Pentagon Industrial Base Chief Predicts Pain

Defense News: WASHINGTON — We’re from the government, and we’re here to help. Except when we won’t.

That was the message the Pentagon’s chief for industrial base and manufacturing policy, Brett Lambert, conveyed April 25 during a speech sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

Lambert offered a somewhat grim assessment of the near-term future of the military industrial base, one in which the Pentagon must identify the most critical aspects of the base that it will need to keep warm as it buys fewer platforms.

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