Private military firms

Fourth, current DoD strategy captured an insufficient share of the vaccine industrial base because it lacked indemnification and longterm contracts. Weak economic incentives did not attract private pharmaceutical firms to develop military-use vaccines. 

The Ministero della Guerra central committee provided private firms with raw materials free of charge — a very delicate matter, involving the need for coordination with other Allied purchasing. So, for example, in July 1915 a permanent military mission was established in the United States with branches in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, as weU as in Washington, DC. In financial matters, the military mission was assisted by the Italian and American Treasuries. ... 

Besides the big army plant, Bologna hosted twenty-three private firms declared auxiliary for the production of military supplies, and another dozen that received contracts under wartime legislation. Some of these were already pivots of the local industrial system before the war, a role that many would afterwards retain or expand. 

The core of Italy s war effort was thus a system of coordination between public plants, private firms and the military, ensured by central and regional committees. These committees favoured intertwining military and private firms, which either already supplied the military, or which could be converted quickly to wartime production. In total, about 1500 firms or institutions (including several... 

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