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Industry Leaders Must Address Resilience, Backlog, AI, and Workforce Challenges
The aerospace and defense industry is facing unprecedented demand, but its supply chains are struggling to keep pace. According to an article by advancedmanufacturing.org, the industry’s reliance on outdated assumptions about resilience, backlog, technology, and talent is causing delays and constraining throughput. The article highlights four uncomfortable truths that industry leaders must address to remain competitive, including the need to engineer resilience into the system, convert backlog into delivered capability, and prioritize workforce development. The industry’s next decade will be won by organizations that can engineer resilience, convert promises into throughput, and scale human judgment, as reported by advancedmanufacturing.org.