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National Defense May 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Should the Pentagon Rescue Ailing Suppliers? It is an inevitable consequence of plunging budget cycles that suppliers go out of business, and the Pentagon typically has favored a laissez-faire industrial policy even though the defense sector is far from a free market.
IndustryWeek September 1, 2003 David Drickhamer	Department Of Defense Goes Global Congressional debate over defense-spending requirements mirrors U.S. consumers' growing ambivalence over where products are made.
National Defense February 2004 Peter M. Steffes	The Reality of 'Buy America' Provisions The 2004 National Defense Authorization Act now in House-Senate conference includes a series of legislative requirements known as the "Buy America" provisions. Few, if any, issues in recent defense legislation history have generated more reactions from a wide variety of interest groups.
National Defense March 2010 Holmes & Palachak	Munitions Industry Prepares for Downturn If munitions industrial capabilities disappear following ammunition budget cuts, any rescue efforts will be expensive and create significant turbulence in the sector.
National Defense February 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	State of Manufacturing Base Is Cause for Concern One lesson that we learned from the "Buy America" debate last year was the need for a thorough and detailed discussion on a national level about the state of the U.S. industrial base, particularly the capabilities of American industry to manufacture sophisticated components for weapon systems.
National Defense December 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Mighty Pentagon Can't Deny Market Forces Market forces are such that the Defense Department could be headed toward a future of greater dependence on fewer and increasingly more powerful monopolies.
National Defense May 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	U.S. Industry Bears Brunt of Past Protectionism In the United States, we have seen our defense industry shrink substantially and embrace globalization due to lingering legislation from years ago.
National Defense June 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Manufacturing Matters to the Nation's Economy and Security A detailed discussion of the nation's manufacturing challenges and their implications for national security.
National Defense June 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Manufacturing: A Crisis in the Making Defense manufacturing is like the weather. Everyone talks about it, but no one does anything.
National Defense December 2015 Lloyd McCoy Jr.	Defense Department Plays Key Role in Industrial Base Oversight The Defense Department and other federal agencies have been directed to identify and protect critical infrastructure sectors specific to their mission.
National Defense June 2010 Keith A. Delaney	Defense Industry's Help Needed To Avert Rare Metals Supply Crisis Just as the Defense Department and its suppliers worry about dependence on foreign oil, they also must be concerned about growing needs -- and potentially declining supplies -- of rare earth metals.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Small and Midsize Headaches: By The Numbers According to a study by industrial buying consortium Prime Advantage, raw materials and energy prices top the list of concerns in 2008 for small and midsize manufacturers. Supply chain costs also rank high.
National Defense September 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Why the Mightiest Military Can't Get Enough Trucks The political circus that has surrounded the procurement of mine-resistant armored vehicles for troops in Iraq comes as no surprise.
National Defense June 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry Tees Up Policy Issues for 2016 The Beltway establishment is looking to a new administration to take on issues that have long been festering among defense contractors.
National Defense February 2013 Dale Church	The Name of the Acquisition Game is Empowerment and Accountability Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition Frank Kendall's "better buying power" initiatives deserve applause, but it is also important to examine the root cause of many of the problems in the defense acquisition system.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Marc Lindemann	Civilian Contractors under Military Law The insertion of five words into Congress's fiscal year 2007 defense authorization act may now subject every civilian contractor operating in a combat zone to the discipline of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
National Defense April 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	For Defense Industry, the Path Forward Is Still Clouded by Uncertainty For industry, what does this all mean? One industry professional has described the current environment as "Eisenhower's big nightmare." Could a reasonably competitive industry survive large reductions in funding?
National Defense May 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Faces Fiscal Churn Beyond 2015 The defense sector breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act earlier this year. The respite, however, has been short lived.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Export Rules Under Fire for Eroding U.S. Space Industry Restrictions on exports of U.S. space technology have spurred a global demand for products made outside the United States.
National Defense June 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Contractors Face Fight-or-Flight Decisions The defense industry has only just begun to feel the sequester bite. Most of the top players continue to prosper even in a down market. Many companies in mid and lower tiers of the defense supply chain will likely be either financially unable or unwilling to weather the storm.
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Must Avert 'Points of Failure' in Supplier Base, Says Industrial Policy Chief With the U.S. military still involved in two major conflicts, the Defense Department must ensure that certain sectors of the defense industry remain financially healthy.
National Defense November 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Industrial Base: Active Management Needed In a time of constrained defense budgets, it is important to consider how the United States will preserve critical industrial and engineering capabilities.
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Industrial Policy Debate: Should The Pentagon Pick Winners and Losers? Industry executives and trade associations have called for the Defense Department to take preemptive action to protect key sectors that are considered of strategic importance to national security.
National Defense May 2008 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Defense Industrial Base: Plans Needed to Ensure Soft Landing It is probably not too early to contemplate what sectors of the U.S. defense industrial base should brace for a hard landing after the huge war supplemental budgets begin to wane.
National Defense July 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Hope and Despair in Government Procurement It's crunch time for acquisition reformers as they face a July deadline to submit recommendations to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
National Defense September 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Management Shakeup Looms at Defense When a new secretary of defense takes the helm at the Pentagon at the outset of the next administration, he or she will have to deal with a potentially chaotic staff reorganization that Congress signed into law.
National Defense December 2015 Mike McCord	Bipartisan Budget Act a Positive Step The secretary of defense and other leaders of the Pentagon have called on Congress to come together to address the sequestration problem by repealing or significantly increasing the spending caps contained in the Budget Control Act of 2011
National Defense January 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Problems in U.S. Munitions Sector Illustrate Challenges for Industrial Base It is not yet apparent that senior policy makers have begun to assess what industrial capabilities must be preserved. Ensuring that the United States is able to maintain core industrial competencies must be a priority before a fiscal downturn becomes reality.
National Defense April 2004 Tyrone Taylor & Ben Stone	Small Business Division Reviews First Year The National Defense Industrial Association refocused its efforts to represent the interests of its small business members by creating the Small Business Division. Its mission is to focus specifically on issues affecting small business defense contractors.
National Defense January 2016 Cassidy et al.	Defense Increases Scrutiny of Supply Chain The Defense Department has offered some clarification on how it plans to deal with suppliers that pose potential security risks.
National Defense October 2013 Stew Magnuson	Over Army Objections, Industry and Congress Partner to Keep Abrams Tank Production 'Hot' As far as producing Cold War era weapon systems the military says it has enough of, but Congress continues to fund anyway, there is probably no bigger poster child than the Abrams tank.
National Defense February 2012 Harvey M. Sapolsky	Defense Industrial Policy Myths Debunked Looming budget austerity raises concerns about the future health of the U.S. defense industrial base. But the coming crisis also offers an opportunity to prune the deadwood.
National Defense October 2005 Joe Pappalardo	As Military Becomes More Reliant On Networks, Vulnerabilities Grow If problems are not addressed, the Pentagon could spend $200 billion during the next 10 years on a network with serious vulnerabilities, according to security experts.
National Defense October 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Why Is Congress Launching Yet Another Roles-and-Missions Probe? Congress may have the power of the purse, but it has been largely powerless in just about every attempt to influence the course of the war in Iraq and to substantially reshape military spending priorities.
National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	More Services, Less Hardware Define Current Military Buildup In the midst of the largest military expansion since the Reagan administration, industry analysts warn that the gravy days cannot last much longer.
HBS Working Knowledge May 16, 2012	Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending.
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron	International Trade Benefits U.S., Says Pentagon Acquisition Chief The U.S. Congress must be better educated on the benefits of international trade, according to the Pentagon's top procurement official.
National Defense November 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Managing the Defense Industry: Stalinism or Smart Business? America's arms manufacturers are asking the Pentagon to step up and protect the industry from an imminent collapse.
National Defense September 2015 Craig R. McKinley	Congress Should Follow Its Budget Rules Of the five members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who will be leaving their positions or retiring this September, none ever had a defense budget passed on time under regular order following the procedures of the Budget Control Act of 1974 during their entire term in office.
National Defense April 2007 Steffes & Burnside	Restrictions on Flight Simulators Questioned A legislative restriction on providing flight simulators to the military services has the potential to seriously impact the readiness of our aviators in the military services.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2009 David Blanchard	Portrait of Best-In-Class Risk Management Risk management can help manufacturers weather supply chain storms.
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National Defense December 2010 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	Military Spending: How Much Defense Will the American People Support? The American public must become better educated about the budget process and national security. Citizens should be aware that the current trends of government spending can be ruinous and unsustainable.
CFO April 1, 2009 Josh Hyatt	Ready for Anything To keep supply chains lean and resilient, companies must keep a weather eye out for any and all disturbances.
National Defense January 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Manufacturing Edge Essential to Defense While the U.S. defense industry remains unsurpassed, it faces long-term challenges - one of which is its ability to secure innovative manufacturing capabilities. This applies all the way from bombers to boots.
National Defense May 2014	NDIA 2014 Industrial Base Initiative The National Defense Industrial Association has launched a new initiative to identify issues of concern in the nation's defense supplier base.
National Defense November 2015 Arnold L. Punaro	Challenges, Opportunities Ahead for Defense In a world characterized by increasing threats and instability, the inability of the government to complete its most basic task of funding national defense is a disturbing inconsistency.
BusinessWeek May 5, 2011 Chandra & Homan	Need a Towel Ring? Better Try China It's getting harder to find U.S.-made products in many categories.
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