Zoom out...Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States (They have to swallow the Single SOLE SOURCE Risk Because Students! WHY? They HAVE to Subsidize the Over 21 Programs of Record. There's nothing more clear. China's Belt and Road Initiative Extends to the Adriatic.)

Even the bone-hand Analysts seemed to have no grasp of the Geo-Politcal situation.

A. A Challenging Economic Playing Field Many nation states have implemented coherent investment plans and tax policies, such as Germany’s Industry 4.0 initiative, forcing U.S. firms to compete against nation states with well resourced policies to support their domestic industries.

C. China’s Strategies of Economic Aggression One of the Chinese Communist Party’s primary industrial initiatives, Made in China 2025,75 targets artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, autonomous and new energy vehicles, high performance medical devices, high-tech ship components, and other emerging industries critical to national defense. 76 In order to obtain the capabilities needed to support these advanced technologies, China relies on both legal and illicit means, including foreign direct and venture investments, open source collection, human collectors, espionage, cyber operations, and the evasion of U.S. export control restrictions to acquire intellectual property and critical technologies.

China’s capture of foreign technologies and intellectual property,109 particularly the systematic theft of U.S. weapons systems110 and the illicit and forced transfer of dual-use technology, has eroded the military balance between the U.S. and China.111 Such transfers aid China’s efforts to gain a qualitative technological advantage over the U.S. across key domains, including naval, air, space, and cyber.112

2. Single Source When only one supplier is qualified to provide a required capability, single source risk exists. The key distinction between sole source and single source is that for a single source, multiple potential vendors may exist, but only one source is qualified to produce materials for the U.S. Government.

https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/05/2002048904/-1/-1/1/ASSESSING-AND-STRENGTHENING-THE-MANUFACTURING-AND%20DEFENSE-INDUSTRIAL-BASE-AND-SUPPLY-CHAIN-RESILIENCY.PDF