WashingtonExec senior writer Amanda Ziadeh sits down with Jerry McGinn, executive director for the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business, to discuss some of the challenges the industrial base is facing during the pandemic. McGinn, a former senior career official in the Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy in the Defense Department, sheds light on the trends he’s seeing in federal response to those challenges, and how government and industry partners can build resilience in the industrial base during a COVID-19 world.