Defense contract obligations grew by 8 percent in FY 2020, driven by spending on products manufactured by the Big Five defense contractors and coinciding with dramatic shifts in acquisition and strategic priorities.

SOURCE: "2021 Defense Acquisition Trends: Topline DoD Trends after a Half Decade of Growth" by CSIS's Won Joon Jang and Gregory Sanders.

DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office aims to increase new U.S. photovoltaic manufacturing capacity by 1 GW per year and installed solar hardware to contain at least 40 percent domestic value as the United States has lost roughly 80 percent of its global market share in the production of components of the solar supply chain over the last decade.

SOURCE: "The U.S. Solar Industry Strategy" by CSIS's Lachlan Carey.

In 2019, an estimated 1.4 million Kenyans were living with HIV, 90,000 of whom were children under the age of 14. Now, after nearly two years, the ongoing events of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to set back progress in achieving high-priority goals for global health, including providing urgent help to children living with HIV.

SOURCE: "Kenya's Pediatric HIV Response Under Covid-19" by CSIS's Katherine Bliss and Michaela Simoneau.

The Air Force continues developing and procuring next-generation aircraft to meet the demands of great power conflict. The FY 2022 budget procures 91 manned aircraft but no remotely piloted aircraft, so the unmanned fleet has plateaued at 6 to 7 percent of the force.

SOURCE: "U.S. Military Forces in FY 2022: Air Force" by CSIS's Mark Cancian.