Defense industrial base unprepared for quick conflict responses, report warns

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Nick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief of Washington Technology, covers the latest Baroni center report, Before the Balloon Goes Up: Mobilizing the Defense Industrial Base Now to Prepare for Future Conflict."

Writes Wakeman, "A study from George Mason University's Baroni Center for Government Contracting calls for a national strategy to bolster U.S. readiness and production capacity. . . . [and] "offers readers some history lessons and recommendations on how to move forward."

“We do not have the capacity to equip and sustain our forces in the event of a major conflict in the Taiwan Strait or elsewhere,” said Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Baroni Center and the report’s author. “That’s why it is so imperative that government and industry leaders learn from past crises to create and implement a new national strategy to mobilize the defense industrial base and prepare now for future conflict.”

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