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Industry Leaders: Increasing Automation Will Be a ‘Force Multiplier’ for Defense Sector

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Industry Leaders: Increasing Automation Will Be a ‘Force Multiplier’ for Defense Sector
One of Bell Helicopter's commercial aircraft in development at the company's Amarillo, Texas, production facilities. Photo: Defense Daily.

The manufacturing and production industry’s pivot to increasing automation in its facilities is not new, but embracing this way of building products will be essential to companies’ success in the long term, industry leaders said May 28. “I don’t think we have any choice as a nation to adopt … automation across many, many aspects of what we do,” said Nazzic Keene, CEO of SAIC [SAIC], in a Thursday video conference hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.…

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