{"id":7553,"date":"2023-12-06T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2023-12-06T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:59:53","slug":"wisconsin-defense-industry-forms-advocacy-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7553","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Defense Industry Forms Advocacy Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wisconsin-defense-industry-forms-advocacy-group\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wisconsin-defense-industry-forms-advocacy-group\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MADISON<\/strong> \u2013 A new statewide advocacy group will focus on the unique needs of Wisconsin\u2019s defense industry and its supply chain. The Wisconsin Defense Industry Council (WDIC) was formed in conjunction with Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce (WMC) and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) to strengthen and support Wisconsin\u2019s defense industry through collaborative advocacy, information sharing and networking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWisconsin is a major manufacturing state and thus critical to America\u2019s national defense infrastructure,\u201d explained George Whittier, CEO of Beloit-based Fairbanks Morse Defense. \u201cCreating a group like WDIC is long overdue in order to give defense contractors and suppliers a unified voice on issues that impact national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an urgent need for stronger advocacy, cooperation and networking among Wisconsin\u2019s defense industry,\u201d said Bill Berrien, CEO of Pindel Global Precision in New Berlin. \u201cThere are critical issues hampering defense contractors that must be addressed, including an acute workforce shortage and lingering supply chain backlogs. WDIC will work with partners like WMC and MMAC to address those issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whittier will chair WDIC, while Berrien, a former Navy SEAL, will serve as vice chair.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2022 Department of Defense report, Wisconsin ranks 30th in total U.S. defense contract spending accounting for just 0.6 percent of total defense spending, or about $5B of the more than $800B defense budget. That number likely doesn\u2019t include small- and medium-sized manufacturers within the defense industry supply chain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wisconsin-defense-industry-forms-advocacy-group\/\">Wisconsin Defense Industry Forms Advocacy Group<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wisconsin-defense-industry-forms-advocacy-group\/ MADISON \u2013 A new statewide advocacy group will focus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7554,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/7554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}