Download or read book Assessing and Strengthing the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessing and Strengthing the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 2019 Defense Department Report on American Industrial Capabilities U S Position in Global Defense Markets Manufacturing Base Problems New Technology Aircraft Space Hypersonics Cyber Missiles written by U S Military and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mission of the Office of Industrial Policy (INDPOL) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense is to ensure robust, secure, resilient, and innovative industrial capabilities upon which the Department of Defense (DoD) can rely to fulfill current and future warfighter requirements in an era of great power competition. The U.S. aerospace and defense (A&D) sectors continue to outperform the broader U.S. equity market, suggesting investors remain optimistic about the overall health, profitability, and long-term prospects of the sector.This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.1. Office of Industrial Policy Introduction * 1.1. Mission * 1.2. Organization Structure * 2. National Defense Strategy * 2.1. Build a More Lethal Force * 2.2. Strengthen Alliances and Attract New Partners * 2.3. Reform the Department of Defense for Greater Performance and Affordability * 2.3.1. Changes to DoD Organizational Structure * 2.3.2. Business Reforms to Improve Performance and Increase Affordability * 3. Defense Industry Outlook * 3.1. The Defense Industrial Base is Profitable and Expanding * 3.2. Supplier Assessment * 3.3. Changes in DoD Obligations and Vendor Composition * 3.4. Outlook and Challenges * 4. U.S. Position in the Global Defense Markets * 4.1. United States Contribution to Global Defense Spending * 4.2. Defense Exports and Foreign Military Sales * 4.3. Competitor Nations * 5. Executive Order 13806-Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States * 5.1. Aircraft * 5.1.1. Sector Overview * 5.1.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.2. Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear * 5.2.1. Sector Overview * 5.2.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.3. Ground Systems * 5.3.1. Sector Overview * 5.3.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.4. Munitions and Missiles * 5.4.1. Sector Overview * 5.4.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.5. Nuclear Matter Warheads * 5.5.1. Sector Overview * 5.5.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.6. Radar and Electronic Warfare * 5.6.1. Sector Overview * 5.6.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.7. Shipbuilding * 5.7.1. Sector Overview * 5.7.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.8. Soldier Systems * 5.8.1. Sector Overview * 5.8.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.9. Space * 5.9.1. Sector Overview * 5.9.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.10. Materials * 5.10.1. Sector Overview * 5.10.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.11. Cybersecurity for Manufacturing * 5.11.1. Sector Overview * 5.11.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.12. Electronics * 5.12.1. Sector Overview * 5.12.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.13. Machine Tools * 5.13.1. Sector Overview * 5.13.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.14. Organic Defense Industrial Base * 5.14.1. Sector Overview * 5.14.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.15. Software Engineering * 5.15.1. Sector Overview * 5.15.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.16. Workforce * 5.16.1. Sector Overview * 5.16.2. Sector Risks and Mitigation Strategy * 5.17. Executive Order 13806 Action Plan and Next Steps * 6. Critical New Technologies * 6.1. Industrial Base Assessment of Critical New Technologies * 6.2. Assessments and Technologies * 6.2.1. Hypersonics * 6.2.2. Directed-Energy Weapons * 6.2.3. Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning * 6.2.4. Quantum Science * 6.2.5. Microelectronics * 6.2.6. Fully Networked Command Control and Communications * 6.2.7. Space * 6.2.8. Autonomy * 6.2.9. Cyber * 7. Conclusion

Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Download or read book The Wires of War written by Jacob Helberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former news policy lead at Google, an “informative and often harrowing wake-up call” (Publishers Weekly) that explains the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the authoritarian regimes of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy. From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google’s global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war between democracy and autocracy. On the front-end, we’re fighting to control the software—applications, news information, social media platforms, and more—of what we see on the screens of our computers, tablets, and phones, a clash which started out primarily with Russia but now increasingly includes China and Iran. Even more ominously, we’re also engaged in a hidden back-end battle—largely with China—to control the internet’s hardware, which includes devices like cellular phones, satellites, fiber-optic cables, and 5G networks. This tech-fueled war will shape the world’s balance of power for the coming century as autocracies exploit 21st-century methods to redivide the world into 20th-century-style spheres of influence. Without a firm partnership with the government, Silicon Valley is unable to protect democracy from the autocrats looking to sabotage it from Beijing to Moscow and Tehran. Helberg offers “unnervingly convincing evidence that time is running out in the ‘gray war’ with the enemies of freedom” (Kirkus Reviews) which could affect every meaningful aspect of our lives, including our economy, our infrastructure, our national security, and ultimately, our national sovereignty.

Download or read book Acquisition Trends 2018 written by Rhys McCormick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyzes the current state of affairs in defense acquisition by combining detailed policy and data analysis to provide a comprehensive overview of the current and future outlook for defense acquisition. This analysis will provide critical insights into what DoD is buying, how DoD is buying it, from whom is DoD buying, and what are the defense components buying using data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). This analysis provides critical insights into understanding the current trends in the defense industrial base and the implications of those trends on acquisition policy.

Download or read book Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy The U S and Chinese Defense Industrial Bases in an Era of Great Power Competition written by Seth G. Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's defense industrial base is operating on a wartime footing, while the U.S. defense industrial base is largely operating on a peacetime footing. Overall, the U.S. defense industrial ecosystem lacks the capacity, responsiveness, flexibility, and surge capability to meet the U.S. military's production and warfighting needs. Unless there are urgent changes, the United States risks weakening deterrence and undermining its wartime capabilities. China is heavily investing in munitions and acquiring high-end weapons systems and equipment five to six times faster than the United States. China is also the world's largest shipbuilder and has a shipbuilding capacity that is roughly 230 times larger than the United States. One of China's large shipyards, such as Jiangnan Shipyard, has more capacity than all U.S. shipyards combined.

Download or read book Evaluating Consolidation and the Threat of Monopolies within Industrial Sectors written by Andrew P. Hunter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics scholars and policymakers have rung alarm bells about the increasing threat of consolidation within industrial sectors. This paper examines the importance of industrial concentration in U.S. defense acquisition in two ways: first, a direct relationship between concentration and performance outcomes; and second, a mediating relationship, where concentration influences performance through reduced competition for defense acquisition. The study created a large contract dataset incorporating economic statistics on industrial sectors and analyzed it using multilevel logit models. The study finds that subsector concentration correlates with greater rates of termination. Contrary to the hypothesis, competition is associated with higher rates of termination, and only single-offer competition is significantly associated with lower rates of cost ceiling breaches. Taken together, the results are consistent with the literature on the risk of concentration’s connection with market power but also suggest that the mechanisms of competition are worthy of future study.

Download or read book The Military Balance 2021 written by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 1037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published each year since 1959, The Military Balance is an indispensable reference to the capabilities of armed forces across the globe. It will be of interest to anyone interested in security and military issues and is regularly consulted by academia, media, armed forces, the private sector and government. Key Elements: 1. Data on the military organisations, equipment inventories and defence budgets of 171 countries 2. Analysis of major developments affecting defence policy and procurement, and defence economics, arranged region-by-region. 3. Key trends in the land, sea and air domains, and in cyberspace 4. Selected defence procurement programmes, arranged region-by-region 5. Full-colour graphics including maps and illustrations 6. Extensive explanatory notes and references 7. The hardcopy edition is accompanied by a full-colour wall chart Features in the 2021 edition include: - Analytical texts on future maritime competition, battle management systems, China’s civil-military integration and fractures in the arms-control environment - Military cyber capabilities - Analysis of developments in defence policy, military capability and defence economics and industry for China, Egypt, Finland, Indonesia, Russia, Senegal and the United States. - A wallchart illustrating global submarine holdings and key trends in subsurface warfare

Download or read book Stronger written by Serhiy Zhadan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how America can strengthen its approach to China by building on its existing advantages “This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the United States can renew its advantages in its competition with China.”—Ambassador Susan E. Rice, former U.S. National Security Advisor “Ryan Hass has provided an indispensable and timely contribution to understanding our critical path forward with China.”—Jon M. Huntsman, former U.S. Ambassador to China and Russia Ryan Hass charts a path forward in America’s relationship and rivalry with China, a path rooted in the relative advantages America already possesses. Hass argues that while competition will remain the defining trait of the relationship, both countries will continue to be impacted—for good or ill—by their capacity to coordinate on common challenges that neither can solve on its own, such as pandemic disease, global economic development, climate change, and nuclear nonproliferation. Hass makes the case that the United States will have greater success in outpacing China economically and outshining it in questions of governance if it focuses more on improving its condition at home than on trying to impede Chinese initiatives. He argues that the task at hand is not to stand in China’s way and, in the process, turn a rising power into an enemy but to renew America’s advantages in its competition with China.

Download or read book Strategic Long Term Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing USA Institutes written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Manufacturing USA Institutes aim to protect national security and increase U.S. competitiveness in manufacturing. The domestic industrial base is critical to supporting and sustaining both military advantage and economic competitiveness. Through these institutes, the DoD is committed to domestically designing and manufacturing the most innovative defense systems. Intended as intensely collaborative applied research and development endeavors among government, industry, and academia, the institutes are envisioned to become lasting, self-sustaining national assets. A long-term strategy is needed to achieve this goal. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently convened a workshop to discuss the long-term sustainability of the Manufacturing USA Institutes. Participants explored different perspectives across multiple disciplines, discussed public-private partnership models, and considered international programs in advanced manufacturing to inform their recommendations regarding the future of the institutes. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Download or read book Lifeline in Danger written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conclusions include: 1) It would be a mistake for the U.S. to seek complete independence for its defense industrial base; 2) Government, industry, and labor all share in the blame for the raging 'adversarial relationship' that exists, but the greater degree of fault is the government's; 3) The problem transcends the Department of Defense and the defense industry; 4) Without stability in the defense acquisition and budgeting process, no real solution is possible; 5) Any solution that works will be expensive; 6) The Defense Industrial Base is not just the prime contractors; 7) Producibility is crucial; 8) The nation needs an 'attitude check'; 9) American industry deserves better support than it has been getting from American government. Recommendations include: 1) A Presidential Commission---on the order of the Packard and Scowcroft Commissions---should be appointed to chart a course; 2) DoD should begin now, before the Commission starts its work, to gather crucial information that does not presently exist; 3) The Commission should re-examine the field of incentives and disincentives in defense production and plan reform of the tangled network of laws and regulations that have led us to the current condition; 4) Avoid hasty legislation; 5) DoD should adopt a more objective stance in its dealings with the defense industry; 6) Prime contractors should nurture the supplier-contractor base.

Download or read book 2018 CFR Title 3 The President e Book written by Office of The Federal Register and published by IntraWEB, LLC and Claitor's Law Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of ‘‘Title 3--The President’’ contains a compilation of Presidential documents and a codification of regulations issued by the Executive Office of the President. Including: Proclamations Executive Orders Other Presidential Documents Presidential Documents Affected During 2017 Statutes Cited as Authority for Presidential Documents

Download or read book Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection written by Ryan K. Baggett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling overview of systems and strategies implemented to safeguard U.S. resources from a plethora of threats, the vulnerabilities and security gaps in these infrastructure systems, and options to enable the future security of the homeland. Since the first edition of this book was published in 2009, significant changes have occurred in the security landscape, both domestically and internationally. This second edition is thoroughly updated to reflect those changes, offering a complete review of the various security and resilience measures currently in place and potential strategies to safeguard life and property within the U.S. homeland. As noted in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Goal, the mission area of protection is vital to the homeland in its focus on actions to protect people, vital interests, and our nation's way of life. With that in mind, this book discusses strategies such as risk analysis and assessment, information sharing, and continuity planning. The authors focus on relevant and timely threats and hazards facing specific infrastructure components including, but not limited to, agriculture and food, banking and finance, water, energy, telecommunications, and transportation. The dynamic posture of critical infrastructure security and resilience (CISR) underscores the importance of an integrated, layered all-hazards approach. In describing this approach, the book includes new chapters on planning and guidance, public and private partnerships, cyber issues and threats, and careers in infrastructure protection. Additions such as discussion questions, learning objectives, and fundamental concepts for each chapter provide additional direction for instructors and students alike.

Download or read book Understanding the War Industry written by Christian Sorensen and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To an ever-increasing extent, the business of America is the business of war. But although Americans live in the shadow of a war economy, few understand the full extent of its power and influence. Thanks to Christian Sorenson's deeply researched book into the military-industrial complex that envelops our society, such ignorance can no longer be an excuse." - ANDREW COCKBURN, author of 'Kill Chain, The Rise of the High Tech Assassins.' “A devastating account of American militarism, brilliantly depicted, and exhaustively researched in an authoritative manner. Sorensen’s book is urgent, fascinating reading..." RICHARD FALK "“I’m adding Christian Sorensen’s new book, Understanding the War Industry , to the list of books I think will convince you to help abolish war and militaries.." DAVID SWANSON World Without War “This meticulously researched book lays out in painstaking detail exactly how our nation has been captured by a war industry that profits from endless conflict and pursues profit at all costs. It will shock you, infuriate you, and hopefully inspire you."MEDEA BENJAMIN, co-director, CODE PINK The War Industry infests the American economy like a cancer, sapping its strength and distorting its creativity while devouring its treasure. Stunning in the depth of its research, Understanding the War Industry documents how the war industry commands the other two sides of the military-industrial-congressional triangle. It lays bare the multiple levers enabling the vast and proliferating war industry to wield undue influence, exploiting financial and legal structures, while co-opting Congress, academia and the media. Spiked with insights into how corporate boardrooms view the troops, overseas bases, and warzones, it assiduously delineates how corporations reap enormous profits by providing a myriad of goods and services devoted to making war, which must be rationalized and used if the game is to go on: advanced weaponry, drones and nukes; invasive information technology; space-based weapons; and special operations—with contracts stuffed with ongoing and proliferating developmental, tertiary and maintenance products for all of it.

Download or read book American Political Development and the Trump Presidency written by Zachary Callen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book about Trump's presidency that makes a brief for the subfield of American political development (in the field of political science). Four factors are considered in this book: (1) the American political party system and partisanship; (2) the saliency of race; (3) the role of the state in American politics; and (4) the fate of democracy"--

Download or read book Emerging Technologies and International Security written by Reuben Steff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on the new international security environment across three levels of analysis. While recent technological developments, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and automation, have the potential to transform international relations in positive ways, they also pose challenges to peace and security and raise new ethical, legal and political questions about the use of power and the role of humans in war and conflict. This book makes a contribution to these debates by considering emerging technologies across three levels of analysis: (1) the international system (systemic level) including the balance of power; (2) the state and its role in international affairs and how these technologies are redefining and challenging the state’s traditional roles; and (3) the relationship between the state and society, including how these technologies affect individuals and non-state actors. This provides specific insights at each of these levels and generates a better understanding of the connections between the international and the local when it comes to technological advance across time and space The chapters examine the implications of these technologies for the balance of power, examining the strategies of the US, Russia, and China to harness AI, robotics and automation (and how their militaries and private corporations are responding); how smaller and less powerful states and non-state actors are adjusting; the political, ethical and legal implications of AI and automation; what these technologies mean for how war and power is understood and utilized in the 21st century; and how these technologies diffuse power away from the state to society, individuals and non-state actors. This volume will be of much interest to students of international security, science and technology studies, law, philosophy, and international relations.