New Initiatives at the DoW's Office of Industrial Base Growth : Hudson Institute , August 7 , 2026
New Initiatives at the DoW's Office of Industrial Base Growth : Hudson Institute , August 7 , 2026
From the report: "Revitalizing and expanding the United States defense industrial base (DIB) is a top priority for the second Trump administration, which recognizes that “American national power depends on a strong industrial sector capable of meeting both peacetime and wartime production demands.”1 In line with this assessment, the 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) set the goal of making the United States “the world’s premier arsenal, one that can produce not only for ourselves but also for our allies and partners at scale, rapidly, and at the highest levels of quality.”2 The Department of War (DoW) has been driving this effort by implementing long-overdue reforms across the national security ecosystem.
Yet much of this important work is happening out of the public eye. As a result, interested individuals often have difficulty understanding the purpose of key reforms and cannot appreciate the progress taking place.
The Arsenal Papers seek to highlight these key policy developments and reforms in the defense industrial sector and explain their significance. The objective is to foster a better understanding of how DoW is working to increase warfighting readiness, supply chain resilience, and the nation’s ability to rapidly scale defense production in response to emerging global threats. The reports will not cover all of the DoW’s efforts, which would be unrealistic. Rather, they will be episodic explainers drawn from Hudson Institute’s conversations with key policy officials."
Authors - Schadlow, Nadia, Dressler, MichaelSubjects
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