Consolidation of the defense industrial base has led to concerns about whether enough competition exists between remaining firms to maintain needed cost reduction and innovation. We examine competition in the U.S. defense industrial base by per-forming an in-depth case study of Lockheed Martin

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Based on intensive interviews with industrial and regional actors, this article shows that in two smaller European countries, Belgium and the Netherlands, regional defense conversion efforts have not been common or markedly successful. Defense industrial activity, while regionally con

The defense industry export of Korea has been steadily risen since 2006. It is attained $340million, the highest export amounts ever, in 2013. As the defense industry export increase, Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) built defense industry export and import management system

a strong military. Evidently it is not possible to form and maintain a strong and modern army without having important industrial input. Accordingly, Turkey is enforcing its defense industry to cope with the relevant targets.

European integration has increased to encompass security-related policies. One such policy is defense industry policy, which traditionally has been a national concern rooted in defense and security policy. Efforts have been made since the 1990s to create a European defense industry market. However

of skilled workers within the 450 industries in U. S. manufacturing rather than to a reallocation of employment between industries, as would be implied by a shift in product demand due to trade or to a defense buildup; (2) trade- and defense-demand are associated with only small employment reallocation

The Brazilian defense industry has become the country's most dynamic high-tech industry. Its remarkable growth and development will be analyzed in this article. In the first section, the matrix of motivations behind the establishment of the Brazilian defense industry will be discussed

Evolutionary computation is becoming common in the solution of difficult, realworld problems in industry, medicine, and defense. This paper reviews some of the practical advantages to using evolutionary algorithms as compared with classic methods of optimization or artificial intelligence. Specific

Jordan is a recent entrant to the domestic defense industry with the establishment of King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) in 1999. The defense industrial initiative is intended to jumpstart industrialization across a range of sectors. With the Jordanian defense expenditures at 8