Critical Threats Program
Provides DoW stakeholders with research and analysis on the United States’ most dangerous and highest priority state adversaries - China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran - and U.S. efforts to deter and/or defeat these adversaries on the battlefield across conventional, nuclear, cyber, and hybrid domains.
Focus Areas: Strategic deterrence, strategies and capabilities of China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
Defense Industrial Base Program
Provides DoW stakeholders with research and analysis on U.S. defense capabilities and partnerships, focusing on efforts to strengthen the U.S defense industrial base.
Focus Areas: Industrial surge capacity and mobilization planning, industrial integration with U.S. allies and partners.
Future Warfare Program
Provides DoW stakeholders with research and analysis on emerging disruptive technologies and operational concepts that shape the future of U.S. military power and warfare.
Focus Areas: Disruptive technologies, cognitive warfare, non-kinetic engagement, autonomous and semi-autonomous weapons systems, weapons of mass destruction.
Homeland Defense Program
Provides DoW stakeholders with research and analysis on defense strategies and policies to protect the U.S. from external threats and aggression against its territory, population, and critical infrastructure.
Focus Areas: Missile defense, border security, cyber security, transnational criminal organizations, strategic deterrence, and U.S. defense capabilities.
Military Alliances Program
Provided DoW stakeholders with research and analysis on efforts to strengthen U.S. military alliances and partnerships across priority regions.
Focus Areas: Allied military capabilities and readiness, burden-sharing mechanisms across coalitions, defense partnerships.