Aerospace E-Biz Ventures Encounter Regulatory Pitfalls

摘要

Government regulations, rather than attracting customers, are shaping up to be the greatest hurdle for the burgeoning aerospace e-commerce businesses in the near-term. Some of the larger aerospace and defense business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces being created are waking up to this realization as they transition their ventures from view graphs into actual operating units. With issues such as antitrust concerns still unresolved, Ellis R. Mottur, the Commerce Dept.'s deputy assistant secretary for technology and aerospace industries, points out that "not all of this [e-commerce] activity is going to be perfect."