Suppliers meet the needs of transforming customers. (Defence Industry Report).

In many ways, the United States defence industry is undergoing a transformation that mirrors the US Department of Defense's own reshuffling. Just as these are volatile times for many Department of Defense component programmes, manufacturers are grappling with the current climate of cancellations or alterations, accelerated timelines, the urgencies of the ongoing war on terrorism and so forth--all this against its own unique background of mergers, teaming agreements and generally unfavourable stock market conditions.

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