Over the past 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that US supply chains have firmly established themselves as an issue of both economic security and national security. Late night calls in search of masks for our nurses, hand sanitizer for our citizens, and microchips for our automakers, laid bare these vulnerabilities in the commercial sector. That searing experience put new focus on defense supply chains – meaning the international networks that provide the goods and ...Read more >

As the Integrated Review sets out, the United Kingdom has a global role and global responsibilities. We are a Permanent Member of the United Nations, a leading member of the Commonwealth, a lynchpin member of NATO, and a vital contributor to wider European security, with enduring relationships to our Five Eyes partners and to our many friends and allies around the world. ...Read more >

The DIB is a people industry. A few companies may have solutions or technologies that others cannot match, but for the vast majority - even the largest companies - maintaining a competitive edge depends on talent. A skilled and diverse workforce is more likely to deliver results on time. As a result competition for skilled, experienced talent in the DIB can be ...Read more >

In 2018, the Department of Defense (DoD) released “Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States” (13806 Report), a report focused on the production risks to critical defense industrial supply chains. The report starkly framed the health of the U.S. defense industrial base (DIB) as key to the readiness of the United States in an age of great-power competition. Despite the 13806 Report’s high-resolution ...Read more >

In the post-Cold War period, the defense industry had a major influence on the hierarchy of State powers (Neuman 2010) however, the defense sector received little or no attention from scholars and professionals, which justifies this research. Since the end of the Cold War, the defense industry changed, as the nature of war shifted from large arsenals to highly innovative and highly accurate weapon systems (PwC 2005). Thus, the defense industry had to adapt to survive in order to reduce ...Read more >

The United States has entered a new era of great-power competition with China. As the country makes this shift, policymakers are forced to reevaluate some lingering assumptions that drove defense policy during the Cold War, the country’s last period of sustained great-power competition. The competition with the Soviet Union was a competition between two spheres that rarely overlapped: The United States had very little commerce with the Soviet Union, and the global economy was ...Read more >

Over the past decade, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has issued a series of analytical reports on federal contract spending for national security and across the government. ...Read more >