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Industry Group Focusing On Core Needs Of Defense Industrial Base, AIA Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, December 14th, 2017

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Industry Group Focusing On Core Needs Of Defense Industrial Base, AIA Says

Dave Melcher, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association. Photo: AIA

In response to President Donald Trump’s directive in July asking the Pentagon to assess the health and needs of the nation’s defense industrial base, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) has formed a working group of industry officials that is focusing on four pillars and 10 priorities it wants the Defense Department to address.The pillars include “robust” and consistent defense spending, improvements in acquisition policy, workforce investments around emerging technical needs such as artificial intelligence, a security clearance process that works…

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