A draft copy of the new National Defense Industrial Strategy says American companies can’t build weapons fast enough to meet global demand.
America’s defense industry is struggling to achieve the kind of speed and responsiveness to stay ahead in a high-tech arms race with competitors such as China, an unreleased draft of a new Pentagon report on the defense industry warns.
The first ever National Defense Industrial Strategy, which is set to be released in the coming weeks by Pentagon acquisition chief William LaPlante, is meant to be a comprehensive look at what the Pentagon needs in order to tap into the expertise of small tech firms, while funding and supporting traditional companies to move faster to develop new tech.
As it stands now, the U.S. defense industrial base “does not possess the capacity, capability, responsiveness, or resilience required to satisfy the full range of military production needs at speed and scale,” according to a draft version of the report, obtained by POLITICO.
How the defense industry sees itself
🎶Never before has a
boymilitary industrial complex wanted more.🎶Oh wait…
I sincerely doubt the situation is as dire as they’re claiming considering our fucking defense budget.
Fuck off.
Fight climate change, not wars.
But what about climate wars
Might be onto something there hehe
(( not enough)) … “to satisfy the … needs…”
USA should re-evaluate its “need” to support Israeli’s genocide in Gaza.
I like how we got the “Pentagon slaps solar panels on its roof” piece the same day as this.
But sure, it wasn’t a puff piece to try and get you to ignore the fact that the pentagon is the singularly largest source of emissions on the planet.
US defense spending is close to a trillion. China’s is less than a third of that.
And how about an effin audit. No?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-fails-audit-sixth-year-row-2023-11-16/
Mostly because the US has to actually develop and research new weapon technology and China just copies everything so they don’t need to spend as much.
stop tryin? can we move on from producing human killing devices?
Sure. Done. Welcome to the United States of China.