Transforming the Defense Industrial Base: A Roadmap
Abstract
This report sketches a road map to a transformed industrial base for legacy and emerging defense suppliers, as well as for senior leadership in the Department of Defense. It is built on case studies of 24 emerging defense suppliers who could grow to be tomorrow's defense giants. These are companies not unlike the Boeing of 28 employees in 1916. All have some business with the Department of Defense, but unlike today's giants, their annual revenues are often less than $10 million and they are made up of dozens - not thousands - of employees. None of these companies wants to remain small, but all the companies in our case studies had difficulties finding their place in the defense enterprise and had experienced growing pains transitioning technologies they viewed as important to the Department and to transformation. As a product of its time, this report is informed by the lessons learned in Operation Enduring Freedom about fielding systems quickly and combining them in new and different ways. It also heeds the Secretary's transformation mandate, attempting to make the emerging defense enterprise more transparent so that all companies - current and prospective, global and domestic, small and large - can better find their place in the United States defense enterprise and its decision-making processes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA492918
Entities
People
- Dawn Vehmeier
- Gary Powell
- Michael Caccuitto