Rebooting the Defense Production Act : Hudson Institute , September , 2025
Rebooting the Defense Production Act : Hudson Institute , September , 2025
From the document: “This fall the United States Senate will consider reauthorization of the Defense Production Act (DPA).1 First passed during the Korean War so that the US military could replenish its forces quickly, the DPA has been used in hundreds of ways for various purposes—some directly defense-related, and some less so. As reauthorization of the act approaches, policymakers and other experts are debating its appropriate uses.
Over the years, the act has had mixed results in making strategic and sustained improvements to the US defense industrial base. While the DPA has filled gaps in specific emergencies, the range of emergencies has been quite broad—from fire hoses in California to COVID-related ventilators and vaccines, baby formula, and, most recently under the Biden administration, the manufacture of clean energy technologies such as solar panels”
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