The RAND National Security Research Division recently issued a new research report of potential interest entitled “Keeping the Defense Industrial Base Afloat During COVID-19: A Review of Department of Defense and Federal Government Policies and Investments in the Defense Industrial Base”. Key findings, according to the report, included:

• “The U.S. government and DoD made significant investments in the DIB throughout the early months of the COVID-19 crisis
  • Their investments aimed to help struggling companies maintain financial solvency and keep national security supply chains operational.
• Small businesses in the DIB benefited from federal and DoD policies implemented during the pandemic
  • Small business DoD contractors in the manufacturing sector had high uptake of benefits from the PPP.
  • Most of the DoD contractors taking advantage of the PPP had fewer than 100 employees.”

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