Fixing the defense industrial base isn’t a task that any single entity can accomplish. Rather, it will require a coordinated effort between the Department of Defense (DOD), Congress, and industry.

May 7, 2025 Revitalizing the Defense Industrial Base for the 21st Century Hear from Senator Eric Schmitt and authors of The Heritage Foundation’s new report, “A Strategy to Revitalize the ...

The Department of Defense and Wall Street can work together by harnessing the strength of American financial markets.

The following is the July 24, 2025, Government Accountability Office report, Defense Industrial Base: Actions Needed to Address Risks Posed by Dependence on Foreign Suppliers. From the report What GAO ...

This is causing both a tactical deficit and technical debt the defense-industrial base is struggling to reconcile. In the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy has been launching $2 million Block V Tomahawk Land ...

America’s defense industrial base is unprepared to meet the wartime demands of the 21st century. The U.S. faces a shortfall in production capacity at a time when the global threat environment is ...

Washington should avoid a real fight with serious great power rivals anytime soon—until the Pentagon can make real changes to its acquisitions process.

Cadenazzi said he presumed that the industrial base policy office had conducted an analysis of the tariffs’ impact on the defense industrial base, but that it hasn’t yet been provided to him ...

The U.S. military is going through its “reps and sets” via training, exercises, and wargames to make sure it is ready for a major war. The defense industrial base is only just getting started on ...

Michael Cadenazzi was approved Tuesday by the U.S. Senate’s Armed Services Committee to be an assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy.

Cadenazzi said he presumed that the industrial base policy office had conducted an analysis of the tariffs’ impact on the defense industrial base, but that it hasn’t yet been provided to him ...