DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 15 -- North Carolina State University issued the following press release:
Last week, Rep. Mike Rogers, chair of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, visited NC State's Centennial Campus to explore innovative research and technology that could help address challenges facing the nation's defense industrial base.
"I travel around a lot to major research institutions to see what they are doing," Rogers said. "I'm always fascinated to find out about what different people and different institutions are doing."
The defense industrial manufacturing base has shrunk by about 90% over the last 30 years through consolidation of prime defense contractors, and by more than 40% in the last 10 years through supply chain losses, ac...