Trump Executive Order..DOD...Buy Americanhttps://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/07/24/trump_directs_major_study_of_us_defense_industrial_base_111874.html
Of particular note:
1: The Pentagon has in the past conduced its own studies of the defense industrial base — an annual report of industrial capabilities is mandated by Congress — but this will be the first time it will have to work with other agencies and look at the nation’s manufacturing and supply sources far more comprehensively.
2: Navarro described the review as “one of the most significant presidential actions on the state of America’s industrial base since Eisenhower” and the “first ever whole-of-government assessment into the health of the defense industrial base.”
3: “The ability to manufacture, the ability to obtain essential components and raw materials is absolutely critical,” Gray told reporters.
4: If the Trump administration decided that a specific industry needed to be nurtured domestically, it would have to subsidize it like a public utility.