“Our aim is not merely to maintain America's edge, but to sharpen it and lay the foundation for continued U.S. leadership in critical technologies and capabilities that will define the battlespace of the future,” Pentagon acquisition executive Bill LaPlante wrote in a foreword to the new National Defense Industrial Strategy Implementation Plan.
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
With potential adversaries no longer predictable, training must move beyond just live exercises and flight simulators.
"We are working on it literally as we speak," said Laura Taylor-Kale, assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy.
Successful implementation of the National Defense Industrial Strategy may very well be the deciding factor in our future as a global military power.