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NDIA Kicks Off Planning for Healthy Industrial Base Amid Lower Budgets

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, January 13th, 2014

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NDIA Kicks Off Planning for Healthy Industrial Base Amid Lower Budgets

Arnold Punaro, chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Defense Industrial Association and a retired Marine Corps major general. Photo courtesy of the National Guard Bureau.

The National Defense Industrial Association has teamed up with a former Pentagon expert in industrial base issues to develop a plan for maintaining a healthy defense industry in a time of constrained budgets, NDIA Board of Directors Chairman Arnold Punaro said Monday. Punaro said the association had discussed drafting a proposal for Congress and the Pentagon for a few years now, knowing that budgets would be in decline. But “until you had a better view for what the top line…

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