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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on March 28, 2020, 08:48:46 am
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Non-Traditional Defense Companies Can Provide the Military With Unique Capabilities
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By Dan Gouré
March 28, 2020
Over the past few years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has undertaken a major effort to encourage non-traditional defense companies to do business with the Pentagon. These are firms of all sizes and types that do not provide defense-specific goods or services. The idea is that DoD acquisition can benefit not only from access to the unique products such companies produce but from their alternative approaches to design, production and sustainment. The Pentagon's interest in accessing non-traditional providers has focused to a large extent on small, innovative companies. Large commercial companies, including major manufacturers, can provide the U.S. military with new products and to procure them in large volumes as needed
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/03/28/non-traditional_defense_companies_can_provide_the_military_with_unique_capabilities_115155.html (https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/03/28/non-traditional_defense_companies_can_provide_the_military_with_unique_capabilities_115155.html)
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Working with the military's regs and requirements is an insanity many companies would not want to deal with. The military - and possibly Congress - will have to change a LOT for companies to want to become suppliers to the military. I've worked, through 4+ decades in Silicon Valley, at military contractors for 12 years. IOW, I'm not making stuff up.