Human Capital: Protecting Critical Manufacturing and the Defense Industrial Base with Srp--Secured, Resilient Prepared (PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT‪)‬

The nation has met the harsh challenges of protecting our national security, weakened by the tragedies of terrorism, natural disasters, and low priorities of infrastructure protection by an immense response at all levels of Government and the commercial sector. This response called on its citizens, whether they are the President of the United States, a night watchman at a semi-conductor factory, or a university professor of supply chain management to not only exert maximum effort to protect each other but also recognize the value of human capital to detect, plan for, mitigate, respond, and recover from disasters. Such action can make the difference in protecting our Defense Industrial Base, the loss of which, or severe weakening, would compound our weakness in maintaining national security. Educating and training Human Capital will be the responsibility of the enterprises who employ us; of the universities who teach us rational reasoning and acquisition of knowledge; of professional associations such as the National Defense Transportation Association through their educational activities; and most importantly each of us to learn and continuously improve our knowledge in a rapidly changing world.