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Cost-plus contracting is creating zero-sum dynamics and impeding the natural flow of capital and talent toward America’s national security challenges. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Government , Defense , Finance

Simplified: Cost-plus contracting impedes capital and talent flow toward national security challenges.

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With greater profits, primes can not only supplement internal research and development, but they also can level up their capabilities by acquiring innovative start 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Business , Finance , Research and Development

Simplified: Primes can supplement internal research and development and level up their capabilities by acquiring innovative start-ups with greater profits.

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To sustain a healthy defense tech ecosystem, start-ups need to be able to exit at five to ten times revenue; but with primes trading at only one or two times their own revenue, they’ll never be able t... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Business , Finance , Military

Simplified: Start-ups need to be able to exit at five to ten times revenue to sustain a healthy defense tech ecosystem.

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Toward that end, to ensure that industry gains make it back to the warfighter — and not back to company coffers as cynics fear — the primes can voluntarily pledge a minimum percentage of increased con... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Business , Finance , Research and Development

Simplified: Primes can voluntarily pledge a minimum percentage of increased contract-based margins to be reinvested in commercial research and development.

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As such, a third change is for primes to openly welcome and commit to trading higher profits for greater research and development investment, higher failure rates, and lower production costs. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Business , Finance , Research and Development

Simplified: Primes should commit to trading higher profits for greater research and development investment.

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The emergence of new defense contractor business models that generate value from innovations in manufacturing, efficiency, and scale — rather than sustainment and maintenance — would also make the sec... 0.800

👤 Julia van der Colff 📋 Article 🏷️ Business , Finance , Military

Simplified: New defense contractor business models would make the sector more attractive to venture capital investors.

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And that means there is $35 billion of additional defense budget to invest in more capability delivered through innovative product companies, like new entrants in defense tech ecosystem. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Government , Finance , Military

Simplified: There is $35 billion of additional defense budget to invest in more capability delivered through innovative product companies.

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For example, if Lockheed Martin’s revenue was cut in half but its multiple tripled, its valuation would rise 50 percent. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Business , Finance

Simplified: If Lockheed Martin's revenue was cut in half but its multiple tripled its valuation would rise 50 percent.

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In doing so, their revenue may shrink as they focus on higher margins and product-driven work, but their valuation will increase as the stock is re-rated (meaning they will have higher price-to-sales... 0.700

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Business , Finance

Simplified: Primes' revenue may shrink but their valuation will increase as the stock is re-rated.

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More specifically, primes must rotate their business model away from cost-plus and toward privately funded (that is, non–government reimbursed) research and development to build up intellectual proper... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Business , Finance , Research and Development

Simplified: Primes must rotate their business model away from cost-plus and toward privately funded research and development.

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Amending the above forces — independent research and development budgetary requirements, capped profits, and the Defense Department’s insistence on intellectual property ownership — can create win-win... 0.700

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Government , Policy , Finance

Simplified: Amending research and development budgetary requirements capped profits and Defense Department intellectual property ownership can create win-win-win...

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Cost-plus contracting with capped profits — along with the extraordinary amount of spend required to monitor, track, and audit contractor expenses — is a disservice to American prosperity, the taxpaye... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Government , Finance , Military

Simplified: Cost-plus contracting with capped profits is a disservice to American prosperity taxpayers and servicemembers.

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For that to change, these primes need to see a better return for the earnings they intend to retain and reinvest. 0.800

👤 Jerry McGinn, Mikhail Grinberg, and Lloyd Everhart 📋 Article 🏷️ Business , Finance , Military

Simplified: Defense primes need to see a better return for earnings they intend to retain and reinvest.

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If large defense primes are not making significant investments, it is because they believe that this incremental dollar is unlikely to materialize into a profitable contract in the future. 0.900

👤 Jerry McGinn, Mikhail Grinberg, and Lloyd Everhart 📋 Article 🏷️ Business , Finance , Military

Simplified: Large defense primes are not making significant investments because they believe incremental dollars are unlikely to materialize into profitable contr...

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Under normal market forces, America’s defense primes could double their value while halving their revenue. 0.700

👤 The author 📋 Analysis 🏷️ Finance , Business , Defense

Simplified: America's defense primes could double their value while halving their revenue under normal market forces.

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A similar comparison can be made with Microsoft; the primes are collectively worth 21 percent as much as Microsoft but have 39 percent more collective revenue. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Analysis 🏷️ Finance , Business , Defense

Simplified: Defense primes are worth 21% of Microsoft but have 39% more revenue.

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For example, based on data from S&P Capital IQ, as of March this year, the six traditional primes are collectively worth (by enterprise value) only 53 percent of Meta but have more than twice as much... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Analysis 🏷️ Finance , Business , Defense

Simplified: Six traditional primes are worth 53% of Meta but have twice as much revenue as of March this year according to S&P Capital IQ data.

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One dollar of revenue from a traditional prime is worth between one and two dollars in enterprise value, but one dollar of revenue from a commercial technology firm is worth five to 20 dollars in ente... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Analysis 🏷️ Finance , Business

Simplified: One dollar of revenue from a traditional prime is worth $1-2 in enterprise value. One dollar of revenue from a commercial technology firm is worth $5-...

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At the same time, the Pentagon (that is, the taxpayer) largely pays for its own research and development — often reimbursing primes directly — which drives up capability costs and means it has to buy... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Analysis 🏷️ Government , Defense , Finance

Simplified: The Pentagon largely pays for its own research and development driving up costs.

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This dynamic is a form of corruption, plain and simple, but in the case of the military-industrial-congressional complex, nearly a trillion dollars in taxpayer money is at stake, as well as the public... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Analysis 🏷️ Politics , Finance , Government

Simplified: This dynamic is corruption nearly a trillion dollars in taxpayer money is at stake.

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