How to use the ‘MRAP mindset’ to get US industrial base on a wartime footing

How to use the ‘MRAP mindset’ to get US industrial base on a wartime footing
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

The health of the Defense Industrial Base is failing, trade group says
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.

Want To Solve Supply Chain Security? Do Business Differently

Want To Solve Supply Chain Security? Do Business Differently
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

We Must Rebuild American Uranium, Rare Earths Infrastructure
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

EXCLUSIVE: Shanahan Keeping Top Staff If Confirmed
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

Bigger Debt Means Smaller Budgets (But We Need More Shipyards): DoD Officials
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.

Trump Advisor Charges “Globalist” Conspiracy to Undermine China Trade Deal

Trump Advisor Charges “Globalist” Conspiracy to Undermine China Trade Deal
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

Trump’s Industrial Base Report Blames China, Sequestration
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

Trump OK’s Huge Industrial Base Study: Rollout May Be Delayed
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

White House Industrial Base Study Focuses On Near-Term Fixes
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.

Pentagon Wants Industry to be Smart on Cyber, But No Plan Yet

Pentagon Wants Industry to be Smart on Cyber, But No Plan Yet
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

DoD, White House Likely To Fight Chinese Monopoly on Rare Earth Minerals
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

Industrial Base Analysis Picks Up Steam; Recommendations To White House By April
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

Industrial Base Too ‘Brittle’ For Big War: Dunford
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…