Isn't this basically what the defence production act was made for? Unfortunately, it would take a president that doesn't care about their opponents getting a hu

Isn't this basically what the defence production act was made for? Unfortunately, it would take a president that doesn't care about their opponents getting a huge campaign finance windfall to use that capability to restore competitive bidding. And with the current Supreme Court, I expect that opening the designs for competitive bidding would be considered a "taking", so it would be a matter of time before the changes get reversed or weakened.