Rapid Fire 2012-01-09 | Budget Cuts: Not Just How Much, But How
- The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and Professional Services Council (PSC), teamed up as the “Defense Industrial Base Task Force”, sent a joint letter [PDF] to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to outline what they think the impact of budget cuts might be. More subtle than past communications that threatened with the loss of 1 million jobs, the document states that subcontractors may choose to leave the defense market, forcing primes to in-source functions that they currently subcontract. This shows how the discussion has shifted from “should there be any cuts at all” to “how to execute cuts in a responsible way.” Where, and when, matter as much as how much.