Internationally renowned expertise
IRIS is recognised nationally and internationally for its work. The Institute has been commissioned to prepare consultancy reports, research and studies on the defence industry for both public- and private-sector clients. The Institute’s works aims to inform decision-making and provide analysis to government agencies and defence industries.
To help companies navigate and advance in a complex defence environment and grow internationally, IRIS offers a range of services and expertise that are suited to short-, medium- and long-term needs and strategies.
An interdisciplinary team, the power of experience
The research team is organised around a core of in-house research fellows who cooperate with a number of associate research fellows. The team is interdisciplinary and includes researchers with backgrounds in political science, the economics of the defence industry and defence industry engineers. Research teams bring together interdisciplinary experts with country experts to cover the full range of defence- and security-industry issues.
IRIS has links with French and EU defence agency officials, including from the European Defence Agency and the European Commission, as well as with the defence industry and with civil society.
An in-depth expertise
The programme looks at:
– the economic, industrial and technological capacities of defence technology and industrial bases in France, in the EU and internationally;
– national defence industry policy; – defence and security innovation policies;
– integration of EU armament policies: regulation, cooperation, research financing;
– export policies and export control policies;
– defence and security markets;
– international arms trade regulation, civil society and armament, ethics and armament.
Ares Group, an international network lead by IRIS
IRIS leads an international group of defence-industry researchers through its Armament Industry European Research Group (ARES Group). A Steering Board, composed of defence agency officials and private-sector representatives from France and the EU, determines the Group’s work programme. ARES’ work deals with current defence issues in the EU. It also provides insight and better understanding of the medium- and long-term issues affecting the defence and security industry
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