Aligning military, government, industry, and security practitioners to advance European-led deterrence and defense by 2035.

The Strategic Reality

Supercharging the Defense Industrial Base and supporting NATO 3.0

Industrial readiness has become a prerequisite for credible deterrence. While Allied and partner nations continue to strengthen their defense capabilities, the transatlantic defense industrial base faces growing pressure to generate capability at the speed and scale required by today's security environment. Deterrence is increasingly constrained by industrial capacity, production scalability, regulatory barriers, and the ability to align demand with output.

The GAP

Traditional planning often assumes industrial capacity that has not been tested under realistic conditions. Investment decisions frequently lack consistent demand signals, policies are developed without real-time operational and industrial insight, and innovation struggles to transition across technology, military, policy, industrial, and educational domains.

The Transatlantic Industrial Readiness Program (TIRP) was established to help close that gap by creating a shared operating environment where military leaders, policymakers, industry, academia, and security practitioners can identify challenges, test assumptions, and develop practical approaches before crisis forces reactive solutions.

The Marshall Center Approach

The Marshall Center provides the trusted U.S.-German platform that brings together the communities responsible for shaping operational requirements, government policy, industrial production, innovation, and professional development.

Rather than creating another standalone initiative, TIRP integrates the Marshall Center's core strengths through a continuous cycle that creates a shared operating environment for aligning decisions at speed and scale.

What Makes TIRP Different

TIRP complements existing initiatives by focusing on synchronization across military, government, industry, and the broader security community. Rather than creating another forum for discussion, it provides a repeatable framework for developing practical approaches to defense industrial readiness.

Its distinguishing characteristics include:

• Execution-driven experimentation, analysis, and application. 
• Wargaming that tests industrial readiness under realistic scenarios
• Professional development for leaders operating at the operational-industrial interface
• System-level integration connecting demand, policy, production, and innovation in a continuous cycle.
• A transatlantic perspective leveraging a U.S.–German foundation to examine and compare both U.S. and European defense industrial policies and approaches to industrial readiness.

Why the Marshall Center

The Marshall Center is uniquely positioned to lead this effort through its:

• Established partnerships across the U.S. and Europe that connect military, government, industry, academia, and the broader security community.
• Access to the Munich defense ecosystem, including leading defense and dual-use companies, research institutions, start-ups, and innovation networks.
• 30 years of resident education, strategic engagement, applied research, and regional outreach.
• Global alumni network of more than 17,000 security professionals.

TIRP aligns military demand, government policy, industrial production, innovation, and security expertise so the transatlantic defense industrial base can deliver at the speed and scale required for European-led deterrence and defense.