Employment Opportunities at CSBA

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The heart of CSBA is our staff, which includes uniquely qualified defense experts and a dedicated operations team who ensure excellence across all endeavors.

Our reputation is built on objectivity and the quality of our people. CSBA provides an exciting intellectual environment and opportunities for career growth. If you are interested in applying for an open position, please submit your resume and a brief statement of interest (no more than 300 words) in a single document to info@csbaonline.org.

Open Positions:

Manager of Strategic Initiatives and Engagement

This position is ideal for someone interested in the business and external affairs side of defense and national security who wishes to increase the impact of research and analysis.

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Defense Studies Intern (Spring 2025)

CSBA is currently seeking candidates for a full- or part-time, paid Spring 2025 internship with flexible start and end dates. The intern’s primary responsibility will be data collection for a project on current and future Russian military forces, the cost of those forces, and potential modernization options for the Russian military. The selected candidate will also gain exposure to a wide range of defense policy issues.

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Equal Opportunities

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is committed to providing employment opportunities to individuals whose experience and abilities best match job requirements. It is the policy of CSBA, in accordance with the provisions of local, state, and federal legislation dealing with employment and personnel practices, to ensure equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, sexual preference, physical or mental disability, marital status, disabled veterans, recent separated veterans, armed forces service medal veterans and active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans.

Podcast: Paul Nitze: National Security’s Forgotton Man

August 1, 2024 Shield of the Republic

Eric and Eliot host James Graham Wilson, an historian in the Department of State's Historian's Office, to discuss his new book, America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security From Roosevelt to Reagan.

Analysis

US faces growing threats, and we’re woefully unprepared. Here’s how to fix that.

August 1, 2024 The Hill

The national security threats against the U.S. are as significant as and more complex than they were at the height of the Cold War or even World War II. We are not prepared to meet these threats today and could, in very short order, find ourselves in a war across multiple theaters with peer and near-peer adversaries that we could lose.

Press Releases

CSBA Welcomes New Team Members

July 31, 2024

The heart of CSBA is our team of uniquely qualified defense experts and operations professionals. We are thrilled to introduce staff who have joined our team in 2024 and those who have recently stepped into new roles within our organization.

Analysis

Video: Eric Edelman and Mara Rudman on U.S. Military Readiness

July 31, 2024 C-SPAN

The Commission on the National Defense Strategy Vice Chair Eric Edelman and Commissioner Mara Rudman talk about the bipartisan panel’s report on U.S. defense strategy and military readiness.

Arsenal of Democracy: Myth or Model? Lessons for 21st-Century Industrial Mobilization Planning

Ready Player None? An End-To-End Assessment of the Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program

No Dominant Strategy for Air Dominance: Collaborative Combat Aircraft Employment, Basing, and Sortie Generation in a Taiwan Scenario

Peaceful Resolution: Reframing U.S. Defense Strategy Toward Taiwan

Relook Playbook: Defense Budgeting Insights From a CSBA Rebalancing Exercise

The Lost Art of the Bargaining Chip? The Case for Gaining Negotiating Leverage for Nuclear Arms Control With Russia and China

Focused Force: China’s Military Challenge and Australia’s Response

Putting It All Together: The 2025 Defense Budget Request, Alternative Budget Proposals, and NATO Spending

More of the Same? The Future of the Russian Military And Its Ability to Change

Strengthening the Phalanx: Layered, Comprehensive, and Distributed Air and Missile Defense in the Indo-Pacific

Inconsistent Congress: Analysis of the 2024 Defense Budget Request

Evaluate Like We Operate: Why DOD Should Evaluate Weapons Systems as Networked Force Packages, Not Individual Platforms

Extending Deterrence by Detection: The Case for Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems Into the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness

Beyond Precision: Maintaining America’s Strike Advantage in Great Power Conflict

Featured Event

Report Release Webinar: Strengthening the Phalanx: Layered, Comprehensive, and Distributed Air and Missile Defense in the Indo-Pacific

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Open Positions:

Manager of Strategic Initiatives and Engagement

Defense Studies Intern (Spring 2025)

Latest News

Hostages, Assassinations, and the Future of National Defense

News Coverage: National Defense Strategy Commission Report

Podcast: Paul Nitze: National Security’s Forgotton Man

US faces growing threats, and we’re woefully unprepared. Here’s how to fix that.

CSBA Welcomes New Team Members

Video: Eric Edelman and Mara Rudman on U.S. Military Readiness