Pentagon plans review of U.S. 'technology industrial base'

By Justin Doubleday / June 15, 2018 at 4:06 PM
The Pentagon, on the heels of completing a review of its manufacturing industrial base, will soon begin studying whether U.S. industry is prepared to deliver the game-changing technologies the Defense Department seeks to field in the future. DOD is embarking on a "technology industrial base review" this year to assess whether the United States can meet goals laid out in the Pentagon's forthcoming modernization strategy, according to Kristen Baldwin, acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for systems engineering. Her boss,...

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