The U.S. defense industry needs to invest in antifragility measures to improve resilience during this time of rising geopolitical tension, Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet said, which will require government buy-in. Supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19 highlighted weaknesses in industries in all sectors, including the U.S. defense industry, Taiclet said Wednesday at the Hudson Institute. By embracing antifragility, a concept introduced by statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder , the defense industrial...
