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Technology & National Security
Huawei Latest Target of US Crackdown on China TechSince taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden has taken an even more aggressive stance than his predecessor, Donald Trump. Now the Biden administration appears to be headin...
By Sam Howell
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Defense / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defense industry“The Ukraine conflict has been an important wake-up call for decision makers at the Pentagon,” says Martijn Rasser, director of technology and national security at the Center ...
By Martijn Rasser & Stacie Pettyjohn
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Technology & National Security
Russia Says It Will Fast-Track Testing of Tank-Killing Robot in UkraineCurrently, there are just five Markers in existence, and according to Rogozin, four of them are being sent to the Donbas region of Ukraine. “What’s interesting is that Marker...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Washington Halts Licenses for U.S. Companies to Export to HuaweiMartijn Rasser, a technology expert at CNAS, a think-tank, said the latest action was a “really significant move”. “The actions by the commerce department are partly driven by...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
Mass-Market Military Drones Have Changed the Way Wars Are FoughtBy 2016, ISIS had modified DJI Phantom quadcopters to drop grenades. These weapons joined the arsenal of scratch-built ISIS drones, using parts that investigators with Conflic...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Is a Real and Dangerous Possibility That Could Wreck Armies and Ruin the Global Economy Worse than the 1929 Stock Market CrashWhile US businesses can take some steps to reduce their reliance on Taiwan chipmaking, including bolstering their chip inventories and diversifying their supply chains, this i...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
Generative AI Like Viral ChatGPT Lands on DISA Technology Watch ListChatGPT, applauded by some for its potential to augment worker productivity and spurned by others over questions of bias and ethics, surpassed 1 million registered users withi...
By Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
The Pentagon Is Getting More Serious about AIIt’s unclear how much the Switchblades have been used in the conflict, but their presence underscore how the age of autonomous warfare has arrived, despite much of the debate ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Overmatch Secrecy Needed as China, Russia Surveil US Navy, Experts SayProject Overmatch is the Navy’s contribution to Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2, the Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar push to connect disparate databases and forc...
By Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
Batteries Are the BattlefieldIt’s not just in battery supply chains where China plays a commanding role either. Across a spate of clean energy technologies—including wind power and solar panels—Beijing’s ...
By Sam Howell
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Technology & National Security
China surpassing US in key innovation metric and evolving from ‘imitator’, Washington report saysAnother challenge involving China, analysts said, is that its politics often drive tech policy, and Beijing can be adept at hiding weaknesses and avoiding transparency. This m...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Technology & National Security
China Is the World’s Biggest Face Recognition DealerIn recent years US lawmakers and presidents have expressed concern that China is gaining an edge over the US in AI technology. The report seems to offer hard evidence of one a...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Technology & National Security
Bargain Basement Bombers: Ukraine’s Homemade Drones Hit Russian ForcesSamuel Bendett, an expert Russian drones and adviser to both the CNA and CNAS, told me that in addition to flying commercial quadcopters, both sides are building drones. “Russ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Marines Outwitted an AI Security Camera by Hiding in a Cardboard Box and Pretending to Be TreesIn Paul Scharre’s new book Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Scharre recounts the story of one AI experiment that was disrupted by a squad of Ma...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
More Public Universities in the U.S. Block TikTokAnalysts said the bans have their merits despite these workarounds. Ms. Hannah Kelley, a technology and national security research assistant at the Centre for a New American S...
By Hannah Kelley
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Technology & National Security
Ukraine Zeroes In on Western Tanks in Bid to Rout RussiaValerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, told The Economist last month that Kyiv needs 300 tanks to achieve a decisive victory on the battlefield again...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Technology & National Security
All-Out Drone War in Ukraine Points to FutureBut the degree to which they are being used by both sides in Ukraine -- and the benefits they bring, as well as the threats they pose -- highlights the importance for militari...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
The Semiconductor MadmanForeign firms are forecast to supply over half of China’s chip consumption until at least 2026, according to IC Insights, a U.S. semiconductor research group. This is, of cour...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
The Dutch Get Ensnared in US-China Chips FightIn early October, the U.S. issued a new series of export restrictions targeting China's ability to manufacture advanced semiconductors and supercomputers — with the claim that...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
China Launches WTO Dispute over US Chip Export ControlsChina's initiation of a WTO dispute over the export controls did not surprise Martijn Rasser, director of the technology and national security program at the Washington-based ...
By Martijn Rasser