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Aerospace & Defense
Fixed-Price Is Now the Mandate. Here Is What That Demands from Your Estimating Process.
Executive Order 14402 made fixed-price contracts the default across federal procurement. Here is what that mandate demands from your defense estimating process, and why the gap is now expensive.
Ten Months of Defense Acquisition Reform: What the Feinberg Memo Means and Where the Reform Actually Stands
From the Warfighting Acquisition System to Executive Order 14402 to the Feinberg memo, here is the complete arc of defense acquisition reform and what it demands from your pricing and estimating process.
AI in Defense Pricing: Domain Expertise Is What Separates Useful from Dangerous
AI is accelerating defense pricing. But without domain expertise, it accelerates the errors too. Here's what separates useful AI from dangerous AI in defense pricing and estimating.
TINA and CAS Compliance Threshold Relief Isn't Risk Relief
The TINA and CAS compliance thresholds have moved. FAR 15.404 didn't. Here's what the FY2026 NDAA actually means for your pricing exposure, and where the real advantage sits.
6 Structural Reasons Why A&D Pricing & Estimating Is Complex
In A&D, pricing isn't really estimating a cost. It's reconciling engineering uncertainty, contract-type risk-sharing, government audit exposure, and a shifting regulatory floor, all at once, often for something that has never been built before. The estimator isn't just forecasting a number. They're navigating a set of structural constraints that don't exist anywhere else in industry. Here are the six reasons why A&D pricing and estimating is complex.
Twenty5 and RevTech Consulting Partner to Deliver End-to-End SAP Transformation and Intelligent Pricing for Aerospace & Defense
This partnership pairs RevTech's SAP and A&D consulting expertise with Twenty5's iPE platform to give government contractors one path from bid to delivery, and extends into joint AI innovation.
From First Bid to Closeout: One Connected Operating Model for Aerospace & Defense
Cognitus, an IBM Company, Cora Systems, SAP, and Twenty5 have joined forces to introduce the A&D End-to-End Value Framework – unifying program delivery execution, ERP, and compliance.
Twenty5 is Heading to Farnborough Airshow 2026
Join Twenty5 this July at Farnborough Airshow 2026 along side the world's most ambitious aerospace and defense organizations.
How SAP and Twenty5 Are Advancing A&D Bid Accuracy and Closing the Gap Between Sales and Delivery
Getting a bid wrong in Aerospace & Defense doesn't just cost you the contract. It can cost you the company. In this episode of Sharp Vision with Twenty5, co-founder and CEO Magnus Bjorendahl sits down with Dave Blatner, SAP Industry Advisor for Aerospace & Defense, and John Mikos, SAP A&D Value Advisor and former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, to unpack why the cost estimating problem in A&D remains so persistent, and how the Twenty5 and SAP partnership is uniquely positioned
Government Contract Compliance: What You Need to Know About Certified Cost and Pricing Data
Bidding on government contracts above $2M? Learn your certified cost and pricing data obligations under SAT & TINA threshold rules, cost vs. price analysis, and why your estimating process is the real differentiator.
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