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The ownership of the intellectual property (IP) underlying the design of complex weapon systems has been at issue鈥攂etween governments and their contractors鈥攆or 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.聽
In , 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.聽
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