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Breaking the Shipyard & Sustainment Bottleneck: Physics Should-Cost Teardowns and Sub-Tier Readiness Across Naval Programs (1)
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Breaking the Shipyard & Sustainment Bottleneck: Physics Should-Cost Teardowns and Sub-Tier Readiness Across Naval Programs (1)

When naval availability stalls at 46% and sole-source suppliers hike prices 30%+, physics should-cost clean-sheeting and nuclear second-sourcing size C$35M in annual rotable…

Gautam Bakshi, Ray HertantoOctober 28, 2026
Pre-LOI Defence Commercial Due Diligence: Replacing Conflicting Market Reports with Sourced-vs.-Inferred Audits and Automated Valuation Bridges (1)
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Pre-LOI Defence Commercial Due Diligence: Replacing Conflicting Market Reports with Sourced-vs.-Inferred Audits and Automated Valuation Bridges (1)

Syndicated defence market reports diverge by up to 3.4x. Cell-level Sourced-vs.-Inferred provenance and a 15-minute AFG valuation bridge deliver IC certainty inside 10-day LOI…

Gautam Bakshi, Jason De Souza, Yazid ErshiedOctober 28, 2026
Pre-LOI Defence Commercial Due Diligence: Replacing Conflicting Market Reports with Sourced-vs.-Inferred Audits and Automated Valuation Bridges
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Pre-LOI Defence Commercial Due Diligence: Replacing Conflicting Market Reports with Sourced-vs.-Inferred Audits and Automated Valuation Bridges

Syndicated defence market reports diverge by up to 3.4x. Cell-level Sourced-vs.-Inferred provenance and a 15-minute AFG valuation bridge deliver IC certainty inside 10-day LOI…

Gautam Bakshi, Jason De Souza, Yazid ErshiedOctober 28, 2026
Breaking the Shipyard & Sustainment Bottleneck: Physics Should-Cost Teardowns and Sub-Tier Readiness Across Naval Programs
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Breaking the Shipyard & Sustainment Bottleneck: Physics Should-Cost Teardowns and Sub-Tier Readiness Across Naval Programs

When naval availability stalls at 46% and sole-source suppliers hike prices 30%+, physics should-cost clean-sheeting and nuclear second-sourcing size C$35M in annual rotable…

Gautam Bakshi, Ray HertantoOctober 28, 2026
The Dual-Use Conversion Playbook: How Commercial Manufacturers Cross the Defence Credential Chasm
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The Dual-Use Conversion Playbook: How Commercial Manufacturers Cross the Defence Credential Chasm

Commercial manufacturers that bid directly on classified defence tenders stall in the credential chasm. Sequencing Stage-1 dual-use space and offset cells wins work in 90 days.

Gautam Bakshi, Ray Hertanto, Gowri PrakashOctober 28, 2026
Underwriting the Sovereign Pivot: How Banks, Institutional Allocators, and Private Equity Price Sub-Tier Defence Risk
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Underwriting the Sovereign Pivot: How Banks, Institutional Allocators, and Private Equity Price Sub-Tier Defence Risk

Banks and private-equity funds deploying capital into defence supply chains face 35.4% capital-lapse deferrals, availability fee clawbacks, and 4.4x registry revenue gaps.

Gautam Bakshi, Jason De Souza, Yazid ErshiedOctober 28, 2026
The Should-Cost Decomposition: Clean-Sheet Modelling & Strategic Sourcing for Margin Expansion
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The Should-Cost Decomposition: Clean-Sheet Modelling & Strategic Sourcing for Margin Expansion

Most procurement teams negotiate against a supplier’s previous quote rather than what the part actually costs to make. Decomposing quotes into raw-material indices, conversion…

Ray Hertanto, Rajan Sharma, Gowri PrakashOctober 13, 2026