Munitions Board / Joint Munitions Board (1947 → DLA)
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In 1947 the US wrote industry directly into its war planning — and that link never went away.
Who they are
The Munitions Board, created by the National Security Act of 1947 and later becoming the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).
What they do
The engine treats it as the built-in mechanism tying civilian factories to military strategy from the very founding of the modern defense system.
How it works
Set up under Section 213 of the 1947 Act as the successor to the WWII Joint Army-Navy Munitions Board, its explicit job was to coordinate civilian industrial capacity with military strategic planning.
Why it matters
It shows that from day one the modern national-security structure was designed to fuse industry and the military — a permanent link the engine sees as the load-bearing purpose of the new department.
The engine's record — word for word
Report #87. Established by Section 213 of the National Security Act of 1947 to coordinate civilian industrial capacity with military strategic planning. Successor to the WWII-era Joint Army-Navy Munitions Board. Predecessor of the modern Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Function: explicit statutory link between military requirements and industrial production. The Munitions Board was the institutional mechanism by which civilian industry was integrated into strategic defense planning at the founding of the architecture — operationalizing the Eberstadt Plan's central principle that industrial-capital coordination was the load-bearing function of the new department. [Report #176] The civilian-industry-to-military integration mechanism of the 1947 founding, operationalizing the Eberstadt capital-coordination principle.
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