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Rack MD – Defense Industrial Base

Aisle M — Modernization

Library:  Main Page — Professional Development (A) — Defense Enterprise (E) — Force Structure (F) — Modernization (M) — Personnel (P) — Readiness (R) — Special Enterprises (S) — Resource Management (X) — References (Z)

Modernization (M):  Acquisition Frameworks (MA) — Capabilities Development (MC) — Defense Industrial Base (MD) — Program Management (MP) — Requirements Development (MR) — Science & Technology (MS) — Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation (MT) — Major Weapons Systems (MW)

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This rack provides resources regarding the capabilities, capacities, and conditions of the defense industrial base relevant to modernization (for resources on the sustainment base and organic industrial base, refer to Aisle R, racks RO for Organic Industrial Base and RS for Defense Sustainment). Topics include intellectual property, contracting, supply chains (e.g., rare earth minerals and other upstream resources), and innovation.

Shelf MD.00 — General

This shelf contains general resources on the defense industrial base — will be divided into separate shelves at a future date.​​​​​​​

Faculty Publications:
  • None.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
Strategies and Reports:
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):

Shelf MD.IN — National Industrial Security Program

This program is run by the DoD’s Information Security Oversight Office and is also known as the NISP. The NISP safeguards classified information the Federal
Government or foreign governments release to contractors, licensees, grantees, and certificate holders. This revision adds provisions incorporating executive branch insider threat policy and minimum standards, identifies the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as new cognizant security agencies (CSAs), and adds responsibilities for all CSAs and non-CSA departments and agencies (to reflect oversight functions that are already detailed for private sector entities in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM)). This revision also makes other administrative changes to be consistent with recent revisions to the NISPOM and with updated regulatory language and style.

Faculty Publications:
  • None.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
Strategies and Reports:
  • None.
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
  • None.

Title image credit:  U.S. Army photo, public domain.

Modernization (M):  Acquisition Frameworks (MA) — Capabilities Development (MC) — Defense Industrial Base (MD) — Program Management (MP) — Requirements Development (MR) — Science & Technology (MS) — Research, Development, Test, & Evaluation (MT) — Major Weapons Systems (MW)

Library:  Main Page — Professional Development (A) — Defense Enterprise (E) — Force Structure (F) — Modernization (M) — Personnel (P) — Readiness (R) — Special Enterprises (S) — Resource Management (X) — References (Z)