Focus on Strong Industrial Base Defines Past and Future of NDIA

Skibbie, Larry, National Defense

This month marks our fourth anniversary as the National Defense Industrial Association. As the saying goes, "time flies when you are having fun." We surely have come a long way during the past four years. We integrated two organizations that, while similar in purpose, had significantly different modes of operation--and we've taken the best attributes of ADPA and NSIA and blended them into NDIA.

I hope you agree that the merger was the right thing to do for both our members and for our mission of supporting the defense industrial base. We are a much stronger and more prominent association as a result.

By the way, there is a clarification about our name that needs to …

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Publication information: Article title: Focus on Strong Industrial Base Defines Past and Future of NDIA. Contributors: Skibbie, Larry - Author. Magazine title: National Defense. Volume: 85. Issue: 568 Publication date: March 2001. Page number: 4. © 2009 National Defense Industrial Association. COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group.

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