-
Nov 21, 2024 | 
csis.org | Erin Murphy |Cynthia Cook |Emily Harding |Gregory Sanders
The Department of Defense (DOD) has become concerned that critical technologies are insufficiently capitalized to support national security. A review of global private capital investment shows that investors have been allocating resources toward software-heavy capabilities, such as e-commerce and software as a service, leaving funding gaps for critical components and capabilities where investors perceive greater risk.
-
Aug 15, 2024 | 
csis.org | Christopher Johnstone |Cynthia Cook |Audrey Aldisert |Leah Klaas
Japan has a long history of restrictions on defense spending and arms exports. These factors, coupled with its “exclusive self-defense” (senshu bouei) policies, have impeded the development of a competitive and strong defense industrial base. Japan’s 2022 National Defense Strategy placed a high priority on strengthening the defense industry, and since then it has taken steps to loosen the restrictions on defense equipment exports to expand opportunities for cooperation.
-
Jul 8, 2024 | 
csis.org | Audrey Aldisert |Cynthia Cook |Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group
This series—featuring scholars from the Futures Lab, the International Security Program, and across CSIS—explores emerging challenges and opportunities that NATO is likely to confront after its 75th 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.
-
May 6, 2024 | 
csis.org | Cynthia Cook |Gregory Sanders |Alexander Holderness |John Schaus
China’s 40-year economic development has transformed it into one of the world’s largest economies and most powerful countries. Over the past 12 years, China has been increasingly willing to leverage its economic might to pressure countries to act in its interest. The United States and its allies and partners are not prepared to counter China’s economic coercion.
-
Apr 18, 2024 | 
csis.org | Cynthia Cook |Anna M. Dowd |Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group
Russia’s war shattered the vision of a peaceful Europe free from the threats of conventional attacks. Over two years later, Ukraine is still struggling to defend itself against an enemy that even in the face of significant loss of soldiers and of material has been able to sustain and perhaps to increase its operational effectiveness. Russia’s initial logistical errors and industrial base weaknesses seem to have been rectified and the operation has become a grinding war of attrition and logistics.
-
Jan 17, 2024 | 
csis.org | Cynthia Cook |Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group
The Department of Defense has just released its first National Defense Industrial Strategy, signed by the deputy secretary of defense and developed by the first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy, Dr. Laura Taylor-Kale. The purpose of this new strategy is to create a cohesive vision for the defense industrial base to meet the stated goal to “catalyze generational change” to create a robust, resilient, and dynamic industrial base.
-
Sep 5, 2023 | 
csis.org | Cynthia Cook |Max Bergmann |Mark Cancian |Gregory Sanders
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 set off a chain of events that has reverberated far beyond the borders of the conflict. Across Europe, a historic effort to rethink defense posture is underway as European states grapple with the implications of the conflict for their own security.
-
Jul 19, 2023 | 
csis.org | Cynthia Cook |Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group |Audrey Aldisert
Constraints on the U.S. defense industrial base and concerns about limited manufacturing capacity have been ascribed to a production approach described as “just-in-time.” Just-in-time production has been identified as one of the explanations for why industry is not set up to immediately surge to refill the warehouses after weapons were sent to Ukraine for its self-defense against the Russian invasion.
-
Jun 9, 2023 | 
defensenews.com | Cynthia Cook
Assessments of European defense technology and its industrial base, including by the European Parliament itself, eloquently describe an ecosystem with numerous challenges. The industrial base is fragmented, and industrial capability is duplicated across national borders. Common European acquisition processes often move very slowly, even by U.S. standards. Procurement issues are compounded by inconsistent demand signals from governments across Europe.
-
Mar 27, 2023 | 
almendron.com | Cynthia Cook
As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, both Russian and Ukrainian forces are at risk of running out of weapons and equipment. Tanks, guns, and long-range missile systems have been destroyed in battles across Ukraine, and both armies are burning through munitions at a furious rate. Russia has worked to increase its defense production and is channeling munitions straight from its factories to the frontlines.
