Pentagon moving on defense industrial base policy changes

By Tony Bertuca / November 7, 2018 at 4:20 PM
The Pentagon in the coming year will be able to implement about one-third of the 300 classified policy recommendations in its recent report on the defense industrial base, according to Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy Eric Chewning, who helped manage the study. "Things we've identified as high-impact and easy to implement? That's going to happen first," he said. "That's things where we've got a single source supplier that's got capacity issues, we've got to go...

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