Defense budgets are flat. Procurement is outpaced by operations and maintenance spending. The number of major aerospace programs is down. Production line workers are old, and attracting talented young engineers to careers in the defense sector is challenging. Is it crunch time for the aerospace industrial base? A wide consensus says yes. "It seems hard to believe: At a moment of historic highs in defense spending, there is growing concern about the future of American defense industry as well as the national security industrial and scientific base," said Michael E. O'Hanlon and Peter W. Singer in a February Brookings Institution study.
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机译：国防预算持平。采购超过了运营和维护支出。主要航空航天计划的数量正在减少。生产线工人很老，要吸引有才华的年轻工程师进入国防部门的职业充满挑战。航空工业基地现在是关键时刻吗？广泛的共识是。迈克尔·奥汉隆（Michael E. O'Hanlon）和彼得·W（Peter W）说：“似乎难以置信：在国防开支达到历史最高水平的时刻，人们越来越担心美国国防工业以及国家安全工业和科学基础的未来。”歌手在二月布鲁金斯学会研究。
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