Aerospace and defense is being rebuilt around new entrants, new capital, and new production models, and the advantage is moving with it. The firms that optimized for an earlier era of exquisite systems and long programs are being tested against a faster, more software-defined way of competing. How they build, how they fund growth, and how they partner will separate the next generation of winners from the rest.

In this series, BCE Senior Advisor Kristin Robertson examines the forces driving that change, one topic at a time, from space and autonomy to defense capital, manufacturing, and allied production.