Bryan Clark, a senior fellow with Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a policy institute, told Defense Daily that the administration wants to increase the content of U.S. produced goods used by the defense industrial base and larger supply chain. There are concerns that many of the smaller suppliers, who are "always on the bubble," are so specialized around their defense products that they don't have commercial outlets to ease their way through periods of slow or non-existent defense orders.
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