Research Domain

Defense Industrial Base and Strategic Sourcing

Research on supplier dependency, sourcing concentration, and the structural exposure that financial diligence does not surface.

FAR / DFARS · Section 889 · FIRRMA · Entity List
Domain Statement

What this domain covers

A supply base is a network of ownership and dependency, not a list of vendors. Research in this domain applies node and ownership methodology to commercial sourcing — identifying where dependency concentrates, who ultimately controls a supplier, and which relationships carry adversarial or jurisdictional exposure that standard diligence will not reveal.

Analytic questions

  • Where does sourcing dependency concentrate, and at which tier?
  • Who ultimately controls a given supplier, and through what structure?
  • Which dependencies carry restricted-party or adversarial-jurisdiction exposure?
  • What domestic capacity is prerequisite to a resilient posture?

Methods Applied

  • Dependency and concentration mapping
  • Beneficial-ownership resolution
  • Restricted-party exposure analysis
  • Capacity and substitution assessment

Related Advisory

Standards

Publications

Published work in this domain

Drone Threats to Political Leadership

A working paper series whose third paper examines how CFIUS real-estate review, National Capital Region airspace rules, and counter-UAS authority leave a launch from privately controlled property adjacent to a protected site in the seam between them. Published in the Statecraft & Policy domain.
WP-2026-D · 5 Oct 2026

Denying Chinese Victory

Which military and industrial measures make a Chinese victory hardest to achieve, what each costs, and why the measures that would decide a protracted war — attack-submarine production, shipbuilding, and munitions inventory — cannot mature before the 2030s. Published in the Statecraft & Policy domain.
WP-2026 · 19 Sep 2026

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