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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Report by Seamus P. Daniels, Henry H. Carroll, Cynthia R. Cook, Oliver Buntin, and Sarah O’Rourke — December 16, 2025
Commentary by Jerry McGinn and Cynthia R. Cook — December 5, 2025
Critical Questions by Jerry McGinn, Audrey Aldisert, and Kurt MacAloney — November 6, 2025
Commentary by Jerry McGinn — November 5, 2025
Critical Questions by Jerry McGinn, Katy Buda, and Audrey Aldisert — October 6, 2025
Report by Gregory Sanders and Nicholas Velazquez — December 19, 2023
Brief by Lindsey R. Sheppard, Morgan Dwyer, Melissa Dalton, and Angelina Hidalgo — November 23, 2020
Commentary by Morgan Dwyer — May 13, 2020
Commentary by Morgan Dwyer — December 18, 2019
Report by James Andrew Lewis, John J. Hamre, Matthew P. Goodman, Scott Kennedy, Scott Miller, John Schaus, Stephanie Segal, Andrew Philip Hunter, and Samm Sacks — January 29, 2018
Event — April 30, 2015
Event — March 10, 2014
Commentary by Gregory Sanders, David J. Berteau, Ryan Crotty, Samuel J. Brannen, and Maren Leed — March 10, 2014
