Eric Chewning, deputy US assistant defense secretary for manufacturing and industrial base policy, identifies “five systemic causes of risk” in the US defense-industrial base (including the Budget Control Act and “the general decline of the US manufacturing base”), ways to strengthen it, America First trade policy, innovation and more during an exclusive, wide-ranging Jan. 22, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington following its “Charting a New Course for the Industrial Base” event.
