Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment
Abstract
IBAS mission is to strengthen the force posture and readiness of the U.S. Defense Manufacturing and Industrial Base to respond at will to national security needs. The IBAS program has a multi-pronged approach to identify projects: 1) assessments of the national technology and industrial base by the OSD Acquisition & Sustainment (A&S), Office of Industrial Policy (INDPOL) as directed by 10 U.S. Code 2505, and 2) working directly in partnership with defense programs, and 3) working directly with industry. INDPOL collaborates with the services and agencies in performing assessments under the Title 10 USC Section 2505 program to identify elements of the industrial base critical to a healthy and resilient defense industrial base: 1) Gaps in national-security-related domestic manufacturing capabilities 2) Threatened, single, or sole source capabilities especially within the lower tiers 3) Foreign Dependency from high risk sources or countries 4) Education and manufacturing workforce skills The continued corrosion on the industrial base is a direct and severe threat to National Security, especially with the reemergence of long-term, strategic competition of authoritarian peer nations. FY 2020 and beyond investment strategies will also be informed by, 1) the findings of Executive Order (EO) 13806, "Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States," and 2) the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS). The EO assessment identified nearly 300 risks across 16 sectors; concludes the current state and trajectory of the U.S. industrial base and our capacity to support readiness is in question; and requires significant changes including increased investment for the industrial base. Findings from the nine traditional defense sectors and seven cross-cutting sectors will be used to inform both product specific investments as well as developing enterprise-wide initiatives to mitigate and capture domestic capabilities. IBAS investments seek to ameliorate industrial base and manufacturing issues to strengthen the defense industrial base. All projects are evaluated for industrial base risks using fragility and criticality risk criteria, similar to the more familiar probability and consequence risk criteria. Fragility examines characteristics that make a specific capability likely to be disrupted. Criticality examines characteristics that make a specific capability difficult to replace if disrupted. IBAS currently focuses efforts and investments in four categories: Radars, Sensors, and Electronics Sectors; Materials Sector; Munitions and Missiles Sector; and Cross-cutting Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Mitigation. Cornerstone Other Transaction Agreement (OTA): Enhanced efficiency of IBAS program execution will be supported by a new non-Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) OTA procurement vehicle called Cornerstone, established February 2018 in partnership between ODASD (Industrial Policy) and the Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC). Cornerstone was specifically designed for industrial base investments to meet the Departments needs to improve readiness and sustainment through proactive engagement and investment within and across supply chains. Cornerstone provides the ability to access (18) different industry sectors under one agreement where all parties have agreed to one common management agreement and one intellectual property agreement, and it allows the Government to open or direct solicit tasks as legally appropriate against OTA statues. Cornerstone’s period of performance is “in perpetuity” with no overall ceiling, with task award ceilings. IBAS authorities coupled with Cornerstone enable the department to efficiently execute IBAS investments – positioning the industrial base to modernize at pace with our military.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 819_0607210D8Z_7_0400_PB_2020
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