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Best Track Paper Runner-up at IISE 2025 Modeling & Simulation Division
Congratulations to Binoy Debnath, Zahra Pourfarash and of course Knudsen’s own Bhairavsingh Ghorpade for your paper titled “Integrating Reverse Engineering and Life Expectancy Analysis in
From Arsenal to Partner: Rethinking America’s Role in the Global Defense Industrial Base
For decades, Europe has been a loyal and strategic customer of U.S. defense systems. American jets patrol NATO skies, American missiles guard European borders, and
Knudsen White Paper: Speed Without Access
White Paper: Speed Without Access
Why Defense Reform Still Misses the Industrial Base
April 2025
Michael Morford
Knudsen Institute Expands National Advisory Board with Leading Academic Experts
Dr. Gregory Harris, Dr. Frank Pfefferkorn, & Dr. Steven Schmid Round Out Our Exemplary Group of Scholars The Knudsen Institute for Applied Research on Surge
White Paper: Asymmetric Surge Capacity
By: Phil DivinskiDownload PDF Ares and Plutus are Blood Brothers. War and economics are interdependent. Armed conflict consumes all of the factors of production: land, labor,
A Look at the DoD Finalized CMMC Rule
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) rule, finalized by the Department of Defense (DoD) and published on October 15, 2024, establishes a streamlined framework to