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 | REPORT OF THE DEFENSE CRITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN TASK FORCE By House Armed Services Committee
Over the past 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that US supply
chains have firmly established themselves as an issue of both economic security and national
security. Late night calls in search of masks for our nurses, hand sanitizer for our citizens, and
microchips for our automakers, laid bare these vulnerabilities in the commercial sector. That
searing experience put new focus on defense supply chains – meaning the international networks
that provide the goods and ...Read more > | 24 Pages 383.09 KB |
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 | TO BE MORE INNOVATIVE THE DIB NEEDS TO BE MORE DIVERSE By Kwasi Mitchell et al.
The DIB is a people industry. A few companies may have solutions or technologies that others cannot match, but for the vast majority - even the largest companies - maintaining a competitive edge depends on talent. A skilled and diverse workforce is more likely to deliver results on time. As a result competition for skilled, experienced talent in the DIB can be ...Read more > | 28 Pages 2.23 MB |
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 | VITAL SIGNS 2021: THE HEALTH AND READINESS OF THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE By NDIA
In 2018, the Department of Defense (DoD) released “Assessing and
Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and
Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States” (13806 Report), a
report focused on the production risks to critical defense industrial supply chains. The report starkly framed the health of the U.S.
defense industrial base (DIB) as key to the readiness of the United
States in an age of great-power competition. Despite the 13806
Report’s high-resolution ...Read more > | 64 Pages 10.54 MB |
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 | POLITICS, POWER, AND INFLUENCE: DEFENSE INDUSTRIES IN THE POST-COLD WAR By João Carlos Gonçalves dos Reis
In the post-Cold War period, the defense industry had a major influence on the
hierarchy of State powers (Neuman 2010) however, the defense sector received little or no
attention from scholars and professionals, which justifies this research.
Since the end of the Cold War, the defense industry changed, as the nature of war
shifted from large arsenals to highly innovative and highly accurate weapon systems
(PwC 2005). Thus, the defense industry had to adapt to survive in order to reduce ...Read more > | 14 Pages 1.69 MB |
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 | UNDERSTANDING AND PROTECTING VITAL U.S. DEFENSE SUPPLY CHAINS By Maiya Clark
The United States has entered a new era of
great-power competition with China. As the
country makes this shift, policymakers are
forced to reevaluate some lingering assumptions that
drove defense policy during the Cold War, the country’s last period of sustained great-power competition.
The competition with the Soviet Union was a competition between two spheres that rarely overlapped: The
United States had very little commerce with the Soviet
Union, and the global economy was ...Read more > | 19 Pages 291.70 KB |
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