How to use the ‘MRAP mindset’ to get US industrial base on a wartime footing
George Mason University’s Jerry McGinn argues in this op-ed that the Pentagon can move more quickly if it heeds lessons from a previous life-or-death acquisition story.
The health of the Defense Industrial Base is failing, trade group says
That conclusion is part of the National Defense Industrial Association's third annual Vital Signs 2022 report, which offers an analysis of the US's defense industrial base.
The AFCEA DC Small Business Breakfast Program is coming up next Wednesday 5/20.
The event explores how AFCEA DC is accelerating delivery of next-gen capabilities to the US Navy and the Navy's transformation of small business programs. Secure your spot today!
Want To Solve Supply Chain Security? Do Business Differently
It's time to make real changes to the DFARS requirements, writes Stephanie Halcrow.
We Must Rebuild American Uranium, Rare Earths Infrastructure
Rare earths are 17 chemical elements used in military equipment as varied as missile guidance systems to lasers. China controls much of the world’s rare earth production, which has made them a concern of the Pentagon and the White House. Uranium is another critical military material largely controlled today by foreign sources. What should […]
EXCLUSIVE: Shanahan Keeping Top Staff If Confirmed
The moves at the top of the Pentagon power structure will create openings elsewhere, as officials continue move in and out of the Trump administration
Bigger Debt Means Smaller Budgets (But We Need More Shipyards): DoD Officials
Even as one official warned that budget pressures would squeeze the budget, another said the nation must expand the defense industrial base to build a 355-ship Navy.
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Voyager is fortifying the U.S. Defense supply chain
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
Trump Advisor Charges “Globalist” Conspiracy to Undermine China Trade Deal
WASHINGTON: President Trump’s top advisor on trade and manufacturing policy railed against “globalist billionaires” and Wall Street executives during a forceful, hour-long speech in Washington on Friday. Peter Navarro accused US business leaders of being “unregistered foreign agents” working for Beijing trying to pressure President Donald Trump into a trade deal with China. “When these […]
Trump’s Industrial Base Report Blames China, Sequestration
Congress and China have emerged as the primary culprits for the weakening the US defense industrial base. Those are the most striking findings of a new White House report that takes a deep-dive into the state of defense manufacturing in the United States, sounding alarm bells over the decline in capability and the rise of China’s industrial might.
Trump OK’s Huge Industrial Base Study: Rollout May Be Delayed
President Trump approved a major study of America's national security economy last week after meeting with Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan. But Hurricane Florence might have something to say about when it's released!
White House Industrial Base Study Focuses On Near-Term Fixes
These single points of failure already limit military modernization and potentially could disrupt operations in a crisis. That's especially true if production needed to ramp up urgently for a major war, a subject the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, has publicly angsted about.
Satellites at the center: Inside the Pentagon’s next-gen space architecture
From emerging data networks to missile tracking and cyber resilience, Breaking Defense’s latest eBook brings together essential reporting on the evolving role of satellites in national security.
Pentagon Wants Industry to be Smart on Cyber, But No Plan Yet
Under constant cyber attack, the Pentagon is struggling to find ways to incorporate cyber security as part of the contracting process.
DoD, White House Likely To Fight Chinese Monopoly on Rare Earth Minerals
With an Executive Order and a new study due soon that promises to take a hard line against Chinese imports, the Trump administration is opening a new front, while protecting the US defense industry.
Industrial Base Analysis Picks Up Steam; Recommendations To White House By April
WASHINGTON: President Trump’s sweeping review of the national security industrial base — from shipbuilding to microchips, strategic minerals to vaccines — is almost halfway done. A score of working groups across the government, not just the Pentagon, will submit their draft recommendations this month and next, an administration official briefed on the review tells me. Then […]
Industrial Base Too ‘Brittle’ For Big War: Dunford
CAPITOL HILL: Is the arsenal of democracy out of business? Probably not, but America’s “increasingly brittle industrial base” may not be able to sustain our forces in a protracted war, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Joseph Dunford, warned the Senate in a written statement this morning. It’s a problem a lot of people […]