Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, US Army Ret., director of the Heritage Foundation’s National Defense Research Initiative, and Bill Greenwalt, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, discuss the future of the US defense industrial base and share recommendations for strengthening it during a Sept. 28, 2017, interview, at the think tank’s Washington headquarters. The interview was conducted after the “Assessing the Defense Industrial Base Event” panel, cohosted by Heritage and One Defense.