(Editor's Note: This story has been updated to add a reference to a 2002 Commerce Department report on welding.) A new Commerce Department study on the space industrial base is likely to help the Pentagon make strategic purchasing decisions and achieve cost savings, according to officials conducting the review. The "deep-dive" study, which is still in the early stages but has been briefed to some Defense Department officials, has already uncovered a lot of interdependency among space contractors working...
