
This week’s meeting of national armaments directors from 45 countries, the European Union, and NATO resulted in plans to stand up smaller working groups to help form multinational strategies aimed at addressing defense industrial base and supply chain challenges for efforts to support Ukraine and more broadly, according to the Pentagon’s top acquisition official. “These working groups will define multinational strategies to mitigate supply chain constraints, increase production and pursue not just interoperability but interchangeability,” Bill LaPlante, under secretary of…