Pentagon Transformation Causes Examination of 'Less-Traditional' Supplier Base

By John Liang / February 20, 2002 at 5:00 AM
The Defense Department is looking to broaden the defense industrial base to support its transformation efforts, a senior Pentagon official said today. "We're . . . very conscious of the fact that if we move from the more traditional form of warfare to transformational warfare . . . that the supplier base and the industrial base is likely to be . . . very different than what it is today," Suzanne Patrick, deputy under secretary of defense for industrial affairs,...

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