Pakistan’s Shifting Defense Procurement Practices By Aaron Lin and Shane Mason Shane Mason sat down with Aaron Lin to discuss his recent white paper, Pakistan Looks East: Why Pakistan is Turning from Washington to Beijing for Defense Equipment. The paper examines Pakistan’s defense procurement options since the US ended military assistance to the country as …
AVASCENT WHITE PAPER July 2018 By Shane Mason Download PDF: Since 2001, the US has provided military assistance to Pakistan in exchange for a supply route to American troops in Afghanistan, while benefitting from Pakistan using this assistance to procure US defense equipment. However, President Trump recently ended this practice as recompense for Pakistan giving safe-haven …
By Aaron Lin, Senior Market Analyst US President Donald Trump’s recent statements about NATO’s defense spending re-ignited debate over how much money NATO member states should be spending on defense. While having a member state spend 2% of their GDP on defense has been the stated goal since 2010, Trump went further last week by saying …
RIAT and Farnborough Airshows Preview By Joe Walsh, Ian Ferguson and Ben Goodlad The Royal International Air Tattoo gets underway on Friday with the Farnborough Airshow following immediately on Monday. Ahead of these two highlights on aerospace calendars, Avascent’s London office head, Joe Walsh, sat down with Associate Ian Ferguson and Analysis Manager Ben Goodlad …
The National Defense Authorization Act: The Debate this Week and Why it Matters By Michael Barber and Matt Vallone While the House debates the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) this week, the outcome of how the defense budget should be spent holds implications for policy, procedures, and industry. In this new podcast, Matt Vallone analyzes the …
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018: Defense Hawks vs. Deficit Hawks By August Cole and Matt Vallone The signing of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 last month ended nearly a decade of fiscal austerity, with the aerospace and defense sectors now expecting a run-up in defense outlays during the coming years. Defense hawks as well as …
By Ben Goodlad, Analysis Manager The UK’s recently released 2017 Equipment Plan reveals that between 2017 and 2026 the UK intends to spend £2.4 billion less than the figure stated in the 2016 Equipment Plan for the same period. This reduction will be seen in the equipment support with projected spending over the period from …
AVASCENT ANALYTICS REVIEW March 2018 By Michael Barber, Hamilton Cook, Jessica DiPaolo, Matt Vallone In the recently-released FY 2019 Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP), the Department of Defense (DoD) has projected rapid near-term expansion of spending, an increase of just under 11% from FY 2017 to FY 2018 and an additional 2.3% [1] from FY 2018 to FY …
AVASCENT WHITE PAPER March 2018 By Steve Ganyard (Colonel, USMC, Ret.), David “Chip” Berke (LtCol, USMC, Ret.) Infographic Contributors: Hamilton Cook, Matt Vallone Download PDF: Amid all the fanfare around the arrival of fifth-generation fighters in US and allied air forces, it is a mistake to overlook the technological, cultural, operational, and defense industrial disruption these jets will …
Innovations in Space: Startups vs Status Quo, GEO Comms, Data Analysis, and Fresh Investment By August Cole, Andrew Penn, and Bret Perry Ahead of SATELLITE2018 and its accompanying SGx2018 – of which Avascent is a sponsor – taking place March 12-15 in Washington, D.C., August Cole sat down with Andrew Penn and Bret Perry to discuss …