No single company, institution, or government agency has a complete view of America's defense industrial base. Yet decisions about production, investment, capacity, supply chains, and technology depend on understanding how the whole system fits together.
A better picture would help companies anticipate demand, identify constraints, make smarter investments, and coordinate where individual efforts fall short. It could make a meaningful difference to America's industrial strength.
Talbot West is bringing together a select group of industry leaders and partners to help make that possible.
We're building on substantial work already underway, including a growing body of defense-industrial research, firsthand experience inside industrial companies, and advanced AI capabilities for connecting and interpreting complex information.
Combined with the knowledge and relationships of people across the industrial base, these capabilities could support consequential decisions and collaborations.
We're looking for early partners who recognize that opportunity and want to help shape it.
The initiative's eventual form remains open. It could include focused research, intelligence briefings, working groups, or collaborations around specific industrial problems. Early partners will collaborate in shaping the direction.
Talbot West helps industrial companies make complex modernization decisions and install the capabilities those decisions instantiate.
Our work combines direct operating experience, extensive research, AI-enabled analysis, and a systems perspective that looks beyond individual companies to the relationships and dependencies that determine industrial performance.
We are already assembling and connecting evidence across production constraints, supplier dependencies, investment decisions, procurement signals, capacity, technology, and workforce.
We bring the research, technology, and leadership to get this moving. Our partners bring perspectives, experience, and relationships that can make the work considerably more powerful.
Visibility into dependencies, constraints, and emerging conditions beyond the portion of the industrial base your organization normally sees
Relationships with people confronting connected problems
An early voice in shaping an initiative with significant potential
Share your perspective where you have relevant knowledge
Join occasional focused conversations when useful
Help identify promising questions, opportunities, and collaborators
There is no standing meeting commitment or prescribed workload. We will shape participation around the interests, expertise, and availability of the people involved.
We're assembling the initial group selectively.
If someone shared this page with you, ask them for a personal introduction to Talbot West CEO Jacob Andra.
An initial 30-minute conversation will explore your perspective, your interests, and where you might contribute to and benefit from the initiative.
Explore Talbot West’s Aerospace & Defense practice, including research into modular systems architecture and gray-zone threats.
Talbot West's account of enterprise cognition. It explains how people, systems, roles, representations, and routines combine into the machinery through which a company perceives reality, makes judgments, commits, acts, and learns.
It grounds this initiative at the company level by showing how capable parts can still produce incoherent outcomes when important relationships are filtered out or fragmented across the enterprise.
Talbot West's model of industrial ecosystem coherence. It maps how firms, buyers, investors, institutions, commitments, and operating constraints combine to determine what an industrial base can actually produce.
It gives this initiative its system-level frame by tracing visible constraints back to the cross-boundary conditions that create or sustain them.
