Why American Shipyards Fall Behind: Inside the Naval Industrial Base
Six public yards build nuclear warships for the Navy, and every delay in the fleet traces to the same narrow chokepoints: yard capacity, a thin supplier tier, and hiring.
Industry
The contractors behind military hardware: production rates, backlog, workforce, castings, chips and the bottlenecks that push delivery dates to the right.
From 51 Primes to Five: The Consolidation of the Defense Industry
The post-Cold War merger wave cut the number of major US aerospace and defense primes by roughly ninety percent, and today's market structure is its direct product.
Primes, Subs, and Tiers: How a Defense Contract Actually Stacks
The five largest US defense contractors book the headlines, but most of the work on any program is performed two and three layers below them.