Sikorsky chief: Pentagon policies hurt defense industry.

• Author: Book, Elizabeth G.
• Position: Washington Pulse

At a recent conference of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), Dean Borgman, president of Sikorsky Aircraft, charged that the U.S. defense industry is being undermined by the Defense Department's support of free trade in markers that have previously been exclusively American.

DSCA, a Pentagon-funded agency, is set to "become a sales channel to European technologies, to third party countries. Especially countries that otherwise would never purchase a European product," Borgman said.

Borgman said that the U.S. military services will have to decide "if the benefits of free trade and investment outweigh the benefits of a strong and viral defense business."

"It's not a stretch to call our country's aerospace and defense industries a national treasure. It's produced a true arsenal...