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Executive Summary
Governments around the globe spend billions of dollars each year on items designed to exterminate human beings. Everything from small-arms ammunition to intelligent “smart” bombs has been produced in prodigious quantities. Most of these products though do not come cheap. The U.S. Government is one of the largest if not the largest spender on defense related products and services (Shaw, 2008). This enormous spending has attracted many different international defense contractors, each one competing alongside US contractors for defense dollars. Lately though, many US firms and members of congress has started questioning the Department of Defense (DOD), when a large award is handed out to a non-US firm when US companies have the ability to produce the product at comparable prices. British Aerospace Systems (BAE), a British firm, receives approximately 50% of its annual income from US defense spending and will be directly impacted if congress eliminates non-US firms from competing for defense related contracts. Therefore, it is the opinion of this paper that BAE must begin to investigate alternative avenues of research besides defense related that will become just as remarkable in terms of potential income as the defense industry has become, and be of a technology that will allow BAE to become that industry’s technology source-expert.
Company Background - BAE Systems
BAE Systems (BAE, 2008) develops and builds some of the worlds most effective and advanced combat vehicles, munitions, submarines and air superiority platforms. A sampling of the product line include the Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank, which is in use by the Royal Tank Unit of England and the Bradley Fighting Vehicle which is currently the mainstay armored vehicle of the US Army. BAE Systems is the 3rd largest Defense contractor...
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