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A draft copy of the new National Defense Industrial Strategy says American companies can’t build weapons fast enough to meet global demand.

America’s defense industry is struggling to achieve the kind of speed and responsiveness to stay ahead in a high-tech arms race with competitors such as China, an unreleased draft of a new Pentagon report on the defense industry warns.

The first ever National Defense Industrial Strategy, which is set to be released in the coming weeks by Pentagon acquisition chief William LaPlante, is meant to be a comprehensive look at what the Pentagon needs in order to tap into the expertise of small tech firms, while funding and supporting traditional companies to move faster to develop new tech.

As it stands now, the U.S. defense industrial base “does not possess the capacity, capability, responsiveness, or resilience required to satisfy the full range of military production needs at speed and scale,” according to a draft version of the report, obtained by POLITICO.

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[–] CollisionResistance@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

US defense spending is close to a trillion. China's is less than a third of that.

And how about an effin audit. No?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-fails-audit-sixth-year-row-2023-11-16/

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The way China organizes its defense spending keeps a lot of it off the books. There are many corporations that are government controlled which engage in research, espionage and military weapons production that are not in the central government’s books.

The CCPs military spend is much higher than they let on.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Also salaries are lower.

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