Pentagon Contractors Souring on 'Soft Power'

摘要

Pentagon contractors are turning bearish on the so-called "soft power" market for non-defense work such as nation-building and post-conflict reconstruction.rnDuring the past several years, major defense firms have been seeking to diversify their corporate portfolios in anticipation of funding cutbacks to traditional weapons programs. One promising new source of revenue, analysts predicted, was the emerging "interagency" work from the non-defense side of the government, such as the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, as well as from the military's expanding role in post-conflict "stability" operations.