Defense Industrial Base

The term defense industrial base (or DIB), also known as the defense industrial and technological base, is used in political science to refer to a government's industrial assets that are of direct or indirect importance for the production of equipment for a country's armed forces. It is loosely associated with realism, which views the state as the preponderant guarantor of security, and frequently features as an element of grand strategy and defense policy, as well as diplomacy.

United States

A commonly cited example of a defense industrial base is that of the United States, where, given the onset of the Cold War accompanied by the outbreak of the Korean War, the maintenance "of a peacetime defense industry of significant proportions was an unprecedented event."

Researchers and public figures critical of close ties among legislators, militaries, and the defense industrial base due to a government's monopoly on demand for products of the latter employ the concept of the military–industrial complex to critique these connections. Early studies of interest group representation in the US referred to these ties as exemplary of the iron triangle phenomenon.

As of October 31, 2022, the corporate members of the Defense industrial base in the United States are:

# Abbvie, Inc.
# Accenture Federal Services LLC
# American Bureau of Shipping
# AECOM
# Aerojet Rocketdyne
# Aerospace Corporation, The
# Aerospace Industries Association
# Airbus Defense and Space
# Airbus Americas
# American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) International
# American Systems, Inc.
# Analog Devices, Inc
# Armstrong Teasdale
# Ashland LLC
# AutoDesk, Inc.
# BAE Systems, Inc.
# Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
# Bank of America
# Boeing Company, The
# Booz Allen Hamilton
# Box, Inc.
# CACI International, Inc
# Centurum, Inc
# Cisco Systems, Inc.
# Citigroup, Inc.
# Click Bond, Inc.
# Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions, Inc.
# Concurrent Technologies Corporation
# Corning Inc.
# Covestro LLC
# CPI International, Inc.
# Cubic Corporation
# Defense and Intelligence Council
# Dell (EMC Corporation)
# Deloitte Global
# Dow Chemical Company, The
# DRS Technologies, Inc.
# DynCorp International
# Eastern Research Group, Inc.
# Eastman Chemical Company
# Eaton Aerospace Ltd.
# Eccalon LLC
# Emerson Electric Co.
# Espy Corporation, The
# Exostar
# Fifth-Third Bank
# FlighSafety International
# Frontier Technology, Inc
# General Atomics
# General Dynamics
# General Electric - Aviation
# GE – Digital
# General Motors
# Honeywell
# Huntington Ingalls Industries
# iDirect Government
# InCadence Strategic Solutions
# Ingalls Shipbuilding
# Institute for Defense Analyses, Inc.
# Integrated Security Technologies
# IPG Photonics
# Integrity Solutions Consulting Group, LLC
# Intertek Laboratories, Inc
# IT Cadre
# Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)
# JRC Integrated Systems, Inc.
# Kratos Defense
# L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
# Leidos
# Leonardo DRS, Inc.
# LGS Innovations
# Lumen
# Lockheed Martin Corporation
# Lyondellbasell Industries, Inc.
# ManTech International
# Maxar Technologies, Inc.
# Mercury Systems, Inc.
# Michael Baker International LLC
# MIT Lincoln Laboratory
# MITRE Corporation
# MITRON
# Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.
# Motorola Solutions, Inc.
# M-Tron Industries, Inc
# MtronPTI
# National Classification Management Society (NCMS)
# National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
# National Defense ISAC
# NBC Universal Media
# Net Vision Consultants, Inc.
# Nextera Energy, Inc.
# North Atlantic Industries
# Northern Aviation Services, Inc.
# Northrop Grumman Corporation
# Ocean Riders
# Olin Corporation
# Oshkosh Defense LLC
# Palo Alto Networks
# Parsons Corporation, The
# Peerless Technologies
# Pennsylvania State University (PSU ARL)
# Peraton, Inc.
# Percipient.ai
# Pfizer
# PPG Aerospace
# PreCast Corporation
# Precision Castparts Corporation
# Proctor & Gamble
# RAND Corporation
# Raytheon Technologies
# Referentia Systems, Inc.
# Rocket Communications, Inc.
# Rockwell Collins Aerospace
# Rockwell Collins, Inc.
# Rolls-Royce
# S&P Global, Inc.
# Saab USA
# Salesforce
# SAP America, Inc.
# SAP NS2
# Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
# Securitas Critical Infrastructure Services, Inc. (SCIS)
# ServiceNow
# Sierra Nevada Corporation
# Slack Technology, Inc.
# Software Engineering Institute
# Space Dynamics Laboratory
# Space ISAC, The
# SRC, Inc.
# System Planning & Analysis, Inc. (SPA)
# Textron, Inc.
# Toyon Research Corporation
# Ultra Electronics - Defense
# Ultra Electronics - USSI
# United Launch Alliance LLC
# United Technologies
# University of Nebraska / DoD UARC
# US Bank
# Undersea Sensor Systems, Inc.
# Varen Technologies
# Verizon
# Win-Tech, Inc.
# X8 LLC

Works cited

* Austin, Mike
''Managing the US Defense Industrial Base: A Strategic Imperative''
''Parameters'', Summer 1994, pp. 27–37.
* Boezer, Gordon; Gutmaris, Ivans; Muckerman II, Joseph E.
''The Defense Technology and Industrial Base: Key Component of National Power''
''Parameters'', Summer 1997, pp. 26–51.
* Abbott, Gerald; Johnson, Stuart
''The Changing Defense Industrial Base''
''Strategic Forum'', No. 96, November 1996.
* Gentsch, Eric L.; Peterson, Donna J. S.
''A Method for Industrial Base Analysis: An Aerospace Case Study''
Bethesda, MD: Logistics Management Institute, 1993
* Markusen, Ann: ''The Rise of World Weapons'', ''Foreign Policy'', No. 114, Spring, 1999, pp. 40–51

References

External links

A description of the DIB
by the Dept of Homeland Security


from the Dept. of Commerce

Military–industrial complex

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