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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Report Launch: Is NATO Ready for War?

Join the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia program and the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group for the report launch of “Is NATO Ready for War? An Assessment of NATO Allies’ Efforts to Strengthen Defense and Deterrence since the Madrid Summit.”  

Event — June 11, 2024

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

Global Security Forum 2023: Transatlantic Defense

The 2023 Global Security Forum, the CSIS International Security Program’s flagship annual conference, took place on April 5, 2023. This year’s conference theme was transatlantic defense and featured a keynote address by Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Christopher W. Grady.

Event — April 5, 2023

Bolstering Collective Resilience in Europe

Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine puts the necessity for European resilience into sharper focus. This brief argues for a new framing of NATO’s approach to resilience to amplify allies’ combined capacity to tackle shared challenges and threats.

Brief by Anna Dowd and Cynthia R. Cook — December 9, 2022

The Russia Challenge in Europe

Please join the CSIS Missile Defense Project and the CSIS Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) for The Russia Challenge in Europe: The INF Treaty and Implications for Army Modernization, featuring a keynote address by Senator Tom Cotton. The event will also roll out DIIG's new report, The Army Modernization Imperative: A New Big Five for the Twenty First Century. Additional speakers to be announced.

Event — July 17, 2017

FYSA: For Your Situational Awareness l Issue 11

You can also find links to select upcoming and recent events, publications, media quotes, congressional testimony, and multimedia produced by our scholars and staff.

Newsletter by Brian Lessenberry, Stephanie Sanok Kostro and Rhys McCormick — September 17, 2014

FYSA: For Your Situational Awareness l Issue 5

You can also find links to select upcoming and recent events, publications, media quotes, congressional testimony, and multimedia produced by our scholars and staff.

Newsletter by Stephanie Sanok Kostro, Kathryn Mixon and David J. Berteau and Kathleen H. Hicks — March 21, 2014