Maintaining Initiative, Agility and Resilience in a Time of Uncertainty Tate Nurkin, Senior Director, Strategic Assessments and Future Studies, IHS Aerospace, Defense & Security Tate Nurkin, Senior Director, Strategic Assessments and Future Studies, IHS Aerospace, Defense & Security The aerospace and defense market is one marked increasingly by complexity, uncertainty and a persistent vulnerability to fast-moving and trajectory altering disruptions that are straining both the operational resilience and strategic imagination of companies across these linked industries, particularly the CIO functions within them. Maintaining initiative, agility and resilience demands the adoption of new mentalities that explicitly challenge existing assumptions about the nature of technological innovation; competitive landscapes; and market risks and opportunities driven by five prevailing forces.