
Gregory Sanders is deputy director and fellow with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at CSIS, where he manages a research team that analyzes data on U.S. government contract spending and other budget and acquisition issues. He employs data visualization and other ways to use complex data collections to create succinct and innovative tables, charts, and maps. His recent research focuses on contract spending by major government departments, contingency contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and European and Asian defense budgets. This work requires management of data from a variety of databases, most notably the Federal Procurement Database System, and extensive cross-referencing of multiple budget data sources. In support of these goals, he employs SQL Server, as well as the statistical programming language R. Sanders holds an M.A. in international studies from the University of Denver and a B.A. in government and politics, as well as a B.S. in computer science, from the University of Maryland.
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For 13th time, sensitive military information leaked on ‘War Thunder’
Gregory Sanders in Task & Purpose — September 28, 2023
U.S. Army’s selection of V-280 Valor, a tiltrotor, could be a benefit to those pitching civilian electric tiltrotors
Gregory Sanders in Aerospace America — December 15, 2022
Pentagon maintains Ukrainian military assistance won't hurt US readiness
Gregory Sanders in Washington Examiner — July 11, 2022
Joe Biden Wants More Defense Contractors to Fight the New Cold War
Cynthia Cook and Gregory Sanders in Newsweek — April 25, 2022
Defense industry expert on defense acquisition spending trends
Gregory Sanders in Government Matters — December 9, 2021
DoD spending data tells us how serious the Pentagon is about a shift to great power competition
Gregory Sanders in Federal News Network — October 7, 2021
What Does Consolidation Mean for Performance? Concentration, Competition, and Defense Contracting Outcomes
Gregory Sanders and Zach Huitink in Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation — May 20, 2020
4 Questions Hovering Over Deal to Create a Giant Defense Contractor
Gregory Sanders in The New York Times — June 11, 2019
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Mapping the U.S. DOD Acquisition Ecosystem
Transatlantic Defense during Wartime
Report by Cynthia Cook Max Bergmann Mark F. Cancian Gregory Sanders Sissy Martinez Otto Svendsen and Nicholas Velazquez — September 5, 2023
Rising Demand and Proliferating Supply of Military UAS
Report by Gregory Sanders Rose Butchart Astrid Price Dan Steinberg and Alexander Holderness — May 24, 2023
Managing Risk and Technology Insertion in Crewed Tactical Jet Engines
Brief by Alexander Holderness Gregory Sanders and Nicholas Velazquez — April 18, 2023
Powering Proliferation: The Global Engine Market and China’s Indigenization
Brief by Alexander Holderness Nicholas Velazquez Jasmine Phillips Gregory Sanders and Cynthia Cook — March 21, 2023
2023 CHEY-CSIS Conference: Cooperation on Scientific Innovation, Supply Chains, and Geopolitical Risk in Northeast Asia
Event — March 9, 2023
Executive Summary: 2021 CSIS-DAPA Conference
Report by Gregory Sanders — December 5, 2022
Inflating the Risk? Contracting in the Face of Inflation
Critical Questions by Gregory Sanders and Alexander Holderness — December 1, 2022
Keeping the U.S. Military Engine Edge: Budget and Contract Trends
Brief by Gregory Sanders and Nicholas Velazquez — October 31, 2022
Pathways to Implementing Comprehensive and Collaborative JADC2
Report by Cynthia Cook Rose Butchart Gregory Sanders and Alexander Holderness — September 27, 2022