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Defense equipment, and targeted research and development expenses for the global market, the Pentagon, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III fall in the cost to maintain the defense industrial base is vital to the nation, said that last night.Deputy Defense William J. Lynn Third public, Royal Bank of Canada and the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, 11 refers to the hangar deck Aerospace Defense Conference in May 2011. DOD photo by Terry Mitchell
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develop plans to protect industry funding on the basis of a relatively new development in American history is determined, Lin said. "Before the Second World War, which is almost exclusively an array system in which the government relied on the design and build weapons and weapons systems," he said. "The system as a function of mass wars -. obtain the logical conclusion of our arsenal and then demobilized no standing army, said the nation does not have a standing military industrial base.
But Arsenal in the system risk was evident during the First World War, the Secretary said. "He produced a weapon and ammunition that we had the most in the event of war were not," he said. "We are very strong on British and French industries were supplied to our troops."and a stable partnership between the Army.
"This partnership gives us the technological advantage we enjoy in the fight," the secretary said, noting that the museum, where He is - the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid - is evidence of American industry.
Charged at the height of World War II, the Intrepid saw action in the Pacific, Lynn told the audience. During the Cold War was an anti-submarine vehicle, and the cockpit - already equipped with a steam catapult - Vietnam launched air raids over the air.
"Our defense industry as a strategic national asset has emerged in the last three generations - a property that is not a birthright and can not be taken for granted," Lin said. "Thousands of companies - some large and small -. equip our armed forces its suppliers to these companies and suppliers of suppliers, a series which, if broken, can have a huge impact on our military capabilities of the links.