DoD Programs Keeping the Manufacturing and Industrial Base Sufficient, Stable, Competitive
Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy (MIBP) has oversight responsibility for these Department of Defense programs that help ensure the domestic and global manufacturing and industrial base is fully capable of meeting the current and future product and service needs of the Warfighter.
Defense Production Act
The Defense Production Act (DPA) grants the President powers to ensure the availability and timely delivery of products, materials, and services to military and civilian agencies. It codifies a robust Presidential legal authority to enlist industry to give priority to national security production and provides for statutory review of foreign investment in U.S. companies.
Defense Production Act Committee (DPAC)
The Defense Production Act Committee (DPAC) is an interagency body, established in 2009, to advise the President on DPA authorities and policies to ensure timely availability and delivery of industrial resources to meet national security needs. MIBP serves as the Executive Secretariat for the DPAC. A core mission of the DPAC Executive Secretariat is to provide overall policy guidance and execution of DPA authorities.
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Title I: Defense Priorities and Allocations System (DPAS)
The Defense Priorities and Allocations System (DPAS) is a mechanism to assure the availability of industrial resources to meet national defense requirements and provides a framework for rapidly expanding industrial resources during national emergencies.
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To ensure the mutual supply of defense goods and services originating outside the United States, the DoD has entered into bilateral Security of Supply arrangements. These arrangements allow the DoD to request priority delivery for DoD contracts, subcontracts, or orders from companies in these countries.
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Title III: Expanding Production Capability and Supply
The mission of Title III of the Defense Production Act is to create assured, affordable and commercially viable production capabilities and capacities for items essential for national defense.
Learn more about Title IIITitle VII: Ensuring Security of Foreign Investments in U.S. Businesses
Under Title VII of the Defense Production Act the President has delegated authority to review foreign acquisitions of U.S.-based firms and suspend or block them if they present credible threats to national security.
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Defense Manufacturing Technology Program
The Department of Defense ManTech Program develops technologies and processes to ensure the affordable, timely production and sustainment of defense systems.
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Assessment of the Industrial Base
To improve the DoD's ability to develop successful acquisition strategies and to deliver advanced capabilities to the warfighter at reasonable cost to the taxpayer, MIBP is pursuing multiple, concurrent efforts to map and better understand the entire defense industrial base.
Learn more about S2T2North American Technology and Industrial Base Organization (NATIBO)
Promoting the U.S. and Canadian Technology and Industrial Base
The North American Technology and Industrial Base Organization (NATIBO), is chartered to promote a cost effective, healthy technology and industrial base that is responsive to the national and economic security needs of the United States and Canada.
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