Discover • Contribute • Build Evidence • Progress

Find your next step into strategic industry.

The industries and capabilities behind America's ability to build.

SIS connects students to the industries and capabilities that underpin economic security, national security, and America's ability to build.

Explore OpportunitiesFor Industry

Your access to the strategic industrial ecosystem

There is an enormous industrial world around you.

SIS helps you navigate the landscapeExample organizations only. Display does not imply an SIS partnership, endorsement, or current opening.

Your interface to the strategic industrial ecosystem.

You Strategic Industries SocietyExplore the landscape →

Defense & Aerospace

Energy

Infrastructure & Construction

Advanced Manufacturing

Technology, AI & Systems

Logistics & Supply Chain

Opportunity pathways

Find where you fit.

From discovery to participationThese moving rows describe the SIS model, not a count of live opportunities.
Internships
AerospaceManufacturingEnergyInfrastructureTechnology
Projects
Supply-chain mappingIndustry researchMarket analysisFacility systems
Certifications
CloudIndustrial automationCADProject management
Site visits
ManufacturingAerospaceEnergyConstruction
Volunteer
ResearchIndustry challengeEventsMentorship
See illustrative pathway previews →

Opportunity preview

A closer look at participation.

Illustrative records show how SIS could surface internships, projects, research, and industry access. They are not current openings or partner commitments.

SIS · PATHWAY PREVIEWIllustrative
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Opportunities

3 sample records
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Projects

Deeper participation
DefenseRecruiting

L3Harris — illustrative scenario

Defense Supply-Chain Risk Mapping

Identify second- and third-tier supplier vulnerabilities for a specified component category using public and sponsor-approved data.

AerospaceRecruiting

Utah aerospace manufacturer — illustrative scenario

Additive Manufacturing Feasibility Study

Determine whether additive manufacturing is economically and technically viable for a low-volume aerospace component family.

Preview environment · public and unclassified information onlyJoin the interest list →

SIS interfaces

One system. Three useful views.

SIS gives students a map, members a readiness signal, and organizations a governed way to bring forward bounded needs. Each view is shown here as a preview—not a separate marketing destination.

01 · IndustriesSystem map

See the system, not isolated sectors.

Understand how production, energy, infrastructure, technology, logistics, and workforce capability depend on one another.

Defense & aerospaceAdvanced manufacturingEnergyInfrastructureTechnology & systemsLogistics & supply chain
02 · My SISMember preview
Sample memberReady for projects · 5–10 hours/week
  1. 01
    ProfileInterests, skills, availability
  2. 02
    MatchRelevant pathways surfaced
  3. 03
    EvidenceContribution becomes legible

Illustrative profile · no member data is shown

03 · For IndustryGoverned intake

Start with a bounded problem.

SIS reviews the source, scope, sensitivity, and best pathway before anything reaches students.

  1. Problem receivedPrivate
  2. Scope and sensitivity reviewedHuman review
  3. Appropriate pathway selectedControlled
Preview the problem intake →

How participation works

Move from exposure to useful, reviewable work.

SIS · PARTICIPATION PATHWAYHuman reviewed
01Stage

Bring a problem

An organization frames a bounded need, question, or opportunity.

02Stage

Form the team

SIS coordinates the right students, disciplines, and human review.

03Stage

Deliver evidence

The team produces a defined output and records what was learned.

Projects · research · site visits · internships · mentorshipExplore project previews →

Join SIS

Find your place in the ecosystem.

Students, professionals, alumni, and companies can use the same short form. SIS will follow up as programming, visits, speakers, projects, and membership details come together.

SIS · INTEREST INTAKEOpen