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High Performance Teams In Defense

One of the foremost challenges facing the government electronics business sector is building high performance teams within the current skill-base and business culture and leading them to success.   The culture within most government electronics organizations for the past 10-15 years has been under a state of transition.   For more than 50 years, leading businesses in this industry primarily succeeded through enormous amounts of government spending for research and development projects of new and innovative technology.   The reduction in defense spending after the cold war resulted in multi-faceted cultural changes across the industry.1   No longer did the government fund these extended research projects for innovative new technology, they wanted the immediate results that are apparent within the commercial business world.   This created a disruptive market force that completely turned around the government electronics industry way of doing things.   They had to now turn to low-grade commercially created technology and integrate it into the high-grade technology the government was so used to.   Not only did this paradigm shift change the style of work performed by the government electronic industry, the reduction in spending also forced numerous layoffs.   While not realized at the time, this has severely affected the demographic of the workforce employed in the industry.   Now that the industry is evolving, it is again trying to reclaim a stable culture in which it can perform the level of high quality governments electronics its been known for in the past while adapting the values of the fast paced commercial culture.   The leadership of the industry does have ‘vision’ for what the future of the government electronics industry will be.   However one of its greatest challenges will be towards its middle management to both form diverse teams with the current demographic available and to lead these teams in a way that will allow them to adjust and succeed in this emerging...