aerospace and defense
Open Options’ proven process and proprietary analysis can be applied to complex, high-stakes issues / situations / decision-points involving multiple external stakeholders where there is asymmetric information and strategic interdependence; helping to create a clear, executable playbook for decision-makers operating in some of the most consequential programs in the world.
• Strategic Alliances & Contracting
• Competitive Positioning & Capture Strategy
• Programs, Operations & Supply Chain Resilience
• Growth & Expansion Strategies
• Mergers, Acquisitions, & Industry Restructuring
• Corporate & Government Affairs
• Crisis & Risk Management
• Industrial Policy, Sustainability & Workforce
• Any other complex multistakeholder issue...
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• Prime supplier partnerships
• International teaming arrangements
• Offset and industrial participation agreements
• Joint ventures for next-generation platforms
• Contract renegotiation
• Exclusivity and long-term supply agreements
• Major program competitions and bid strategy
• Price competition vs. value differentiation
• Responding to new platform entrants
• Competitive positioning across allied markets
• Dual-use (civil/military) product strategies
• Aftermarket and sustainment competition
• Complex supply-chain negotiations
• Single-source and fragile supplier risk
• Make-vs-buy decisions
• Program recovery and schedule stabilization
• Entry into new defense markets and allied nations
• Expansion: space, cyber, and autonomous systems
• Portfolio investment prioritization
• R&D and technology road-mapping
• Defense strategies against hostile or political intervention
• Strategic acquisitions of niche providers
• Market exit or divestitures of non-core or politically sensitive assets
• Regulatory approval and multi-government consent processes
• Funding allocation strategies
• Lobbying and policy influence strategy
• Cross-border regulatory alignment
• Program overruns and public scrutiny
• Contract disputes and claims
• Geopolitical escalation impacts
• Supply chain or security breaches
• Reputation and trust recovery strategies
• National industrial strategy alignment
• Defense-related sustainability commitments
• Workforce availability and skills competition
• Balancing sovereign capability vs. efficiency
• Long-term industrial base planning
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