Its not quite as easy as just preserving the tooling and the data - building armored vehicles is a lot different than building cars, especially when you consider how few really new vehicles are being built. The new versions of Bradleys, M88's and M109's are basically recycled older vehicles with changes made to old hulls.
To deal with them you need the knowledge of the people who have built them over the years, especially as many of those vehicles have been modified extensively or repaired and dont match the drawings anymore.
Plus skills like welding armor need to be preserved or they are lost.
Thats why the USN has kept its sub production going as they have - to preseve the people skills for as long as possible knowing that when they are gone it will be very hard if not impossible to get them back again.
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