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Healthy Defense Industrial Base, Supply Chain Part Of Biden’s Conventional Arms Transfer Policy

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, February 24th, 2023

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Healthy Defense Industrial Base, Supply Chain Part Of Biden’s Conventional Arms Transfer Policy

President Joe Biden. Photo: White House

President Biden last week issued new guidance for U.S. weapons transfers and sales to allies and partners, highlighting that the strength of the U.S. defense industrial base and related supply chain is an important objective of the policy in furthering the nation’s foreign policy and national security. Calling out the importance of the defense industrial base and the supply chain is “very welcome language” in the Conventional Arms transfer (CAT) policy, Dak Hardwick, vice president of international affairs for the…

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