The Changing Capability of the Textile Industry to Support National Defense
Abstract
This study is directly related to the Army's research and development on new and improved materials for the soldier's clothing and personal life support equipment system that could be produced quickly from a broad base of the textile industry's facilities to meet the logistical support requirements of a possible future mobilization. Recent trends in the textile industry necessitate a reappraisal of the capability of the textile industry to provide adequate support to the military services in some future national emergency. These trends include: increasing textile imports, the revolutionary changes occurring in textile manufacturing, and the relative shrinkage in size of the industry's broadwoven goods manufacturing capacity in relation to total consumer demand. This report attempts to formulate some of the problems which can be foreseen at this time, and to indicate some of the factors that would be involved in assuring an adequate supply of essential military textile materials. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- ADA043236
Entities
People
- Stephen J. Kennedy
Organizations
- United States Army Soldier Systems Center