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First Time Ever: DOD's Quadrennial Defense Review Addresses Decline Of U.S. Industrial Base |
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Written by Sara Haimowitz
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
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Manufacturing News
February 12, 2010 Vol. 17, No. 3
The Quadrennial Defense Review from the Secretary of Defense admits that the U.S. government "as a whole" and the "Pentagon in particular" have ignored the erosion of the defense industrial base. "The result has been that America's defense industry has consolidated and contracted around 20th-century platforms rather than developing the broad and flexible portfolio of systems that today's security environment demands." It is now time for Congress, the Pentagon and the entire federal government to abandon the "outdated attitude toward the U.S. defense industrial base," that was "for decades, largely hands off," says the QDR.
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