
SoCal on Cusp of New Defense Manufacturing Boom
The manufacturing boom won’t materialize without greater effort by private industry, government agencies, educational institutions and non-profits.

The manufacturing boom won’t materialize without greater effort by private industry, government agencies, educational institutions and non-profits.

We need to link delivery performance to mission impact, because there is no value in shipping software code weekly if it fails to advance mission metrics or creates a poor user experience.

Engagement by the UK’s financial sector in security and defense has been tepid at best. This must change.

DoD should find pragmatic ways to address the problems it can solve right now. This will require a willingness to embrace more agile and innovative solutions.

The escalating frequency and intensity of wildfires demands something new to combat them — a wholesale embrace of the most powerful technology available: military-grade artificial intelligence.

We need to find innovative ways to stretch our industry training dollars, especially as advancing military threats spur the need for more advanced weaponry and a well-trained workforce.

The U.S. Air Force is teetering on the edge of losing its precious lead in jet engine expertise by delaying or restructuring its secretive Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD fighter.

Adding an auxiliary hybrid power system to idling vehicles is a feasible change that will allow the military to maximize the cost efficiency of emission reduction while rapidly upgrading entire fleet of vehicles.

The U.S. is lagging dangerously behind peer and near-peer competitors in the education of uniformed and civilian Department of Defense (DoD) workforce and our ability to identify and promote talent.

Pressure is mounting in Congress to update legislation that guides the use of defensive systems that protect against aerial drones. At present, the legislative framework underpinning the use of these systems needs major revision because it was formulated at a time before the widespread proliferation of drone technology.

To maintain its status as a global superpower, the United States cannot afford to fall any further behind in our hypersonic military systems.