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Aisle R – Readiness
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Disclaimer: The inclusion of resources here is for informational, historical, and research purposes only and is provided as a service for US Army War College faculty, students, and graduates to support their educational and professional requirements. These may include outdated or superseded materials. The inclusion of these materials does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Army War College, the U.S. Army, or Department of Defense.
This rack provides resources related to the definition and conditions of the military’s organic industrial and sustaining bases that provide vital sustainment support to the warfighter. It also covers general manufacturing challenges that may preclude adequate equipping and sustaining of the warfighter such as supply chain disruptions and materiel shortages.
This shelf contains general resources pertaining to the theory and practice of managing and sustaining the organic industrial base.
Faculty Publications:
- None.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
- None.
Strategies and Reports:
- Army Materiel Command, Army Organic Industrial Base Strategic Plan: 2012 Plan (for 2012-2022) | 2006 Plan
- <name redacted>, Emergency Access to Strategic and Critical Materials: The National Defense Stockpile, Report #R47833 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2023),
- Department of Defense, Office of Industrial Policy, Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency in the United States, Report to President Donald J. Trump by the Interagency Task Force in Fulfillment of Executive Order 13806 (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2018).
- House Armed Services Committee, The Department of Defense Organic Industrial Base: Challenges, Solutions and Readiness Impacts, hearing before the Subcommittee on Readiness, 116th Cong., 1st sess., HASC No. 116-50 (Washington, DC, November 21, 2019), also available at https://www.congress.gov/116/chrg/CHRG-116hhrg39807/CHRG-116hhrg39807.pdf
- House Armed Services Committee, Report of the Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force, 117th Cong, 1st sess. (Washington, DC, July 22, 2021), https://armedservices.house.gov/_cache/files/e/5/e5b9a98f-9923-47f6-a5b5-ccf77ebbb441/7E26814EA08F7F701B16D4C5FA37F043.defense-critical-supply-chain-task-force-report.pdf
- Humphries, Marc. Critical Minerals and U.S. Public Policy, Report #R45810 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2019).
- Lexington Institute, The Army’s Organic Industrial Base: What is the Future for Depots and Arsenals? (Arlington, VA: Lexington Institute, 2005), https://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/the-armys-organic-industrial-base-what-is-the-future-for-depots-and-arsenals/
- Miller, Tom D., The Defense Sustainment Industrial Base — A Primer (policy paper, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2010), https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-defense-sustainment-industrial-base-a-primer/
- Peters, Heidi M., Defense Primer: U.S. Defense Industrial Base, Report #IF10548 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2020).
- Peters, Heidi M., Defense Primer: Acquiring Specialty Metals and Sensitive Materials, Report #IF11226 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2021).
- Platzer, Michaela D., Buying American: Protecting U.S. Manufacturing Through the Berry and Kissell Amendments, Report #R44850 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2017).
- Williams, Lynn M. and Jason A. Purdy, Defense Primer: Department of Defense Maintenance Depots, Report #IF10768 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2017).
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
- Balaram, V. “Rare Earth Elements: A review of Applications, Occurrences, Exploration, Analysis, Recycling, and Environmental Impact.” Geoscience Frontiers 10, no. 4 (July 2019): 1285-1303, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987119300258
- Haraburda, Scott S. “Conventional Munitions Industrial Base,” Land Warfare Paper #113 (Washington, DC: Association of the United States Army, 2017), https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/files/publications/LWP-113-Conventional-Munitions-Industrial-Base.pdf
- Hitchens, Theresa. “DoD Must Brace for Long-Term Supply Chain Problems; Big Mergers Likely,” Breaking Defense, April 28, 2020, https://breakingdefense.com/2020/04/dod-must-brace-for-long-term-supply-chain-problems-big-mergers-likely/
- Judson, Jen. “US Army Document Details Plan to Update WWII-Era Ammo Plants and Depots”, DefenseNews, April 18, 2022, https://www.defensenews.com/land/2022/04/18/us-army-document-details-plan-to-update-wwii-era-ammo-plants-and-depots/
- Nissen, Chris et al., “Deliver Uncompromised: A Strategy for Supply Chain Security and Resilience and Response to the Changing Character of War,” technical paper, MITRE, August 2018, https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/pr-18-2417-deliver-uncompromised-MITRE-study-26AUG2019.pdf
- O’Connell, Caolionn. Unraveling the Gordian Knot: Considering Supply Chain Resiliency, testimony presented before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, October 14, 2021), https://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CTA1774-1.html
- Silberglit, Richard et al., Critical Materials: Present Danger to U.S. Manufacturing (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2013), https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR133.html
- Schultz, Dennis, et al. “Sustainment in the Military: Maintaining Technological Advantage Over the Life Span of Military Systems,” Deloitte, July 23, 2019, https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/public-sector/sustainment-in-the-military.html
- Wagner, Richard E. “Optimizing Defense Utilization of Contract Services to Mitigate the Threat of a Hollow Force,” Updated version (course paper, Course: Private Sector Support to Operations, Washington, DC: Eisenhower School, 2014).
- Watts, Barry D. Sustaining the U.S. Defense Industrial Base as a Strategic Asset (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 2013), https://csbaonline.org/research/publications/sustaining-the-u-s-defense-industrial-base-as-a-strategic-asset
- Wiles, Matt and David Chinn, “Supply Chain Transformation Under Fire”, McKinsey on Government 5 (Spring 2010): 50-55, https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/alumni%20center/pdf/mog_supply_chain.pdf
- Zhou, Yuan “Electronic Waste Export Regulations: How the Responsible Electronics Recycling Act Can Protect the Defense Supply Chain from Counterfeit Electronic Parts,” Public Contract Law Journal 43, no. 3 (Spring 2014): 527-546, HeinOnline
Additional Resources (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
- Shih, Willy. “Willy Shih on Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World”, Committee for Sydney, August 15, 2021, video, 57:58, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEThYIZGmKs
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