How the industrial base is responding to Air Force, Space Force needs
Demand signals from leadership are shaping investments in design, engineering and manufacturing.
“The Department has an exceptional opportunity to scale advanced manufacturing technologies in a way that bolsters the defense industrial base and the broader American industrial base,” lawmakers wrote in a report accompanying the House Appropriations Committee’s version of the fiscal 2026 defense budget.
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The Pentagon needs to take lessons from "smart" home devices and apply it the supply chain for munitions, writes Tara Murphy Dougherty of Govini.
"Singapore, however, will have to somehow de-conflict cooperation with the United States with the digital and cyber cooperation programs it also has with the PRC," Ian Chong, associate professor at the National University of Singapore, told Breaking Defense.
"It is well past time for DoD to stop treating AI like it is just a science project," Govini CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty said.