State of Competition within the Defense Industrial Base (Feb 2022)
State of Competition within the Defense Industrial Base (Feb 2022)
Summary
A DoD report, 'State of Competition within the Defense Industrial Base' (Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, February 2022), submitted in response to Executive Order 14036 on promoting competition. It reviews the state of DIB competition and cross-cutting challenges (industry consolidation from 51 to 5 aerospace/defense primes, data rights and intellectual property, the push toward commercial items), strategies to grow the small-business vendor base, and sectors of concern, and offers five broad recommendations including strengthening merger oversight and addressing IP limitations. It concerns competition and industrial-base policy rather than OT/CSO/prize authority specifically.