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CSBA Report Urges Long-Term Plan To Protect Defense Industrial Base

Mai Hanoon

Wednesday, September 18th, 2013

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The Defense Department ought to develop a long-term strategy for maintaining the health of its industrial base and use that plan to ensure that budget cuts do not eliminate critical capabilities from the industrial base that cannot be easily regained, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments wrote in a report released today. The report, “Sustaining the U.S. Defense Industrial Base as a Strategic Asset,” argues that this long-term plan could be developed by generating a brief list of core…

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