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Trump Administration Has Opportunity To Shape Defense Market Amid Changes, Lynn Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, December 1st, 2016

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Trump Administration Has Opportunity To Shape Defense Market Amid Changes, Lynn Says

Former deputy secretary of defense and current CEO of Finmeccanica North America William Lynn

The defense industrial base in America is being pressured by several key forces that will reshape the defense market and the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump has an opportunity to help influence these changes so the country’s military forces retain their longstanding technological edge, a defense industry executive said on Thursday.The defense market is on the “cusp of a third pivot” in terms of its structure and the three primary forces driving this turn are the consolidation of military…

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