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Inside Albers Aerospace: Building a “Next-Gen Prime” w/ John Albers
In the defense industrial base, everyone knows the primes dominate the big programs, but that leaves a huge gap in the middle.
Startups don’t scale, the primes can’t move fast, and decades of consolidation have hollowed out the space in between.
For years, everyone has recognized this gap, but no one has really solved it. The primes are getting bigger, the small innovators get attention but struggle to scale, and the middle tier keeps shrinking.
Meanwhile, the need for companies that can deliver speed, value, and scale has only grown more urgent.
That’s starting to change. A new class of…
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