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 Seth G. Jones, Park In-kook, Cynthia R. Cook, John J. Lee, and Gregory Sanders — May 31, 2024
Event — December 14, 2021
Brief by Rose Butchart, Sevan Araz , and Jill N. Cheney — December 14, 2021
Brief by Gregory Sanders, Andrew Philip Hunter, and Sevan Araz — July 19, 2021
