Moving Forward to Strengthen the U.S. Military Manufacturing Base

06/07/2012
06/7/12: by Bill Anderson The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation Take a drive through any industrial city across the United States.  Take a good look at the shuttered factories behind locked gates that not so long ago manufactured quality televisions, clothing, shoes, automobiles and, quite importantly, critical military equipment to…

An American Perspective on the Defense Aerospace Industrial Base

12/14/2009
In a recent study published by the Mitchell Institute for Airpower studies, Rebecca Grant examines the challenges facing the future of the defense aerospace industrial base. Grant underscores the challenge of maintaining a viable defense aerospace industrial base over the next decades in the presence largely of simply one major…

Richard McCormack on US Dependency on China: China’s Complete Control Of Global High-Tech Magnet Industry Raises U.S. National Security Alarms

10/02/2009
Reports of China's impending decision to restrict exports of rare-earth minerals has suddenly awoken the U.S. government to its dependence on China for virtually all of the permanent magnets and rare-earth materials used throughout the defense industrial complex. China controls more than 95 percent of the world's supply of rare-earth…