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Technology & National Security
Cyber Command chief tells Congress chip shortage has national security implicationsChina’s increasing progress toward producing enough semiconductor chips domestically to avoid relying on foreign trade is a “very timely question” and one of “great concern fo...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
The Tangled Web We Wove Rebalancing America's Supply ChainsWashington, March 10, 2022—The pendulum of globalization has swung too far. What the fallout of the ongoing pandemic makes clear is that decades of offshoring and cost-cutting...
By Megan Lamberth, Ryan Johnson, Martijn Rasser & Henry Wu
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Technology & National Security
Online Sleuths Are Using Face Recognition to ID Russian SoldiersChechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted a short video on Telegram, in which a cheery bearded soldier stood before a line of tanks clanking down a road under an overcast sky. I...
By Ryan Fedasiuk
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Technology & National Security
Russia’s AI industry faces collapseRussian President Vladimir Putin’s 2017 proclamation that whichever country leads in artificial intelligence “will be the ruler of the world” may come back to haunt him. New t...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
Russia is deploying brutal siege tactics in UkraineThe Russian assault on Ukraine is ongoing, with Russian forces moving on major population centers including Mariupol in the southeast and the capital, Kyiv. As the war moves i...
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Technology & National Security
2021 Pitch Contest Winners Building the next generation of national security thinkers and leaders: Building the next generation of national security thinkers and leadersWashington, March 3, 2022—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is proud to publish policy insights from the winners of the 2021 Pitch competition. The Pitch began in ...
By Megan Lamberth
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Technology & National Security
Russia’s Way of Conducting Urban Warfare Bodes Ill for KyivThe last time that Russian forces fought their way into Kyiv was the autumn of 1943, when the Red Army crossed the Dnieper river and seized the city from Nazi Germany. On Nove...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
West Sanctions Russia but Fears Game-Changing AttackWhen President Joe Biden stood in front of the world’s media in the East Room of the White House on Thursday (Friday AEDT), he said what every major leader had been thinking a...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
Tech on High Alert for Russia's Ukraine Disinformation OffensiveRussia's Ukraine invasion, seeded by a web of state-backed disinformation campaigns, is putting Big Tech in a bind. Why it matters: How tech firms respond to Russia's disinfor...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
CNAS Responds: Assessing the wide-reaching impacts of the Russian invasion of UkraineRichard Fontaine Chief Executive Officer: Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine will produce many casualties. Among them may be Washington’s foremost foreign policy plans. T...
By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Lisa Curtis, Paul Scharre, Edward Fishman, Emily Kilcrease, Samuel Bendett & Ryan Fedasiuk
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Technology & National Security
U.S. Risks Blowback Over Russia Chip SanctionsThe Biden administration is widely expected to impose unprecedented — and potentially devastating — technology and financial sanctions against Russia should the Kremlin move f...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
Olympians Warned to Bring Burner PhonesWhen Olympic athletes from all over the world land in Beijing for the 2022 Olympic Games, they'll be loaded up with burner phones and will likely leave their own devices behin...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
FCC Adds China Unicom to List of Chinese Telecoms Banned in U.S. on Espionage FearsThe U.S. Federal Communications Commission ejected China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd. from the U.S. market, adding to the tally of Chinese telecommunications companies sanctioned by ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Defense / Technology & National Security
CNAS strategy game examines how U.S., China respond to Taiwan semiconductor disruptionWashington, January 27— Essential to the day-to-day functioning of modern society, semiconductors are increasingly at the center of a high-stakes competition between the U.S. ...
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Defense / Technology & National Security
How the Computer Chip Shortage Could Incite a U.S. Conflict With ChinaThe war game scenario conducted by a Washington think tank began with a sudden failure at three Taiwanese semiconductor foundries that make high-end computer chips used in suc...
By Martijn Rasser & Becca Wasser
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Technology & National Security
Algorithmic Warfare: Pentagon Shakes Up AI, Digital BureaucraciesIn December, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks made waves when she issued a memo announcing the creation of a new key role that would report directly to her: the chie...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Technology & National Security
Russia’s Marker Robot is a Testbed For Its Next-Gen Military TechThis month, Russia announced that it had completed research on its experimental Marker robot combat vehicle. The machine, designed from the start as a testbed for future tools...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Is There a Path Forward in Congress for Mandatory Cyber Incident Reporting?A group of lawmakers are pushing to get cybersecurity incident reporting requirements signed into law as a top priority for Congress in 2022 after it was left out of the lates...
By Laura G. Brent
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Technology & National Security
The legacy of the Cyberspace Solarium CommissionOne of the government’s key mechanisms for pushing cybersecurity policy in recent years is shutting down. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission was charged in 2019 with sorting t...
By Laura G. Brent
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Technology & National Security
2022 Defense Authorization Bill (Once Again) Looks to Reform How DOD Buys TechThe latest military spending authorization comes with plans to increase the Pentagon’s pace and scope of technology innovation. Though generally pleased with the bill, former ...
By Megan Lamberth