The study by the Aerospace Industries Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers found that in the case of some critical components, only three or fewer qualified domestic suppliers exist.
Two major trade groups are working on studies to scope the supply chain issues, hone in on the most pressing problems, and identify early mitigation strategies.
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"This is a really rare opportunity to attack some of those requirements that are most burdensome,” said Margaret Boatner, AIA's vice president for national security policy.
The State Department should consider revising its draft language to reduce the technologies excluded from export control exemptions, which currently include submarines-related technologies and larger drones, the AIA said in recommendations to the department.
"If the price of a platform is variable and the Pentagon plans for three and isn't really adjusting for inflation, eventually they're going to realize they get two,” said Aerospace Industries Association CEO Eric Fanning.
Partners are "looking for clear answers in a reasonable time,” DSCA Deputy Director Michael Miller told Breaking Defense.
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
At its most basic level, under CMMC 2.0, defense contractors and subcontractors that have access to controlled unclassified information (CUI) will be required to demonstrate the “maturity” of their cybersecurity programs against a set of increasingly advanced capabilities.
“It feels a little like the uncertainty around COVID, but no companies are pulling out,” Eric Fanning, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aerospace Industries Association, told Breaking Defense.
Security sector governance “is incredibly important because, to me, security sector governance is the overlay for all of these issues,” Jessica Lewis, assistant secretary of state at the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, said at a Defense Writers Group breakfast.
“On the eve of Christmas Eve, this veto seems to be Trump’s parting gift to Putin and a lump of coal for our troops," Sen. Jack Reed says.
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"The impact is significant, and it's unacceptable," Gen. Jay Raymond told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The independent FCC seemingly "wrote these proposed rules mostly (if not entirely) in a vacuum, potentially failing to ensure White House directions in Space Policy Directives 1-through-4 were fully accounted for," said one USG official with an eye on the debate.