18th Annual Obsolescence and Life-Cycle Management Services Directory

Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) is a problem that the defense industry will likely never escape. That’s because the long development cycles in the defense world are way out of synch with the consumer semiconductor market. And with the volumes so much less in the military, the semiconductor vendors naturally orient everything they do toward big markets like smart phones, computers and a myriad other consumer electronic products.