新工具、长期合作伙伴关系以及额外资源，可能是增强国防工业基础的关键。
New tools, longstanding partnerships and additional resources could be the keys to bolster the defense industrial base.
战争部正通过与初创企业合作以及通过与成熟承包商签订长期协议来着眼长远，从而多元化其库存。
The War Department is diversifying its inventory by working with startups and playing the long game through extended agreements with established contractors.
负责采购与保障的战争部副部长迈克尔·达菲表示：“我认为这些是前所未有的协议。”
"I do think these are unprecedented deals," Undersecretary of War for Acquisitions and Sustainment Michael Duffey said.
“没有人能够提供像战斧巡航导弹和爱国者系统那样，为我们的作战提供同等质量和性能的产品。”战争部一直在宣布多年期武器生产合同。
"Nobody's been able to deliver the quality and the performance that Tomahawk and the Patriot provide for our war fight." The War Department has been announcing multi-year weapons production contracts.
一些协议的期限长达七年，包括与雷神公司签订的229亿美元战斧导弹合同，与诺斯罗普·格鲁曼公司和洛克希德·马丁公司签订的10亿美元“萨德”系统组件框架协议，以及与洛克希德·马丁公司签订的586.2亿美元爱国者导弹段增强合同。
Some agreements extend as long as seven years, including a $22.9 billion deal with Raytheon for Tomahawk missiles, a $1 billion framework with Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin for THAAD components and a $58.62 billion contract with Lockheed Martin for Patriot Missile Segment Enhancements.
随着军方接近重大战场突破，美国激光革命内幕：“就爱国者系统而言，其产量是去年生产量的三倍，”达菲说。“我们有许多新进入者，他们正在为行业带来全新的优秀技术。”战争部还在加大对新技术的投资。战争部创新单位与商业公司和初创企业合作，以采用新的武器和防御能力。近年来，其预算已飙升至近10亿美元。
INSIDE AMERICA'S LASER REVOLUTION AS THE MILITARY NEARS BIG BATTLEFIELD BREAKTHROUGH "In the case of Patriots, it was a three-times production increase over what we were producing this past year," Duffey said. "We have a lot of new entrants that are bringing new great technology into the industry." The War Department is also investing more in new technology. The Department of War Innovation Unit works with commercial companies and startups to adopt new weapons and defense capabilities. Its budget has skyrocketed to nearly $1 billion in recent years.
得克萨斯州共和党众议员迈克尔·麦考尔表示：“我认为初创企业将是未来的关键。主要承包商有其存在的意义。它们建造大型武器系统，建造航空母舰。但要让这艘大船驶向正确的方向，需要很长时间。”
"I think the startups are going to be kind of the future. The primes have their purpose. They build the big weapon systems. They build aircraft carriers. But it takes a long time to move that ship in the right direction," Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said.
“正如我们在乌克兰所看到的那样，初创企业具备这种创新能力，能够以更快的速度推进，采用更具创新性的技术，在流程中展现出更多的创造力，以及我们国防工业基础迫切需要的打破常规的思维。”火箭实验室（Rocket Lab）是一家近年来与战争部（War Department）合作日益密切的新兴公司。自2006年成立以来，该公司已获得超过20亿美元的政府合同。
"The startups, just like we saw in Ukraine, have this ability of innovation to move at a faster speed and a more innovative technology, more creativity in the process, out-of-the-box thinking that we desperately need for our defense industrial base." Rocket Lab is one newer company that has increasingly been working with the War Department. Since the company was founded in 2006, it has received more than $2 billion in government contract awards.
“我想说我们正在向产业链上游迈进，如今我们已跻身美国最卓越的导弹和导弹防御测试项目之列，”火箭实验室全球发射服务副总裁布莱恩·罗杰斯（Brian Rogers）表示。
"I would say we've moving up the food chain, and now we are amongst the preeminent missile and missile defense test programs in the United States," Vice President of Global Launch Services at Rocket Lab Brian Rogers said.
战争部官员制定重建弹药储备计划：“走在问题前面”。火箭实验室已与战争部创新部门合作测试其“急速”（Haste）运载火箭，该公司称这将有助于美国加速未来高超音速能力的建设。
WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL LAYS OUT PLAN TO REBUILD MUNITIONS STOCKPILE: 'AHEAD OF THIS PROBLEM' Rocket Lab has worked with the Department of War Innovation Unit to test its Haste Launch Vehicle, which the company says will help the U.S. accelerate future hypersonic capabilities.
“我们已经完成了多次发射，”罗杰斯说。“我们还有很多项目正在筹备中，涉及各种不同的技术应用。”国防技术公司Castelion表示，其优先事项之一是加快制造进度。
"We've already done a number of launches," Rogers said. "We got a lot more in the hopper, and it's all kinds of different technology applications." Defense technology company Castelion says one of its priorities is speeding up the manufacturing timeline.
“我们认为，如果你直接着手制造你想要构建的目标，将其投入内部制造，然后在过程中发现所有问题并加以纠正，速度会快得多，”Castelion联合创始人兼首席执行官布莱恩·哈吉斯（Bryon Hargis）表示。“我们创办公司的基础之一，实际上就是阿波罗时代行之有效的方法，当时我们国家在不到十年的时间里就登上了月球。许多那样的做法后来不再受青睐。我们正在回归那些行之有效的方法，并重新加以实施。”战争部正通过一项多年期协议投资于这一战略，最终将部署Castelion的“黑胡子”（Blackbeard）高超音速武器。
"We believe that it's much faster if you just go out and build the object you're trying to build into inner manufacturing, and then you find all of the problems in that process, and you correct them," Castelion Co-Founder and CEO Bryon Hargis said. "One of the things that we based the company on is really what worked in the Apollo era when we got to the moon as a country in under a decade. A lot of those practices have fallen out of favor. We're going back to what worked, and we're just implementing that again." The War Department is investing in that strategy with a multi-year agreement to eventually field Castelion’s Blackbeard Hypersonic Weapon.
“这只是一份关于未来协议的协议，”哈吉斯表示。“如果我们达成了自己设定的、并声称能够实现的绩效目标，该部门表示他们将进来采购大量弹药。”卡斯特利安公司在过去18个月内已获得了5亿美元的美国军事合同，并最近宣布了10亿美元的融资。
"It's just the agreement to have a future agreement," Hargis said. "If we meet those performance targets that we set out and said we could do, the department is saying they're gonna come in and buy a tremendous amount of munitions." Castelion has secured $500 million in U.S. military contracts over the past 18 months and recently announced $1 billion in funding.
“未来非常光明。在这个政府以及该部门为引入新进入者所采取的行动下，我们拥有巨大的机遇，”哈吉斯说。“我认为过去几十年一直缺失的关键在于，我们建造得不够多，测试得也不够多，而他们正在纠正这一点。这将推动该领域的巨大创新。”
"The future is very bright. We have a tremendous opportunity with this administration and what the department is doing to bring in new entrants," Hargis said. "The key thing that I think has been missing in the past decades is that we do not build enough, we do not go test enough, and they're correcting that. And that's going to lead to tremendous innovation in this space."