Evolving Partnership between DoD & Industry

Engaging in dialogue with DoD and industry partners as well as through focused research, DIIG explores this critical partnership and its effect on important defense topics

Aimed at reinvigorating the conversation between DoD and the defense industry, DIIG has launched a series of reports, events, and research efforts focusing on the major challenges and opportunities stemming from the defense industry’s relationship with DoD. Ongoing shifts in the way the Pentagon conducts business affects both the department and the industry that services it. DIIG pursues research and leverages expertise in how continuing innovation, evolving national security priorities, accommodating industry’s global reality, and preserving an open investment climate will continue to affect core relationships in the U.S. defense industrial base. This undertaking of a wide range of assessments will aim to improve the understanding and effectiveness between DoD and the defense industry.

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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

2021 Defense Acquisition Trends: Topline DoD Trends after a Half Decade of Growth

Defense contract obligations grew by 8 percent in FY 2020, driven by spending on products manufactured by the Big Five defense contractors. On the cusp of a new National Security Strategy, this piece explores how a half-decade of growth has changed defense acquisition.

Critical Questions by Gregory Sanders, Won Joon Jang, and Alexander Holderness — December 2, 2021

Battle Networks and the Future Force

This paper draws on lessons from previous attempts to improve battle network integration and explores how DoD can properly scope the problem and organize itself to effectively and efficiently acquire the systems needed to realize its vision for JADC2.

Brief by Todd Harrison — November 2, 2021