White House directs DOD to run government-wide industrial base review

By Tony Bertuca / July 21, 2017 at 4:09 PM
President Trump has signed an executive order July 21 directing the Pentagon to oversee a nine-month, government-wide assessment of the defense industrial base, according to White House officials. Peter Navarro, Trump's top industrial policy and trade adviser and director of the White House National Trade Council, said during a July 21 press briefing the effort marks the first-ever "whole-of-government" review of the defense industrial base. "By viewing our defense industrial base more broadly than just the traditional defense sector, this...

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