Then-Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti tours a Rhode Island facility responsible for helping make Virginia- and-Columbia class submarines, October 2023. (Chief MC Amanda R. Gray/U.S.

Industrial policy is making a global comeback, with the World Bank reversing decades of opposition to acknowledge its resurgence. Fueled by slowing global growth, fragile supply chains, the energy ...

Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante speaks in the Pentagon Press Briefing Room Sept. 9, 2022. (U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza/DoD) Editor’s ...

The U.S. faces unprecedented threats to its national security. Our adversaries use coercive economic and trade practices to build their military power to levels not seen since World War II, while ...

One thing is clear in the Pentagon’s first and much-anticipated defense industrial strategy: weapons and technologies must be purchased and ready for mass production quickly. But the question remains: ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has identified six areas of focus necessary to implement its first-ever industrial defense strategy meant to strengthen shipbuilding efforts and weapons production to keep ...

• The National Defense Industrial Strategy provides a vision for revitalizing the industrial base. Aligning the budget to the strategy is foundational to its success. • The procurement budget is ...

Industrial organizations collect mountains of data on everything from asset performance to maintenance needs, but many lack a plan for how to organize that data or maximize its value. In fact, 60% to ...

What it cares about is steering defense dollars toward Canadian firms, Canadian intellectual property and Canadian supply chains.

This commentary is part of Energy Rewired, a project from the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program studying the industrial strategies of major economies for the energy transition. The ...