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The ownership of the intellectual property (IP) underlying the design of complex weapon systems has been at issue—between governments and their contractors—for over a century. In the United States, federal policy has directed several cycles of attention, both positive and negative, on the relative need to acquire these IP rights.
In this white paper, author James Hasik, who has been studying global security challenges and the economic enterprises that provide the tools to address them for decades, introduces a model of defense procurement competitions to examine the difference on pricing IP between the government and government contractors, and how that difference can be reduced.