Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group

Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group
The Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) focuses on issues related to the health and management of the global defense-industrial base.

Cost-plus Contracting Narrated Slide Show 04/03/2009

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The Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) focuses on issues related to the health and management of the global defense-industrial base. The group's research is organized around three major areas: top-down analyses concerning the overall health of the defense industry, bottom-up research on various industry sectors, and initiatives on particular policy topics related to the defense industry and globalization.

Projects

  • Current Issues

    A short newsletter packed with analysis and solid data on key current issues relevant to the U.S. defense industrial base and related broader topics.

  • Defense Industrial Base and Acquisition

    The Defense Industrial Base and Acquisition project focuses on assessing the health of the U.S. defense industry and analyzing the U.S. defense acquisition process.

  • European Defense Integration

    The European Defense project tracks trends in European defense spending, defense policy, and the European defense industrial base to provide detailed insights in Europe’s defense strategy.

  • Organizing for a Complex World

    The Organizing For A Complex World project takes on the issue of how to organize the creation of increasingly complex weapon systems and develop metrics for assessing these systems.

  • Professional Services Industrial Base

    The Professional Services Industrial Base project analyzes the growing reliance of the U.S. government on the private sector for professional and support services.

  • The Pentagon

    The Strengthening the Core project examines how the government and the private sector can work together to keep the defense industry competitive in an increasingly complex and fast-paced business environment.

  • U.S. Defense Export Control Regulations

    The Export Control project monitors developments aimed at preventing the illicit spread of dual use goods as well as facilitating legitimate international defense cooperation.