Industrial Policy (IP)
The Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy (IP) works to sustain an environment that ensures the industrial base on which the Department of Defense (DoD) depends is reliable, cost-effective, and sufficient to meet DoD requirements.
Mission & Roles
Industrial Policy's mission is to ensure that DoD policies, procedures, and actions: stimulate and support vigorous competition and innovation in the industrial base supporting defense; and establish and sustain cost-effective industrial and technological capabilities that assure military readiness and superiority.
Industrial Policy works to:
- Ensure a reliable, cost-effective, and sufficient industrial base
- Monitor industry readiness, competitiveness, ability to innovate, and financial stability as the DoD moves to capabilities-based acquisitions in an era of network-centric warfare
- Leverage DoD research and development, acquisition, and logistics decisions to promote innovation, competition, military readiness, and national security
- Leverage statutory processes (for example, the Defense Priorities and Allocations System, Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust evaluations, Exon-Florio Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States evaluations) to promote innovation, competition, military readiness, and national security
Initiatives
Leadership Spotlight
William C. Greenwalt Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy
Bill Greenwalt is the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy. He is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) and the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) on all matters relating to the defense industrial base. Read the Full Bio