US Navy establishes Office of the Defense Industrial Base under new deputy assistant secretary
US Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro has established an Office of the Defense Industrial Base and appointed Andrew Magliochetti as deputy assistant secretary. The new office is tasked with coordinating Navy industrial-base policy, including procurement bottlenecks, supply-chain resilience, and critical-minerals sourcing. The move follows sustained production delays in missile and ship programmes.
Why it matters: The US Navy now has a dedicated industrial-base bureaucrat – a tacit admission that the service can no longer assume contractors will deliver on time or at scale.