Center for the Industrial Base

Reimagining government-industry collaboration to foster innovation, build capacity, and achieve victory.

CSIS’s Center for the Industrial Base (CIB), formerly the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG), provides impactful research on the ways in which the United States and its allies can collaborate more effectively with industry of all types and build their respective industrial bases. The center primarily focuses on 1) DOD and federal industrial base challenges, 2) government contracting trends in defense, civilian agencies, and international markets, 3) industry-government collaboration, and 4) international industrial cooperation. CIB monitors important developments in the global defense industry and produces major research projects and long-form reports; commentaries and articles in popular media; and annual conferences and livestream roundtables.

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Outlining the Challenges to U.S. Naval Shipbuilding

The U.S. naval shipbuilding enterprise struggles to produce ships at the scale and speed demanded despite being a bipartisan priority for successive administrations and Congress. The White House must tackle complex, longstanding challenges to improve shipbuilding capacity.

Report by Seamus P. Daniels, Henry H. Carroll, Cynthia R. Cook, Oliver Buntin, and Sarah O’Rourke — December 16, 2025

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The National Defense Industrial Strategy: The Way Ahead

DIIG Director Dr. Cynthia R. Cook will speak with the Honorable Dr. Laura D. Taylor-Kale, the first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy (ASD(IBP)), on the DoD's new National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS).

Event — January 11, 2024

The National Defense Industrial Strategy: The Way Ahead

DIIG Director Dr. Cynthia R. Cook will spoke with the Honorable Dr. Laura D. Taylor-Kale, the first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy (ASD(IBP)), on the DoD's new National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS).

Transcript — January 11, 2024

2023 DAPA-CSIS Executive Summary

The United States and the Republic of Korea are ready for the next step in their defense cooperation—industrial integration.

Report by Gregory Sanders and Nicholas Velazquez — December 19, 2023

Defense Acquisition Trends 2023: A Preliminary Look

This CSIS brief summarizes the Department of Defense’s latest acquisition trends. In fiscal year 2022, defense contracts to industry kept pace with inflation, but shifts in response to the war in Ukraine do not begin until 2023.

Brief by Gregory Sanders, Nicholas Velazquez, Emily Hardesty, and Audrey Aldisert — December 7, 2023

Transatlantic Defense during Wartime

Transatlantic defense is at a key juncture as Russia's war in Ukraine has brought greater unity but also thrown into relief the challenges of producing military capability. The European Union and NATO have an opportunity to build on their strengths to address this crisis.

Report by Cynthia R. Cook, Max Bergmann, Mark F. Cancian, Gregory Sanders, Sissy Martinez, Otto Svendsen, Nicholas Velazquez, and Henry H. Carroll — September 5, 2023