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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Readying NATO’s Defense Industrial Base for Its 100th Anniversary

An audio version of “Readying NATO’s Defense Industrial Base for Its 100th Anniversary,” a new commentary by CSIS’s Audrey Aldisert and Cynthia Cook. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

Podcast Episode by Audrey Aldisert and Cynthia R. Cook — July 10, 2024

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Readying NATO’s Defense Industrial Base for Its 100th Anniversary

In the future, NATO’s success will hinge on its ability to unify and modernize its defense industrial base, ensuring that allies can swiftly codevelop, coproduce, and maintain the interoperable systems needed to meet emerging threats.

Commentary by Audrey Aldisert and Cynthia R. Cook — July 8, 2024

Expanding the Tool Kit to Counter China's Economic Coercion

The United States can combat China’s coercive behaviors by employing a new approach to economic statecraft and competition. This strategy involves sanctioning goods where the United States and its allies have market dominance and where China cannot substitute its imports.

Report 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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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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Pathways to Implementing Comprehensive and Collaborative JADC2

This CSIS brief identifies and examines strategic level challenges in pursuing enhanced command and control infrastructure and makes recommendations to help the U.S. military as it operates as a joint force and deploys with allies and partners.

Report by Cynthia R. Cook, Rose Butchart, Gregory Sanders, and Alexander Holderness — September 27, 2022

Leveraging Networks in Future Operations: DISA's Changing Role in Battle Networks

As the Department of Defense adapts to the challenges of a changing world, it has important choices to make about the future mission and organization of the Defense Information Systems Agency, the organization created in the Cold War to unify its top-level communications.

Report by Gregory Sanders and Rhys McCormick — January 31, 2022

The Army's Next-Generation Combat Vehicle

Please join CSIS's Defense Industrial Initiatives Group for an interview with Major General Richard Coffman, Director of the Army Futures Command's Next-Generation Combat Vehicle Cross-Functional Team.

Event — March 10, 2021