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This year's iteration of Vital Signs: The Health and Readiness of the Defense Industrial Base marks the third consecutive year that the National Defense Industrial Association offers an unclassified analysis [...]

As I sat in my basement Feb. 24 watching live television coverage of Russian tanks roll into Ukraine, I thought the Russia-Ukraine War would be over within a few weeks, [...]

Nick Jones is NDIA's director of strategy. * The day after Thanksgiving, I awoke to a cacophony of noise behind my backyard. Hammers, construction equipment, blaring music. I was a [...]

ND Wes Hallman is NDIA senior vice president of policy, Nick Jones, director of regulatory policy and Kea Matory, director of legislative policy. 20 NATI ONAL DEFENSE • MAY 2 0 21 n In February, the National Defense Industrial Association released Vital Signs 2021: The Health and Readiness of the Defense Industrial Base - an annual measure of the defense industry's health through eight conditions describing the business environment defense firms coped with over the preceding year. Congress should also consider creating incentives for new entrants while allowing for the adoption of businesses models that are new to the Defense Department to stem the decrease in number of firms in the industrial base. [Extracted from the article]