The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is the world’s premier center for understanding future international competition and conflict. We develop innovative, resource-informed defense concepts, promote public debate, and spur action to advance U.S. and allied interests.
Founded in 1983 as the Defense Budget Project, CSBA has long been a leading source of independent, path-breaking research focused on the future of defense, and defense budget data and analysis.
CSBA provides timely, impartial and insightful analyses to senior decision makers in the executive and legislative branches, as well as to the media and the broader national security establishment. CSBA encourages thoughtful participation in the development of national security strategy and policy, and in the allocation of scarce human and capital resources. CSBA’s analysis and outreach focus on key questions related to existing and emerging threats to U.S. national security. Meeting these challenges will require transforming the national security establishment, and we are devoted to helping achieve this end.
The heart of CSBA is its staff of uniquely qualified defense experts who conduct in-depth strategic and budgetary analyses. Experts include military veterans representing the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, with over 130 years of cumulative experience in joint military operations. The staff also includes a number of experts who have served in senior level policymaking positions within the Department of Defense, Department of State, and the National Security Council.
CSBA experts and strategists bring the benefit of diverse backgrounds and experiences to our research. Our research methods include: