Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante chaired a meeting in Honolulu, HI, this week with national armaments directors from key U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific in the hopes of establishing a new forum capable of bolstering defense industrial capacity in the region. The new forum will be known as the Partnership for Indo-Pacific Industrial Resilience (PIPIR) and is envisioned to be similar to DOD’s regular engagements with NATO leaders in Europe, which have been focused on increasing weapons production and bolstering...
