Our enemies have turned this to their advantage, and performed organizational and logistical tasks necessary to quickly mobilize production in case of conflict.
Unlike China, where the CCP and PLA keep a detailed database of industrial capacity, to include the specific tools and processes involved, the US NAICS (list of industrial codes) is pretty generic, and provides almost no information or guidance for mobilization.
They know whether a particular factory can make antibiotics even if they are making food dyes today.
They know which fabric mills can switch to weaving Kevlar or carbon fiber, and which can make stranded wire.
They know which companies have welding equipment suitable for nuclear components, shipbuilding, or vehicle building, even if they are being used to make bicycles and desks.
Funny thing is, our military sends senior officers to the Eisenhower School, formerly called the Army Industrial College, then Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and now called the School of National Security and Resource Strategy, and has done so since 1924.
They have 330 students a year. Around 200 are active duty, another 100 DoD/Agency, and a handful of civilians from industry.
At any time, we should have around 15,000 living graduates, and probably 2500-3000 on active duty or callable reserves.
The course is a year to year-and-a-half long, which means a 2 year assignment to Ft. McNair in DC.
Full pay. No military duties. No uniforms except at formal events. School hours schedule.
No excuses for the decay in our industrial base with this cadre of trained “experts” at our disposal.
Time to deploy these guys to the field.
Not in corporate boardrooms and executive suites…on the factory floors, in shipyards, steel mills, refineries, mines, chemical and pharmaceutical plants.
They should be visiting every vendor in the supply chain for their assigned company.
For instance, parts for the F-35 aircraft are produced in around 400 of 535 congressional districts (what a surprise).
They should be traveling as much as major league baseball players, identifying equipment, production, funding, manpower and regulatory issues.
Given that readiness rates are bad, mostly due to spare parts availability, they should be visiting and surveying every vendor, evaluating bottlenecks, and using (and updating) that handy NAICS database to identify and contact potential alternate vendors.
They should have necessary authority to issue preliminary contracts where a second source is warranted.
Consider it a DOGE for industry.
As a final note, I have never identified a single individual who has attended this school despite asking tons of people.
I’m not sure graduates ever serve in a capacity where the condition of the National Industrial Base is a topic.
I suspect this school exists as more of a military-procurement-to-cushy-defense-contractor-job pipeline than any real industrial readiness function.
It’s a perfect time to reap some national benefit from the two-year vacation these senior O-5 and O-6s were blessed with.
Logistics starts well before flying or driving stuff to the battle zone.
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