MILITARY SPEAKERS SEEK TO BOLSTER INDUSTRIAL BASE, STRENGTHEN TIES TO INDUSTRY

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The U.S. Department of Defense will roll out a "trusted capital" program this fall aimed at bolstering the domestic industrial base for small unmanned aircraft, said Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, one of the keynote speakers at this year's AUVSI Unmanned Systems Defense. Protection. Security conference in Washington. "We are not innovating on the business side of things as quickly as technology is being innovated and applied to warfighter missions," Lord said. One effort afoot is to strengthen the defense industrial base in areas including rare earths and small UAS, both areas where "China has flooded our market, to the point where we do not have a resilient and secure industrial base. What has this done for us? It's allowed us to get presidential determinations signed out that allow us to spend money in these areas to strengthen the supply base," she said.