The handover is the program
Partner-nation ISR programs rarely fail in the air. They fail at the point where the contractor is supposed to leave, because nobody designed that part.
Insights
Insights.
Analysis from the people who run these programs: what actually drives cost, why programs fail, what ITAR does to a partner-nation deal, and the questions buyers ask that nobody in this market answers publicly.
Endurance is the wrong first question
Every airframe conversation starts with hours on station. It is the wrong place to start, and starting there is how programs end up with an aircraft that cannot use the runway.
Who owns the aircraft, and why it decides everything else
COCO, GOCO and GOGO are usually presented as three procurement options. They are really three different answers to a question about sovereignty, and the wrong one is expensive.
The analyst is the constraint, not the sensor
Collection capacity is cheap and getting cheaper. The ability to turn collection into a decision is neither, and it is the thing that actually limits a program.
What a capability assessment should tell you before you buy anything
Most pre-sales assessments are a proposal with a cover page. A real one is capable of concluding that you should not buy an aircraft at all.