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5 CONCLUSION
The problems of the U.S. defense industrial base are
reflected in long lead times to procure weapon systems,
high costs, uncertain quality, ant more frequent procure-
ment of components from other countries. These problems
happened in part because manufacturing process development
has been allowed to lag product development for weapon
systems.
The ManTech program has had some success in promoting
the development of manufacturing technology to produce
weapon systems. If DOD had given investment in innovative
manufacturing technology high priority and more strategic
direction, the program could have accomplished more.
We recommend a new ManTech program that directly funds
investment in a few innovative manufacturing technologies
needed for the next generation of weapon systems. The
Secretaries of the Army, Nary, Air Force, and Defense
need to establish priorities for future weapon systems.
ManTech program managers in the services can then trans-
late those priorities into specific groups of projects.
We believe they have proven their ability to do so.
ManTech projects should be selected to be innovative,
generic, not adequately funded by the private sector, and
critical to the capabilities of the defense industrial
base. Evaluation of the ManTech program should reflect
the limits in measurement abilities and in the standard
accounting system. The program should be judged success-
ful if it has (1) funded a critical mass of projects to
develop the technologies needed for future weapon systems
and (2) achieved sufficient technical success to advance
the state of the art.
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