Manufacturers, large and small, are critical to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with small manufacturers supplying almost 50 billion dollars worth of goods and services to the DoD annually. New challenges face the DoD today:

Typical DoD acquisition practices further compound DoD challenges. Long design-to-acquisition lead times, as well as increasing service life extension programs, mean that support requirements for military systems generally extend from 25 to 30 years, as opposed to the 4 to 7 year support cycle expected for many commercial systems (graph). With the primary driver in the commercial market being profit, when a part is no longer economical to produce manufacturers will shut down product lines and move on to more profitable items. Diminishing manufacturing sources, material shortages, the shrinking number of DoD procurements, and an overall reduction of the defense industrial base all combine to bolster the need for replacement of DoD products with newer technology.

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