2. Mission -- Improve Weapon Technology -- Improve Defense Management
-- Maintain a Strong Industry
Defense Team
-- Provide a Forum for Exchange of
Ideas and Information between NDIA
Members and Government Agencies

3. Defense Industrial Base.
NDIA Vision
To be the Leading Defense Association Promoting Sound National Security while Advancing the Best Interests of the
Defense Industrial Base.

4. NDIA Profile -- Non-profit, Educational Tax Exempt (Federal)
-- 1,100 Corporate Members
-- 27,000 Individual Members
-- 2,500 Government Members
Chapters Nationwide
Divisions/5 Industrial Committees
National Meetings
-- Leader of Defense Association Executives Group

5. NDIA Divisions Warfighting (7) Industrial (5) Technology (15)
Expeditionary
Undersea
Strike, Land, Attack
& Air Defense
Air Targets, UAVs
& Ranges
Combat Survivability
SO/LIC
Night Operations
Technology (15)
Space
Missile Defense
Science & Eng.
Munitions
Chem-Bio Defense
C4ISR
Ballistics
Small Business
Armaments
Tank & Automotive
Bomb & Warhead
Systems Eng.
Test & Evaluation
Tech. Information
Homeland Security
Industrial (5)
Chem-Bio Defense
Acquisition
Small Arms
Ammunition Producers
Tank & Automotive
Producers
Operational T&E
Public Policy (7)
Environmental
International
Health Affairs
Logistics
Legislative Info.
Procurement
Gov. Policy

6. Affiliates National Training Systems Association
Women In Defense: A National Security Organization
Association for Enterprise Integration
Precision Strike Association
National Coordination Working Group

7. Top Issues for 2003
Funding America’s Defense for Wartime and Transformation
Sustaining the Defense Industrial Base
Protecting the Defense Industrial Base
Improving the International Competitiveness of the U.S. Defense Industry
Transforming Training and Logistics
Implementing a Reasoned Strategy for Network Centric Operations
Utilizing Small Businesses