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DARPA creates program aimed at overcoming production problems.

After years of discussion and prodding from the private sector, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has created a new manufacturing program aimed at fostering a radical transformation of the industrial base. The "Disruptive Manufacturing Technologies" initiative being undertaken by DARPA is due partly to the slow response of the Defense Department and its industrial base to the demand for upgraded systems such as body armor for the troops in Iraq.

"The rate at which asymmetric threats evolve has increased the speed with which new systems and platforms must be produced and increased the need to distribute new technologies to a larger number of troops," ...

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