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 Business of Software Innovation

The speakers will discuss business models through which the U.S. government and industry can work together in developing software for national security capabilities.

Event — January 29, 2019

Small Satellites, Big Missions

The Center for Strategic and International Studies will be hosting a two-session event to highlight and amplify awareness of the implications of emerging space technologies, particularly those provided by smaller space systems. These discussions will examine implications from the perspective of both changes in the way space missions are executed and in the way that transportation to space is provided.

Event — June 21, 2017

Implications of Ultra-Low-Cost Access to Space

Since the advent of the space age, a primary constraint on military, commercial, and civil space missions has been the cost of launch.

Report by Todd Harrison, Kaitlyn Johnson, Thomas G. Roberts, and Andrew Philip Hunter — March 21, 2017

Beyond the RD-180

This report explores how the United States came to depend on the Russian RD-180 rocket engine as part of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program, realistic options for the engine’s replacement in the coming decade, and potential space launch acquisition strategies for the future.

Report by Todd Harrison, Kaitlyn Johnson, Thomas G. Roberts, Andrew Philip Hunter, and Evan Linck — March 21, 2017

Discussion on the 2014 QDR and FY15 Defense Budget

Following the release of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review, CSIS will host Ms. Wormuth for a keynote speech to outline the Department of Defense's strategy and objectives in today's global security environment. 

Event — March 10, 2014