Space
The defense space is shifting from exquisite, one-of-a-kind satellites to proliferated constellations, and that changes the entire value chain. The advantage now turns on rate production at DoD quality, the cleared workforce pipeline, and the gap between vertical integration strategy and how SDA is buying.
Autonomy
The expendable-to-attritable continuum is reshaping how defense companies design, produce, and sustain autonomous systems. BCE Senior Advisor Kristin Robertson explains why the industrial approach has to match where a system sits on that spectrum, from manufacturing volume problems at the expendable end to design trade-off challenges at the attritable end. She covers what CONOPS maturity, software-defined sustainment, and affordability constraints mean for companies competing across this space.
Space
The defense space is shifting from exquisite, one-of-a-kind satellites to proliferated constellations, and that changes the entire value chain. The advantage now turns on rate production at DoD quality, the cleared workforce pipeline, and the gap between vertical integration strategy and how SDA is buying.