The Defense Innovation Board is calling on the Pentagon to create a new undersecretariat to better coordinate international industrial cooperation between the US military and its allies.
In a report released Wednesday, the board says the Department of Defense "does not have a central standing mechanism for outreach with allies, partners, and international organizations, resulting in a state of considerable duplication, fragmentation, and lack of coordination across workstreams," the Hill reports.
"No one knows how it works," board member Charles Phillips tells Defense One.
"It's too fragmented and there's a lot of different certifications and requirements."
The report says the Pentagon's international defense industrial cooperation office is "often relegated in the face of competing priorities."
For example, the US military's top priority is the production of F-35 fighter jets, while countries such as Norway, the UK, Ukraine, and Ukraine are trying to work with the US on other projects, the Washington Post reports.
"We talked to a lot of different organizations to get a sense of how it's working today," Phillips says.
"Other countries [like] Norway, the US, Ukraine, even our allies, and some startups trying to work with the DOD from outside of the US and want to find out how to
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