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Future Tank: Beyond The M1 AbramsWhat comes after the M1 Abrams, the Army’s massive Reagan-era main battle tank? “Everything is on the table at this point,” the service’s armor modernization director, Maj. Ge...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Russian fighter pilots could soon fly alongside bomb-filled combat dronesIf Russia decides to send planes into combat by the end of this decade, human pilots in those aircraft will still pick targets, but it will be drone escorts that actually drop...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Biden’s $180 Billion R&D Plan Prioritizes Key Areas Such As Chips, Quantum ComputingAs part of his recently unveiled $2 trillion infrastructure investment plan, President Joe Biden said his administration would commit $180 billion to “R&D and industries o...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Biden’s infrastructure plan includes billions to develop emerging tech the military needsPresident Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan released Wednesday calls for $180 billion in new research and development spending on emerging technologies expected to define the co...
By Megan Lamberth & Tony Samp
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Technology & National Security
Combat Drones Made in China Are Coming to a Conflict Near YouA dozen years into its fight with the Islamic insurgent group Boko Haram, Nigeria is getting some new weapons: a pair of Wing Loong II drones from China. The deal is one of a ...
By Michael Horowitz
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Technology & National Security
China's on a mission to dominate space internetChina is ramping up plans for government-sponsored satellites to beam internet from space, taking on U.S. rivals like SpaceX and Amazon in the race to own the next frontier of...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
What China's five-year plan could mean for venture capital's tech sectorsChina recently unveiled its strategic economic vision for the next five years in a lengthy plan that could help shape the direction of high-tech industries laden with venture ...
By Jordan Schneider
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Technology & National Security
New tech poised to neutralize Washington’s Huawei problemOnce dismissed as “pie in the sky” by top officials, Open Radio Access Networks are suddenly poised to upend China’s dominance in the global telecom marketplace. And as Washin...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
Army Trains AI to Identify Faces in the DarkFacial recognition has already come a long way since U.S. Special Operations Forces used the technology to help identify Osama bin Laden after killing the Al-Qaeda leader in h...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
Huawei’s Highway to Success Goes Through RussiaThe year 2020 was a difficult one for Huawei. In August, the Trump administration imposed new restrictions aimed at depriving Huawei access to computer chips made with U.S. te...
By Samuel Bendett
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
CNAS Responds: Assessing Biden's Interim National Security StrategyRichard Fontaine, Chief Executive Officer: "National Security Strategies do more signaling than strategizing. They resemble not true strategies so much as really long speeches...
By Richard Fontaine, Lisa Curtis, Chris Dougherty, Martijn Rasser, Dr. Nina Kollars, Michael Kofman, Becca Wasser, Nathalie Grogan, Katie Galgano & Jennie Matuschak
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Technology & National Security
Could Your Electric Vehicle Be Sabotaged?Just as the United States and its companies are pushing to electrify transportation, the nascent industry faces a new threat: In an apparent new form of brinkmanship, leading ...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Technology & National Security
AI panel urges US to boost tech skills amid China's riseAn artificial intelligence commission led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is urging the U.S. to boost its AI skills to counter China, including by pursuing “AI-enabled” weap...
By Megan Lamberth
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Technology & National Security
U.S. Enlists Allies to Counter China’s Technology PushPresident Biden portrays U.S. relations with China as a clash of values: democracy vs. autocracy. But his rhetoric obscures the administration’s more pragmatic approach of cob...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
John Costello Joins CNAS as Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Technology and National Security ProgramWashington, February 18, 2021—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that John Costello, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Intelligence and Se...
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Technology & National Security
For US and allies, prepping for AI warfare starts with the dataThe U.S. and allies are using a new forum started by the Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence office to work toward developing AI systems that can connect in the future to h...
By Megan Lamberth
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Technology & National Security
Biden backs off on TikTok ban in review of Trump China movesThe Biden administration is backing off former President Donald Trump’s attempts to ban the popular video app TikTok, asking a court to postpone a legal dispute over the propo...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security
The myth and reality of the super soldierIs China trying to make its own version of Captain America? US intelligence has suggested so. But beyond the hype, the possibility of a super soldier is not so outlandish and ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Exclusive: China gene firm providing worldwide COVID tests worked with Chinese militaryBGI Group, the world’s largest genomics company, has worked with China’s military on research that ranges from mass testing for respiratory pathogens to brain science, a Reute...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS Responds: Week One of the Biden PresidencyA week in, the Biden administration has made a series of moves across national security policy. In the advisory below, CNAS experts unpack key developments and possible outcom...
By Richard Fontaine, Carrie Cordero, Chris Dougherty, Jason Bartlett, Nathalie Grogan, Megan Lamberth, Emma Moore, Carisa Nietsche, Ainikki Riikonen & Rachel Ziemba