Accelerating Warfighting Capabilities: Putting the Industrial Base on a Wartime Footing

Panel conversation from Accelerating Warfighting Capabilities, the Naval Postgraduate School's 23rd Annual Acquisition Research Symposium & Innovation Summit on May 6-7, 2026, hosted by the Acquisition Research Program at Naval Postgraduate School. Chair: Dr. Jerry McGinn, Director, Center for the Industrial Base and Senior Fellow, Defense and Security, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Panelists: Honorable Michael Cadenazzi, Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy Mr. James Ruocco, Senior Executive Service, performing duties of Assistant Secretary of War for Acquisition VADM Dion English, Director of Logistics at the Joint Staff Accelerating Foreign Military Sales– Mr. Michael Miller, Director, Defense Security Cooperation Agency To learn more about the symposium or ARP, or to read the full research papers, visit www.researchsymposium.com and www.acquisitionresearch.net. Subscribe to our weekly Need to Know newsletter here: https://nps.edu/web/acqnresearch/news... Music by Bensound License code: 0B7YGTOGXJ0JFVMC Artist: : Benjamin Tissot