Jesse Ellman
Associate Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Jesse Ellman is an associate fellow with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) at CSIS. He specializes in U.S. defense acquisition policy, with a particular focus on services and research and development contracting trends at the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security; U.S. defense industrial base policy; and recent U.S. Army modernization efforts.
Identifying and obtaining innovation from the commercial sector has been an ongoing challenge for the Department of Defense (DoD). With new breakthroughs in both technology and processes emerging [...] More
As 2017 begins, it is worth reflecting on the current state and future direction of Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition. Contract data from the Federal Procurement Data System provides a robust [...] More
