Defense One: Are America’s Companies Ready to Fight Russia & China? New Study Aims to Find Out
Reagan Institute panel sets out to identify the ‘National Security Innovation Base’ from workforce skills to technologies, labs, companies and academia.
What does the U.S. military need to confront Russia and China? A broad-ranging study of the required technologies and workforce that has been commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Institute, host of the annual Reagan National Defense Forum, hopes to identify just that.
The effort is expected to look beyond large defense companies and their suppliers into the commercial technology sector — including companies whose employees have resisted executives’ push to seek more business with the military.
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WNU Editor: With many Silicon Valley workers voicing their displeasure on working with the Pentagon, coupled with concerns that the infrastructure required to maintain America's defense industry is declining, this is a study that is long overdue. The big worry for me is China. China does have the manufacturing base to develop, maintain, and grow their military. And I can easily see China 10, 20, or 30 years from now having a industrial/military base that will match or (maybe) surpass America's industrial/military base.