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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Executive Summary: "Expanding the Tool Kit to Counter China's Economic Coercion"

An audio executive summary of CSIS’s Cynthia Cook, Gregory Sanders, Alexander Holderness, John Schaus, Nicholas Velazquez, Audrey Aldisert, Henry Carroll, and Emily Hardesty’s new report, “Expanding the Tool Kit to Counter China's Economic Coercion.” This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

Podcast Episode by Cynthia R. Cook, Gregory Sanders, Alexander Holderness, John Schaus, Nicholas Velazquez, Audrey Aldisert, Henry H. Carroll, and Emily Hardesty — May 6, 2024

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How Supporting Ukraine Is Revitalizing the U.S. Defense Industrial Base

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Congress has approved $113 billion to aid the response. U.S. security assistance to support Ukraine is reinvigorating the U.S. defense industrial base and creating American jobs.

Commentary by Elizabeth Hoffman, Audrey Aldisert, Cynthia R. Cook, Gregory Sanders, and Shivani Vakharia — April 18, 2024

Munitions Production Roundtable Featuring ASA(ALT) The Honorable Douglas R. Bush

The Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) will host Hon. Douglas R. Bush, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, for a roundtable discussion on munitions production with DIIG Director Dr. Cynthia R. Cook and DIIG Senior Associate (Non-Resident) Dr. Alexis Lasselle Ross.

Event — February 5, 2024

Understanding the Contributions of the New National Defense Industrial Strategy

The National Defense Industrial Strategy is the first document of its kind—a strategy specifically for the U.S. defense industrial base. But what does that entail? This CQ provides an overview of the strategy, highlighting both its innovations and its challenges.

Critical Questions by Cynthia R. Cook — January 17, 2024