A draft copy of the new National Defense Industrial Strategy says American companies can't build weapons fast enough to meet global demand.

A draft copy of the new National Defense Industrial Strategy says American companies can’t build weapons fast enough to meet global demand.

America’s defense industry is struggling to achieve the kind of speed and responsiveness to stay ahead in a high-tech arms race with competitors such as China, an unreleased draft of a new Pentagon report on the defense industry warns.

The first ever National Defense Industrial Strategy, which is set to be released in the coming weeks by Pentagon acquisition chief William LaPlante, is meant to be a comprehensive look at what the Pentagon needs in order to tap into the expertise of small tech firms, while funding and supporting traditional companies to move faster to develop new tech.

As it stands now, the U.S. defense industrial base “does not possess the capacity, capability, responsiveness, or resilience required to satisfy the full range of military production needs at speed and scale,” according to a draft version of the report, obtained by POLITICO.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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      10 months ago

      yep, its all or nothing, right?

      we either have to blow more money than we could possibly spend on saving humans on the production of killing of human devices for ‘defense’

      we have to spend more than our next 20 allies ‘Combined’ for our ‘defense’. right.

      we have to create jhuman killing devices and sell them all over the planet to other countries for our defense. right.

      cuz right now our priority is spending trillions of dollars to protect us from no one that can invade us … cept china, who already indicates they dont want a ww3. totally worth it