Major Defense Reports
Must read reports on transforming the defense acquisition enterprise and national security innovation base.
Ending Innovation Tourism
CSET Policy Brief
Jul 2021
Regaining the Digital Advantage
Bryan Clark and Dan Patt
Jul 2021
Countering China
Defense One
Jun 2021
Building an Agile Force
Lt Gen (ret) David Deptula, Heather Penney
May 2021
U.S. Space Force Vision for a Digital Service
USSF CTIO
May 2021
Maintaining Momentum in National Security Space
Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress
May 2021
Air Force Acquisition Biennial Report
U.S. Air Force
Apr 2021
Five by Five: Five Disciplines and Five Strategic Initiatives for the Pentagon in the Digital Age
Pete Modigliani, Dan Ward, Matt MacGregor
Mar 2021
National Security Commission on AI Final Report
NSCAI
Feb 2021
Competing in Time: Ensuring Capability Advantage and Mission Success through Adaptable Resource Allocation
William Greenwalt and Dan Patt
Feb 2021
Vital Signs 2021: Health and Readiness of the Defense Industrial Base
NDIA and Govini
Feb 2021
Bending the Spoon: Guidebook for Digital Engineering and e-Series
Dr. Will Roper
Jan 2021
Myths and Realities of China's Military-Civil Fusion Strategy
Elsa Kania, Lorand Laskai, CNAS
Jan 2021
2020
U.S. Defense Industrial Base: Can It Compete in the Next Century?
National Security Institute and Duco
Nov 2020
There Is No Spoon: The New Digital Acquisition Reality
Dr. Will Roper
Oct 2020
Future of Defense Task Force Report 2020
House Armed Services Committee
Sep 2020
Battle Networks: Innovation and Kill Chains for the Future Fight
Eliahu Niewood and Greg Grant
Sep 2020
Accelerate Change or Lose
General CQ Brown Jr.
Aug 2020
Analysis of the FY 2021 Defense Budget
Todd Harrison, Seamus Daniels
Aug 2020
The Defense Industrial Base of the Future
Mikhail Grinberg, CNAS
Jul 2020
Defense Acquisitions Annual Assessment 2020
Government Accountability Office
Jun 2020
Alternative Acquisition System for the U.S. Space Force
Barbara Barrett
May 2020
Modernizing DoD Requirements
Pete Modigliani, Dan Ward, Tyler Lewis, and Wayne McGee, The MITRE Corp.
Mar 2020
Weapon System Acquisition Cost 2020
OUSD Comptroller
Feb 2020
Twin Pillars: Upholding National Security and Innovation
Samuel Brannen, Christian Haig, Katherine Schmidt, and Kathleen Hicks, CSIS
Jan 2020
2019
The Contest for Innovation
Ronald Reagan Institute
Dec 2019
Make Good Choices, DoD
Susanna Blume and Molly Parrish
Nov 2019
Acquisition of Software-Defined Hardware-Based Adaptable Systems
Maura Rose McQuade, Andrew Hunter, Schuyler Moore, CSIS
Aug 2019
Software Is Never Done
Defense Innovation Board
May 2019
Leveraging the National Technology Industrial Base to Address Great Power Competition
William Greenwalt, Atlantic Council
Apr 2019
Accelerating Defense Acquisition
Pete Modigliani and Dan Ward, The MITRE Corp.
Apr 2019
Acquisition Trends 2018
Rhys McCormick, Samantha Cohen, Gregory Sanders, Andrew Hunter, CSIS
Apr 2019
Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Regulations
Section 809 Panel
Jan 2019
2018 and Earlier
Providing for the Common Defense
National Defense Strategy Commission
Nov 2018
Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base
EO 13806 Task Force
Sep 2018
National Technology and Industrial Base Integration
Rhys McCormick, Samantha Cohen, Andrew Hunter, Gregory Sanders, CSIS
Mar 2018
Design and Acquisition of Software for Defense Systems
Defense Science Board
Feb 2018
National Defense Strategy
Jim Mattis
Jan 2018
China Technology Transfer Strategy
Michael Brown and Pavneet Singh
Jan 2018
Authority, Autonomy, and Accountability
Roger Thrasher, Eliahu Niewood, Dan Ward, and Pete Modigliani, The MITRE Corp.
Jun 2017
Future Foundry
Ben FitzGerald, Alexandra Sander, and Jacqueline Parziale, CNAS
Dec 2016
Leveraging Commercial Technology
Ben FitzGerald and Alexandra Sander, CNAS
Dec 2016
DoD Should Streamline Its Decision Making Processes
Government Accountability Office
Feb 2015
Pathway to Transformation
Jon Etherton and Arnold Punaro, NDIA
Nov 2014
Where Do We Go From Here?
Senate Compendium of Leading Experts
Oct 2014
Creative Disruption
Ben FitzGerald and Kelley Sayler, CNAS
Jun 2014
Defense Acquisition Reform 1960-2009 An Elusive Goal
J. Ronald Fox
2011
Driving in the Dark
Richard Danzig, CNAS
Oct 2011