Final Report of the Defense Science Board Study on the Defense Industrial and Technological Base, Volume 1 of 2

Abstract

The Task Force found that the industrial and technology base faces new and difficult challenges, including world-wide interdependence on resources, an impending loss of technological leadership, and insufficient long-term investment by industry because of a propensity toward short-term planning. The result is a significant difference between industry's capabilities and the tasks that national security plans assume it can perform.The Task Force makes ten major recommendations to reverse this situation.