Encourage defense acquisition workforce life cycle logistics members -- and product support managers in particular -- to take a look at a new DoD announcement entitled “State of Competition in the Defense Industrial Base”.

While the focus of the new report was in response to Executive Order 14036 on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, rather than EO 14017 Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains, “…the report discusses the current state of competition in the DIB and recommends DoD actions to promote a more diverse and expanded industrial base. The report also outlines actions that DoD is taking to specifically promote competition in its small business vendor base as well as in five priority industrial base sectors, including microelectronics, missiles and munitions, high-capacity batteries, castings and forgings, and critical minerals and materials. The report made five recommendations:

• Strengthening merger oversight
• Addressing intellectual property limitations
• Increasing new entrants
• Increasing opportunities for small businesses
• Implementing sector-specific supply chain resiliency plans”

Additional details on each of these recommendations can be found in the full report entitled “Department of Defense Report: State of Competition within the Defense Industrial Base Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment” dated February 2022. Additionally, other recent DAU LOG Blog posts on defense industrial base topics of potential interest also include:

• New Report on Defense Industrial Base Investments
• New HASC Defense Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Report
• New Report on Industrial Surge Capability Brittleness
• New Fiscal Year 2020 Industrial Capabilities Report
• Fiscal year 2019 DoD Industrial Capabilities Report
• Committee Hearing on DoD Organic Industrial Base
• New Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Forces
• New GAO reports on DoD Workforce and Supplier Base