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Report Suggests Multiple Approaches To Better Integrate Allied Defense Industrial Base

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, March 9th, 2018

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Report Suggests Multiple Approaches To Better Integrate Allied Defense Industrial Base

New exemptions for controlled goods, program licensing, integration of performance based logistics contracting, and improving standards to better enable open systems architecture among international partners are among the key recommendations in a new report aimed at furthering integration of the defense industrial bases of the U.S., Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.Another recommendation based on the information collected for the report is the need to strengthen the capabilities of the acquisition workforces of the partner nations so they are “in…

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