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Leonardo DRS, Inc. proudly announced its recognition as the BAE Systems ‘Partner 2 Win’ Supplier of the Year for 2023. This prestigious award acknowledges Leonardo DRS’s exceptional performance and significant contributions to BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems sector supply chain. Jerry Hathaway, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Leonardo DRS Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems, underscored the company’s dedication to strategic partnership and customer satisfaction in accepting this honor. The Partner 2 Win program exemplifies BAE Systems’ commitment to operational excellence and continuous improvement within its supply chain, ensuring the highest standards of quality across its technological solutions. Through close collaboration with top-tier suppliers like Leonardo DRS, BAE Systems aims to deliver cutting-edge defense technologies that meet and exceed customer expectations. Ray Brousseau, Vice President of Operations, Electronic Systems, expressed appreciation for Leonardo DRS’s integral role in advancing technological innovation and supporting BAE Systems’ mission to provide superior defense capabilities worldwide. For more details, read the full release in our blog. #AvfoilNews #LeonardoDRS #BAESystems #SupplierOfTheYear #DefenseIndustry #OperationalExcellence #TechnologicalInnovation

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A&D is transforming to sustain operations and be digitally ready via cloud-based solutions. MRO services demand drives investment in digital tools to leverage fleet data for MRO activities with AI, analytics, and IoT to mitigate risks. Cyber threats require implementing security protocols for cloud-based services, adopting a zero-trust security model. Avasant #aerospaceindustry #defenseinnovation

Northrop Grumman, a global aerospace, defense and security company, wanted to improve their chemical data management systems and processes. Among the challenges they sought to overcome with the help of a chemical management solution were manual data entry processes, disparate SDS systems and difficulties querying data. Download the case study to learn how Sphera’s Chemical Management software helped them maximize efficiency and improve data management: https://bit.ly/488EyyP #ChemicalManagement #DataManagement #CaseStudy

𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐘 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲! HENSOLDT is proud to have continued its profitable growth trajectory in the financial year 2023 and thus met its recently raised forecast!   With increased 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐔𝐑 𝟏,𝟖𝟒𝟕 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 (+16% increase in core business), we are consolidating our position as one of the leading companies in the European defence electronics market. With 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐔𝐑 𝟐,𝟎𝟖𝟕 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧, the previous year was even exceeded. Driven by the positive business development, 𝐚𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐃𝐀 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝟏𝟐.𝟖% 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐔𝐑 𝟑𝟐𝟗 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧. At EUR 259 million, adjusted pre-tax unlevered 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 and exceeded the successful previous year by EUR 40 million. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/ePZyzACa #FY2023 #financials #oneHENSOLDT #makingthedifference

DoD just stood up a new OTA / consortium! The Department of Defense today announced the award of an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to Advanced Technology International (ATI) to serve as the consortium manager for the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC). This DIBC OTA will enable rapid research and allow access to commercial solutions for defense requirements and innovations from industry, academia, and non-traditional contractors. "The Defense Industrial Base Consortium Other Transaction Agreement will not only help stimulate the growth of the defense industrial base, but it will also enable more rapid execution of Defense Production Act funding," said Dr. Laura Taylor-Kale, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy. "Additionally, this helps us execute the National Defense Industrial Strategy, address defense supply chain pain points, develop the industrial workforce, sustain critical production, and allow for complementary investments from other federal agencies to build a robust, resilient, and modernized defense industrial ecosystem."

Raytheon/RTX, as are many Mega Companies, part-and-parcel to Executive acceptance of Exeutive Portfolio Management The Portfolio Concept is Dangerous, Short-Sighted and EXTREMELY VULNERABLE to uncalculated change; be it human, political, geopolitical or natural events. Portfolios Managed & Administered based upon collected data is always is always vulnerable to unexpected events and irrational thinking & behavior. Portfolios Management is short term with nearsighted thinking of barely a decade at best. BE CAREFUL it it is neither a Panacea nor “An End Alll Answer” for the Futre…!

Let’s break down the MS40 top 10 investments for Q1 2024 by industry as a percent of their total equity investments: 1. Aerospace and Defense: ~ 9%, an almost 2% increase compared to 4Q2023. 2.  Software: at 7.2% they moved into the second rank for the quarter. 3.  Capital Markets: with a QoQ reduction of 0.6% their holdings now stands at 6.6%.   Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eaQeJjyb

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Government contracting is hard, and here's the difficult truth for most product-oriented people: It is a challenge of people and money, not of technology and motivation. While the biggest prime contractors do have their own pool of business for large-scale systems integration, the theme of financial health across decades-long time horizons is something that all business leaders in this space are painfully familiar with. "[The Lockheed CFO] said factors such as 'technical milestone achievement through the balance of the year, discussions with our customers [and] visibility of funding' could all impact the size and timing of future losses, but that the company currently expects the program to become profitable on an annual basis around the 2028 timeframe." 10 years from now, will companies serving national missions face the same challenges? Or will new paradigms and tools emerge to better meld industry and government in the delivery of public sector solutions? https://lnkd.in/gDWmvr8w