The Defense Department recognizes it must "correct for years of underinvestment in the industrial base," Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante wrote in an interim National Defense Industrial Base Strategy implementation report released today . The interim implementation report, LaPlante said, highlights ongoing DOD spending and initiatives related to several lines of effort previously identified in the NDIS, which was released in January . LaPlante said further details on NDIS implementation will be released later this summer but noted “there are...