"We talked about the broken defense industrial base, the D.I.B. and ways to regenerate... we are expending all of this knowing the defense industrial base is only capable of producing so much so quickly in order to restock." The US is actively engaged in a military conflict, rapidly depleting its current stockpile of munitions and missiles. To replenish these stockpiles and regenerate the defense industrial base, the government will be forced to award massive, long-term contracts to prime defense manufacturers. LONG. The geopolitical escalation and direct US military involvement guarantee a sustained pipeline of government defense spending to restock depleted arsenals. Political gridlock in Congress could delay the supplemental funding bills required to pay for the restocking of munitions.