DS Forecast provides a unique combination of highly-detailed bottom-up market forecasts and easy-to-use online analysis tools. This combined package delivers an unprecedented capability that enables you to better understand your competitive landscape, navigate your markets, identify potential new business and then ultimately focus your efforts and resources on pursuing the most attractive opportunities.

• Identify Opportunities - DS Forecast provides estimated unit costs, R&D forecasts, unit delivery schedules, probability factors, descriptions and other key details on stated and derived customer requirements worldwide.
  
• Position to Win - Understand your competitors' perspectives and identify their most likely actions. Evaluate competitors' portfolios to identify their "must wins" and shape your bidding strategy accordingly. Analyze unit cost data for comparable systems, customer purchasing and investment patterns, underlying or enabling technologies or even competitor loss histories. Run award scenarios to employ game theory.
  
• Customer Analysis - Understand your customer's perspective, requirements and concerns by identifying their incumbent programs, investment patterns and potential competing priorities.
  
• Subcontractor Analysis - Understand relationships and patterns of subcontractor partners and competitors. See where you can benefit from partnering and realize where certain partners are actually your competitors. Analyze and identify when and where it may be appropriate to share information with other contractors.
  
• Subsystem Analysis - Size subsystem markets and find potential opportunities for existing technologies. Prospect emerging technologies through suppliers.
  
• Organizational Leverage - Add additional context and more strategy to your day-to-day business development activities. Ask better questions of your analysts and complete more iterations to get to the heart of the matter sooner.
  
• Align with your Customer - Use DS Forecast's Customization Options (Custom Markets, Addressable Markets and Custom Segmentation) to align your thinking, analysis and strategy with your customers' views.

DS Markets is a comprehensive on-demand market analysis solution that combines a worldwide bottom-up database of 10-year sales forecasts of defense and aerospace markets with an easy-to-use online charting interface. Our forecasts are developed by our team of experts, each of whom has 30+ years of experience in aerospace and defense.

DS Budgets is a five-year bottom-up budget forecast derived directly from US RDT&E and Procurement budget documents and accessible through a charting interface similar to DS Markets. Please click here for a full description of DS Budgets and access to sample charts.