Defense Industry Revolution
Improvised weapons aren’t just for terrorists anymore!

Talent drives innovation. In return for profit, corporate bureaucracies should
supply talented people with the means to provide life saving military solutions.
The corporate large American companies, which exist on taxpayer dollars,
have used that money to monopolize and corral a lot of talent. If an idea
doesn't easily show up on the bottom line, it may as well not even exist. People
who think up new military technologies do not  have any financial or patent
rights to it under current unconstitutional and serfdom based employment
contracts.

But this is a problem for all of America. A lot of talent monopolized by the big
companies could rapidly produce new or modified weapons as the need arises
on the battlefield. There are no time-outs in war so the lumbering bureaucracy
can get bids and write contracts. War cannot be fought at the convenience
of the business worlds bottom line. Small and rapidly changing production
runs are very difficult for a manufacturer to justify to it's share holders and
would make most  bureaucracies freeze up.

To address this, I would recommend the formation of an Industrial Cadre,
similar to the National Guard where skilled personnel would be assembled
at a government manufacturing and design facility to rapidly analyze, design,
and build the weapons the soldiers in the field need. In addition, like the
National Guard, the people in the National Industrial Cadre would have
retention rights with their normal civilian employers.

Since the people in this Industrial Cadre would not be combat soldiers, many
skilled people can be recruited for the National Industrial Cadre that normally
would not be acceptable to the National Guard. There are vast numbers of
out-of-shape war gamers with high levels of tactical computer skills, grumpy
old machinists, and bitter downsized high tech personnel who would jump at
the chance at having their skills appreciated. I am not just talking about pay,
but respect and the ability to see the results of their work. The job market
only recognizes a narrow range of skills and talents, then throws the rest away.

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