Title says it all. I've just started working on defense acquisitions and appropriations policy and would like to get a history of arms idustry pre-Cold War. I was listening to Dan Carlin's Bueprint for Armageddon and he talked pretty extensively about how the fleets at the Battle of Jutland were the cutting edge of technology of the day, hence why the admiralty was so cautious and why the battle is the only instance in the 50 year battleship era where they fought each other.
Large companies like Vickers-Armstrong, Creusot, Schneider, Putilov, Krupp, and Skoda were among the biggest weapons suppliers before the war. Smaller countries like Serbia were able to purchase weapons from pretty much any suppliers in Europe it seems, with French, Russian, and even German and Austro-Hungarian weapons suppliers selling to them.
The Anglo-German Naval Arms Race began with the German Naval Laws of 1899-1901, and continued up until the war began, while the Land Arms Race began in 1913, with the passing of the German Army Law, in response to Russia's Great Programme, which triggered France to readopt a Three Year Service Law.
Richard Hamilton has a good lecture about business leading up to WWI [here] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e_RfFzyris).