On today’s program, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Jerry McGinn, the director of the Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, Dr. Bill Greenwalt of the American Enterprise Institute, and Steve Grundman of the Atlantic Council and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University — who all led the Pentagon’s Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy office — discuss the DoD’s upcoming industrial strategy, what’s necessary to dramatically increase weapons production, the importance of harnessing commercial industry to manufacture defense products in volume, the Pentagon’s Replicator effort, designing weapons for mass production and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
