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Sunday, May 12, 2019

Look at all the Inked spilled on Sonobuoys. Someday. AS referenced "capital" expansion in his remarks. Having only "ONE" domestic supplier makes this a "walkover" in the effort to manufacture microdisplays sought by Uncle Sam.

"Part of what we wanted to do was inject capital to make sure there was support to the industrial base so that you could have two or more viable suppliers," Chewning, the former industrial policy head, told Defense News recently. "It just made sense given the existing shortfall, and what had been allowed to happen within the industrial base, that we used the DPA Title III authorities to create incentives to expand production and strengthen."

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-is-at-risk-of-not-making-enough-sonobuoys-to-hunt-submarines-2019-5

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