National Security

Keeping the Defense Industrial Base Afloat During COVID-19

In this exploratory analysis of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data, RAND researchers summarize investments in Defense Industrial Base businesses that received assistance during the early months of the pandemic.

They found that the PPP offered financial assistance that reached many small businesses in the manufacturing industry, an important sector for national security supply chains whose production was especially hard hit by the COVID-19 crisis, and that most of the Defense Department contractors taking advantage of the PPP had fewer than 100 employees.
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