Industry-Government Collaboration

Engaging in dialogue with government officials and industry partners as well as through focused research, CIB explores this critical partnership and its effect on important national security topics

Aimed at reinvigorating collaboration between government and industry, CIB has launched a series of reports, events, and research efforts. Ongoing shifts in the way government conducts business affect both agencies and companies that service them.

CIB’s work explores how incentive structures can be reshaped to attract greater private equity, venture capital, and traditional investment into national security sectors. It examines ways to leverage private investment to strengthen supply chains and accelerate technology transition, while also evaluating how mergers and acquisitions affect competition and innovation across the defense ecosystem.

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Alternative Funding Mechanisms in Review

DOD’s new Office of Strategic Capital will work to ensure that the future warfighter has the capabilities they need by attracting and scaling private capital to critical technologies for national security, with the advantages and risks of a portfolio investment approach.

Report by Erin L. Murphy, Cynthia R. Cook, Emily Harding, Gregory Sanders, Nicholas Velazquez, Julia Dickson, and Maeve Sockwell — November 21, 2024

Pausing Proliferation: Facing China's Military Engine Development

A panel discussion on Chinese military engine development between the Director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) at CSIS, Dr. Cynthia R. Cook, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Brigadier General Dave Stilwell, and Director of The Defense Concepts Organization and former Specialist in Military Aviation at the Congressional Research Service, Mr. J.J. Gertler.

Event — April 18, 2023

Battle Networks and the Future Force

This third brief in the series focuses on the importance of integrating allies and partners into future battle networks, the technical and policy challenges involved, and the potential for combined battle networks with allies and partners to enable a new offset strategy.

Brief by Todd Harrison and Christopher Reid — March 4, 2022

Commercial Space Remote Sensing and Its Role in National Security

This CSIS brief explores the ways commercial space remote sensing can support national security and the changes in acquisition approaches and government policies needed to fully leverage the innovation, capabilities, and additional capacity commercial systems can provide.

Brief by Todd Harrison and Matthew Strohmeyer — February 2, 2022

Move Over JARVIS, Meet OSCAR

With the help of AI/ML and unclassified cloud, the IC can reap the benefits of an open-source intelligence revolution. A basic form of Iron Man’s JARVIS, which this paper dubs “OSCAR,” could assist in a wide range of duties, from operations to analysis to support.

Report by Emily Harding — January 19, 2022