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Depot Maintenance
The Department of Defense spends as much on materiel maintenance as the whole world spent last year on smart phones. Over a third of that is depot-level maintenance, the most challenging repairs and overhauls of military systems. As the phrase implies, depot-level maintenance is performed in specialized
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Date:
4/10/2012
Most Americans are unaware that the United States has two defense industrial bases. The one they hear about most, partly because it advertises its wares, is the private defense industrial base. This consists not only of large defense contractors, the so-called primes such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin,
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Date:
12/2/2011


