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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Biden’s biggest clean-energy partner: China“Ultimately, bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. would require a rethink of economic policy,” said Martijn Rasser, a senior fellow at the bipartisan Center for a New Ameri...
By Martijn Rasser
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A Scientist Is Arrested, and Academics Push BackIt was Donald J. Trump’s last full week in office, so Andrew E. Lelling, the federal prosecutor in Boston, knew he had limited time left in his job. But there was one more imp...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Russia Enters Military Drone Export Market With Sale To MyanmarRussian news media are reporting a deal to supply Orlan-10E drones to Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The transaction with a military widely condemned for its actions agains...
By Samuel Bendett
