Again, the Long War reshapes the defense industry

MARKETPLACE: "Defense Firms Gird for Fight to Find Profits," by August Cole, Wall Street Journal, 22 October 2009.

Old theme of mine: actual war is a bitch for the defense industry, because operational costs build up while unit buys of new platforms decline in response.

So now everybody finds themselves competing fiercely for fast-growing markets in UAVs and cyber security.

Comments

[David Sutton]

Batteries - decent batteries - the company that gets this right stands to make a mint.

Every time I read an account of modern warfare featuring US troops the bitch is always the same , high tech, bad batteries.

No point in having NVGs if you can't actually use them.