to acquire hardware from incumbent companies that have been rewarded by the existing capability model that sets in once vendor lock is achieved. In fact, vendor lock has only strengthened since the infamous “Last Supper” of 1993 where Secretary of Defense Les Aspin encouraged dozens of companies in the defense industrial base to consolidate and merge into today’s few big prime contractors."

EpiSci's chief technology officer Dan “Animal” Javorsek describes some of the needed changes to the defense acquisition system in order to help agencies take advantage of software-defined technologies. "While hardware meets a requirement, software solves the problems warfighters care about. Software, and the data that powers it, has become dramatically more important than the hardware that long dominated our defense acquisition ecosystem. The big companies defining our lives today - Amazon, Google, Meta, etc. - are all data-driven organizations. Like these corporations, what truly gives our military’s existing combat platforms their advantage is their software, enabled by performant hardware. Unfortunately, many of the challenges of shifting to a software-forward mindset arise because the military’s large acquisitions programs are designed to acquire hardware from incumbent companies that have been rewarded by the existing capability model that sets in once vendor lock is achieved. In fact, vendor lock has only strengthened since the infamous “Last Supper” of 1993 where Secretary of Defense Les Aspin encouraged dozens of companies in the defense industrial base to consolidate and merge into today’s few big prime contractors."

In a recent article for Time Magazine, @RayDalio discusses the potential for significant reform under the Trump administration, drawing parallels with the strategies employed by corporate raiders during hostile takeovers. This includes personnel changes, cost reductions, and the integration of innovative technologies.

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