The Pentagon should develop a “clear, strategic” plan for the defense industrial base because the needs of the base have not been appropriately assessed in the past, according to the Aerospace Industries Association. Fred Downey, vice president for national security at AIA, told Defense Daily during a phone call following a presentation yesterday at the Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies that a “clear, strategic” plan is simple. “A strategy always includes the goal you’re going trying to achieve in some…
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