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The Invisible Base How Operation Epic Fury Reveals the U.S. Defense Industrial Base’s True Fragility Policy Brief • March 10, 2026By: Michael Morford What Secretary Hegseth Got Right—and Missed—in His Call for Acquisition Reform The United States cannot rapidly surge weapons production without visibility into the lower tiers of its defense supply chain. While policymakers […]

Creation of the ASPI USA Oklahoma Chair for Strategic Policy and International Engagement Building on a series of strategic partnerships across Oklahoma, the Knudsen Institute and ASPI USA have formally launched the ASPI USA Oklahoma Chair for Strategic Policy and International Engagement. This announcement was made public during DIBCON25 and reflects a growing ecosystem of

Congratulations to Binoy Debnath, Zahra Pourfarash and of course Knudsen’s own Bhairavsingh Ghorpade for your paper titled “Integrating Reverse Engineering and Life Expectancy Analysis in the Lifecycle Management of a Mechanical Component” being selected as the Best Track Paper Runner-Up in the Modeling & Simulation Division at IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2025.  We are

Dr. Gregory Harris, Dr. Frank Pfefferkorn, & Dr. Steven Schmid Round Out Our Exemplary Group of Scholars The Knudsen Institute for Applied Research on Surge Theory, a non-profit applied research organization dedicated to growing the U.S. defense industrial base (DIB), proudly announces the addition of three esteemed academic leaders to its National Advisory Board. This