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weapons stocks, improve military readiness, provide a reliable demand signal to industry, increase overall manufacturing capacity for materiel, and optimize the timing of capital investments.

Thus, the congressional language explaining the need for multiyear purchase of munitions cited the need to rebuild U.S. These and other initiatives are receiving broad bipartisan support in Congress as lawmakers embrace the need to do business differently while the fate of Ukraine is uncertain.Īlthough many Republicans on Capitol Hill question the broader industrial moves being made by the White House such as stimulating the domestic manufacture of electric vehicles, they recognize there is only one customer for military goods, and that customer-the government-must therefore take the lead in shaping demand. The defense department has begun making selective investments in key segments of the industrial base such as the fabrication of composite parts for hypersonic weapons, pursuant to authorities provided by the longstanding Defense Production Act.The Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering has redirected the efforts of the department’s most prestigious advisory panel to focus on identifying and mitigating supply-chain vulnerabilities such as dependence on foreign sources of minerals and machinery.

The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment has established a Joint Production Accelerator Cell that aims to shift the department from reactive responses to supply-chain challenges to a more pro-active approach that promotes the use of innovations such as digital engineering.

The president’s 2024 budget request proposes to mingle multiyear purchases of diverse munitions that rely on similar components and production inputs, in a process known as Large Lot Procurement.

The Pentagon was granted authority by the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act to sign multiyear procurement contracts for over a dozen key munitions, a departure from the traditional practice of funding such purchases on an annual basis.

The Department of Defense currently has so many initiatives in train to bolster industrial capacity and responsiveness that it is difficult for outsiders to keep track of them.