Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Secretary Pete Hegseth set a goal of putting the United States on a wartime footing last November. Jerry McGinn, Director of the Center for the Industrial Base and Senior Fellow with the Defense and Security Department at CSIS, breaks down the data on how the U.S. industrial base is progressing toward this goal. For more information, read the full report here: csis.org/analysis/industrial-base-wartime-footing-progress-report

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