1、TestimonyThinking Smarter About DefenseOctOber 24,2011Statement before the houSe armed ServiceS committeeby barry Watts Senior Fellow,center for Strategic and budgetary Assessmentschairman Shuster,Mr.Larsen,and Members of the Defense business Panel,thank you for inviting me to testify at todays hear
2、ing on the imperative to preserve essential elements of U.S.defense industrial base.As you are aware,I and my cSbA colleague todd Harrison recently published a report on the challenge of sustaining the most critical components of the U.S.defense industrial base(DIb).this report focused on the need t
3、o develop a coherent,long-term government strategy for sustaining design and production capabilities in a small number(less than ten)of areas critical to meeting the principal challenges to American national security during the next couple decades.I should point out that our analysis was based on ex
4、amining major defense acquisition programs and first-tier or“prime”suppliers.We did not delve into lower-tier subcontractors,materials suppliers or the services aspects of the DIb.Nor did we address,as Jacques Gansler has done in his 2011 book,Democracys Arsenal,regulatory constraints affecting the
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