Findings from Existing Data on the Department of Defense Industrial Base

Abstract

Members of Congress and other policymakers have been seeking ways to ensure (or monitor) the health and effective management of the defense supplier base. In response, the Department of Defense (DoD) launched a Sector-by-Sector, Tier-by-Tier assessment to better understand and quantify the defense industrial base. One part of this initiative includes extensive surveys of about 5,000 companies that provide defense goods and services. Given the time and expense of such surveys, as well as diminishing budgets, DoD could benefit from faster and cheaper ways to learn about the industrial base from existing data, which are more comprehensive than that in a survey sample and are continually collected to enable tracking of trends. This report explores how DoD can gain information on its industrial base by combining data that the federal government already collects. It demonstrates through sample analyses that such data could answer questions that policymakers may have on DoD-wide suppliers, contractors, industries, weapon systems, and supply-chain risks.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA611769

Entities

People

  • Clifford Grammich
  • Judith D. Mele
  • Nancy Y. Moore

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Congress
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Defense Industry
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fabrication
  • Guided Missiles
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Manufacturing
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Small Business
  • Supply Chain
  • Systems Engineering
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design