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Industrial Policy News

April 18, 2019

The Nunn-Perry Award: Recognizing Small Business Excellence

The Department of Defense announced the winners of the 2018 Nunn-Perry Awards. Ten companies were recognized for being the best in the Mentor Protégé Program.

An MH-60 Seahawk helicopter assigned to the Grandmasters of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46 deploys a sonobuoy, a tactical sonar system used for tracking submarine activity.

March 12, 2019

Defense Production Act Title III Presidential Determination for Sonobuoys

On March 12, 2019, President Trump signed a Presidential Determination to sustain and expand the domestic production of AN/SSQ series sonobuoys.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Ryan Pritt, 31st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron weapons load crew chief, oversees the lifting of a training GBU-10 J/B bomb at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Feb. 19, 2019. The weapons load crew members load a computer control group onto the armament after attaching it to a F-16 Fighting Falcon.

March 11, 2019

Defense Production Act Title III Presidential Determinations

On January 16, 2019, President Trump signed four Presidential Determinations pertaining to the production of critical chemicals used to manufacture DoD missiles and munitions —a sector deemed essential for national defense and highlighted in the Executive Order 13806 report.

Watervliet Arsenal third-year apprentice Jeffrey Empie, left, coaches second-year apprentice Richard Bennett on how and why each cannon tube is pressed up to 900 tons of pressure.

Oct. 31, 2018

Executive Order 13806 Report Released

The report in response to Executive Order 13806, released on October 5, 2018 at the White House, offers a rigorous assessment of the U.S. defense industrial base. The report recommends comprehensive solutions to ensure continued readiness for our Warfighters in an era of increased strategic competition.

Logos for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Office of Industrial Policy.

Sept. 27, 2018

DPA Title III and SBIR Promote Innovation

DPA Title III works with the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to take projects with proven capability and help move them to commercial production. Currently, the DPA Title III program is working with SBIR on two projects—the Electron Beam Direct Write Lithography Tool and the Modernized Production Adenovirus Vaccine.

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