National Defense Industrial Strategy Released

The Department of Defense released its inaugural National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) on Jan. 11, 2024. The NDIS will guide the Department's engagement, policy development, and investment in the industrial base over the next three to five years. Taking its lead from the National Defense Strategy (NDS), this strategy will catalyze generational change from the existing defense industrial base to a more robust, resilient, and dynamic modernized defense industrial ecosystem.

NDIS Strategic Priorities

• Resilient supply chains that can securely produce the products, services, and technologies needed now and in the future at speed, scale, and cost.
• Workforce readiness will provide for a sufficiently skilled, and staffed workforce that is diverse and representative of America.
• Flexible acquisition will lead to the development of strategies that strive for dynamic capabilities while balancing efficiency, maintainability, customization and standardization in defense platforms and support systems. Flexible acquisition strategies would result in reduced development times, reduced costs, and increased scalability.
• Economic deterrence will promote fair and effective market mechanisms that support a resilient defense industrial ecosystem among the U.S. and close international allies and partners and economic security and integrated deterrence. As a result of effective economic deterrence, fear of materially reduced access to U.S. markets, technologies, and innovations will sow doubt in the mind of potential aggressors.

Additional Resources:

• National Defense Industrial Strategy (full document)
• National Defense Industrial Strategy Fact Sheet
• Jan. 11 NDIS News Release
• About the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy (OASD(IBP))