US DoD database aims to protect industrial base

摘要

The Department of Defense (DoD) has almost finished compiling information for an extensive database of defence and aerospace companies that it is using to help those firms weather the storm of across-the-board US federal budget cuts should those cuts continue into 2014. "We are now entering the second year where we are likely to face sequestration," said Elana Broitman, acting deputy assistant secretary of defence for manufacturing and industrial base policy, on 18 September.