The Pentagon’s New Manufacturing Strategy Puts the Factory Floor Ahead of the Lab

The Pentagon is shifting its manufacturing focus from laboratory innovation to scaling production, addressing the 'valley of death' where military technologies fail to transition from prototypes to commercial manufacturing. This strategy prioritizes factory floor capabilities and production readiness over early-stage research development.

Join manufacturing technology experts at AMA: Software 2026 this week. Registration is free. The US military has acquired a piece of jargon for an old problem. The “valley of death”, where promising technologies expire between laboratory demonstration and commercial production, is now the…

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