Defense Industrial Base INSTITUTE
About the institute
Ingenuity. Speed. Scale.
To guide and activate the transformation of our nation’s defense industrial base, we’re assembling teams that will form agile test-and-learn ecosystems, identify new strategies and innovations, quickly test feasibility, and make debiased decisions for guiding investments and actions on a national scale.
About our Task Forces
Task Force 1: Overcoming Barriers
WHO: Defense industry leaders, government officials, and top national security experts
CHARGE: Unpack the complexities and challenges that are getting in the way of progress
Task Force 2: Innovative Financing
WHO: Financial industry leaders, government officials, and top national security experts
CHARGE: Identify new ways to activate private capital to coinvest with public funds to catalyze defense production
About our Advisory Councils
Industry Advisory Board
WHO: Industry leaders with experience in the financial services, advanced manufacturing and defense sectors, and supply chain and logistics
CHARGE: Identify innovative practices that have the potential to scale once they have been validated
Strategic Advisory Board
WHO: Leaders from the private sector with expertise in defense, financial services, advanced manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, and infrastructure
CHARGE: Provide guidance to the executive leadership of the Defense Industrial Base Initiative on strategic focus and operations
About our Rapid Solution Teams
Top Academic Experts
WHO: Transdisciplinary teams with the specialized expertise to rigorously study innovation opportunities
CHARGE: Assess and validate potential best practices, with recommendations for transforming defense production capabilities on a national scale
Team
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Elana Broitman
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Courtney Frazee
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Danielle Shariff
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Rapid Solution Teams
Our Rapid Solution Teams will validate and recommend ways to rapidly replicate innovations and best practices. We will identify and sponsor small, agile groups of researchers from universities and research institutes to provide expert assessments of feasibility and scalability. Over six to nine months, the team will embrace a participatory process to get early feedback and to engage key stakeholders on findings and recommendations.
Expanding the shipyard workforce
A research team is evaluating a new way for higher education institutions to facilitate community engagement in scaling the recruitment and retention of new shipyard workers.
Strengthening submarine manufacturing capacity
A research team is evaluating how a novel private investment fund could bolster federal funding to expand shipyard capacity in Mobile, Alabama, for submarine module manufacturing.