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Technology & National Security
What Europe Got Wrong About the NSAOver the last several years, as western Europe has been hit by Islamist terrorist attack after Islamist terrorist attack, Germany has largely avoided the violence. But the ref...
By Adam Klein & Michèle Flournoy
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Technology & National Security
Who’ll want artificially intelligent weapons? ISIS, democracies, or autocracies?One of the biggest fears about the nexus of artificial intelligence and the military is that machine learning—a type of artificial intelligence that allows computers to learn ...
By Michael Horowitz
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Technology & National Security
Game of Drones: What Happens When Everyone Has Killer Robots?At the end of June, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released a report counting U.S. counterterrorism drone strikes outside areas of active hostilities and resultin...
By Alexandra Sander
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Technology & National Security
Adam Klein Discusses the Security Implications of BrexitThe British referendum to leave the European Union is a massive shock to the European political order. But what are its implications for U.S. foreign policy? Conventional w...
By Adam Klein
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Technology & National Security
Defense Innovation - Between a Rock and a ClichéBy Ben FitzGerald
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National Security Human Capital Program / Technology & National Security
Put the X-47B Back to Work — As a TankerSalty Dog 501 and 502 sit silent in their hangars, their expected contributions to naval aviation unfulfilled. Before the Navy spends time and money ginning up another expensi...
By Jerry Hendrix
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National Security Human Capital Program / Technology & National Security
The B-21 Bomber Should Be Unmanned on Day 1While plans for the B-21 — née Long Range Strike-Bomber — have long included an unmanned option, Air Force officials have shown little interest in having that capability on Da...
By Kelley Sayler & Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Statement at United Nations CCW Expert Meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapon SystemsAs we enter our third year of discussions on lethal autonomous weapons, I would like to applaud states for their continued engagement on this important topic as well as offer ...
By Kelley Sayler & Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Reforming Acquisitions and the Need for SpeedThis month, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, unveiled new acquisition reform legislation. The draft stand-alone bill is noteworthy from a ...
By Alexandra Sander, Ben FitzGerald & Jacqueline Parziale
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Building social science knowledge on public attitudes and autonomous weaponsLast week, Charli Carpenter published an important piece advancing the conversation about public attitudes, public conscience, and autonomous weapons. Her post critiqued my re...
By Michael Horowitz
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Autonomous Weapons in the NewsNew CNAS Research on Autonomous Weapons CNAS Adjunct Senior Fellow Michael C. Horowitz released two papers this week on issues surrounding autonomous weapons. Public opinion a...
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Technology & National Security
Opinion: Cybersecurity collaboration needs a toolkit. So we built a prototypeFinancial sector institutions from the US and Britain tested their cybersecurity cooperation last month in a joint exercise, dubbed operation Resilient Shield. The table-top e...
By Alexandra Sander & Ben FitzGerald
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Technology & National Security
Ben FitzGerald before the Senate Armed Services CommitteeSenior Fellow Ben FitzGerald testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the next steps regarding acquisition reform....
By Ben FitzGerald
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Smartphone Wars are ComingWe are living today in the midst of the greatest democratization of information since the invention of the printing press. Smartphones transform any person into a citizen repo...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
A Better, Smarter Approach to Beating ISISThe ISIS threat looms large in the American psyche. Recent polling shows that strong percentages of Americans support sending ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Re...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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Defense / Technology & National Security
INFOGRAPHIC: The Value of EnduranceDownload a PDF of the infographic....
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Testimony before the Senate Armed Services CommitteeA video of the entire hearing is available online....
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
How American Can Cross the Digital Security DivideIn the past year, the United States has learned about unprecedented digital data breaches ranging from the confidential files of Sony Pictures, to the security clearance recor...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Paul Scharre on the Future of the Ground Forces ProjectBy Paul Scharre
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Crackdown: Time to Pressure China on Cyber TheftAt last month’s state visit by Chinese president Xi Jinping, both Xi and President Obama pledged that their governments would refrain from cyberespionage targeting intellectua...
By Harry Krejsa