Insights & Data
Briefs
These intelligence briefs offer a deeper dive into regional strengths, partnerships, and workforce considerations for professionals working in manufacturing and workforce development.
Defense Manufacturing Issue Briefs
Issue Briefs translate federal defense manufacturing issues and policy into plain-language intelligence for state and local government officials — particularly governors and their economic development and workforce teams. As defense industrial base policies increasingly affect local and state economies, the Issue Briefs provide insight into new and emerging issues.
State Intelligence Briefs
State Intelligence Briefs are part of a series of briefs developed by CREC to support the Department of Defense Manufacturing Innovation Institutes’s strategy, regional partnerships, and defense industrial base engagement. These briefs are useful to workforce professionals, small to mid-sized manufacturers, and local and state officials who are interested in developing relationships within their region to strengthen their local economy.