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NDIA Kicks Off Planning for Healthy Industrial Base Amid Lower Budgets

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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