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Defense / Technology & National Security
America's Secret Weapon for Battlefield Dominance: Build the SwarmThe U.S. military is at a crisis point. We are staring down the barrel of a future where U.S. military technological superiority may no longer be a given wherethe military str...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
UN Side Meeting in New York on Autonomous WeaponsAs part of meetings held by the United Nations General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament & International Security, the Republic of Croatia sponsored a side event tit...
By Michael Horowitz
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Defense / Technology & National Security
To Save Money, Go UnmannedU.S. Defense Department leaders have called for a renewed effort to sustain America’s military technological dominance, but to do so they will have to fight an uphill battle a...
By Daniel Burg & Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Technology strategy then and now – the Long Range Research and Development Planning ProgramDeputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work has called for a new offset strategy to help maintain the United States’ military technical superiority. But is a third offset strategy th...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The Coming Swarm: Robotics on the BattlefieldThe unfolding robotics revolution is transforming a range of industries, from manufacturing to transportation, warehouse management, household appliances, toys, elder care and...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
To Save the Navy’s Next-Gen Drone, Kill It FirstThe Defense Department was set to release this summer the final request for proposal for the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike, or UCLASS, aircraft, b...
By Paul Scharre & Shawn Brimley
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program / Technology & National Security
Do Drones Have A Future?Thirteen years ago today the Predator drone saw its first armed reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan. Since then, the U.S. military drone fleet has grown by leaps and bounds....
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program / Technology & National Security
Hendrix: The Navy Has No Strategy? A Response to Randy ForbesBy all measures Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., is a maritime strategist and a supporter of the United States Navy. He is chairman of the House Armed Services Seapower Subcommittee....
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program / Technology & National Security
Is the U.S. Air Force Set for a "Crash Landing"?In its recently-released thirty-year strategy document, the Air Force lays out a clear vision for its future. Unlike many government strategy documents, America’s Air Force: A...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Left Behind: Why It's Time to Draft Robots for CASEVACWith thousands of air and ground robots in the field, you could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. military has embraced unmanned systems. The truth is that they are used ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
The U.S. Needs More DronesAl-Qaeda is morphing and metastasizing, spreading like a cancer in an arc of jihadism from the deserts of Northern Mali through Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
How to Lose the Robotics RevolutionThe U.S. military is at the leading edge of the robotics revolution, with some of the most advanced systems on the globe like the autonomous X-47B carrier-based aircraft. But ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part IIn May of this year, the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons(CCW) held the first multilateral discussions on autonomous weapons or, as activists like to ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Autonomy, “Killer Robots,” and Human Control in the Use of Force – Part IIIn a recent post , I covered how autonomy is currently used in weapons and what is different about potential future autonomous weapons that would select and engage targets on ...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Transcript: Eighth Annual Conference: Robotics on the Battlefield: The Coming Swarm20YY Warfare Initiative Project Director Paul Scharre delivers a presentation on autonomous technologies and unmanned systems at CNAS' Eighth Annual National Security Conferen...
By Paul Scharre
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Video: Eighth Annual Conference: Robotics on the Battlefield: The Coming SwarmBy Paul Scharre
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program / Technology & National Security
Reflections on the Chatham House Autonomy ConferenceChatham House recently held a conference on autonomous military technologies, the focus of which was really the current debate regarding autonomous weapon systems. Kudos to Ch...
By Paul Scharre