13 Nov, 2024 Defense Contractor Demand Could Increase as New Stealth Fighter Highlights Looming Threat By David Nolletti China's air force displayed a wide variety of technologically advanced weapon systems at the country's premier air show earlier this...
11 Nov, 2024 Is Boeing Overpaying for Spirit AeroSystems? By David Nolletti Spirit's Q3 Results In its Q3 earnings announcement, Spirit AeroSystems disclosed that a "substantial doubt" exists about the company's...
05 Nov, 2024 Boeing Strike Ends - Too Late to Stop Massive B737MAX Disruption? By David Nolletti Boeing and the machinist's union came to mutually agreeable terms and ended the strike that began on September 13. Members agreed to a...
01 Nov, 2024 In Defense Planning, Shipping Is the Achilles Heel for the American Military By David Nolletti Brigadier General John J. Pershing, Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in World War I once famously said, “Infantry wins battles,...
31 Oct, 2024 A Tale of Two Aerospace Rivals By David Nolletti "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times..." in A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens may have contrasted Paris and London, but in...
24 Oct, 2024 As a Boeing Strike Persists, Excess Inventory Will Impact the Aerospace Supply Chain By David Nolletti Rejection Hurts IAM union members rejected Boeing's latest contract proposal yesterday, with a majority of members voting “no” to a...
21 Oct, 2024 Boeing Bankruptcy or Breakup? By David Nolletti Too Big To Fail In spite of all the economic uncertainty in recent years and the poor performance at Boeing, I have a hard time believing...
18 Oct, 2024 Boeing Strike Ripples Through the Aerospace Supply Chain By David Nolletti The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? The first of the proverbial dominoes has fallen as a result of the machinists'...
16 Oct, 2024 Technological Advancement and Implications for Defense Suppliers By David Nolletti Technological Advancement and Defense Programs The rate of technical advancement has—and will—continue to have a profound impact on...
14 Oct, 2024 The Looming Commercial Aerospace Supply Chain Insolvency By David Nolletti Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for members of the commercial aerospace supply chain, along comes a strike and work...
07 Oct, 2024 Aviation MROs Benefitting from OEM Production Issues By David Nolletti There's been an awful lot written about production issues at Boeing and Pratt & Whitney over the last couple of years relating to...