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Bolton readies Moscow visit amid U.S. concerns about missile treaty
In The News
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, will visit Moscow next week for talks that may include telling Russian officials that the United States plans ...
By Eric Sayers
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Trump to nominate former Air Force general as top Asia diplomat
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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to nominate former Air Force General David Stilwell to be the State Department’s top diplomat for East Asia, a post that has remained unfille...
By Eric Sayers
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Pentagon looks to thwart Russian tech attacks in Syria
The Pentagon’s in-house tech incubator is trying to stop Russia from scrambling US battlefield signals in Syria, federal contract documents show. The Defense Advanced Research...
By Adam Routh
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Inflection point: Army wrestles to strike balance between current and future capability
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The Army is at an inflection point. It’s a statement its top leaders have acknowledged countless times in recent months as they have made the case to begin major investment in...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Google announces withdrawal from DoD’s JEDI cloud contract
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Google has pulled out of the competitive Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract. A spokesperson for the tech giant said that they couldn’t be sure that JEDI wo...
By Robert O. Work
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CNAS Defense Program Welcomes Greg Grant as Adjunct Senior Fellow
Press Release
Washington, October 2 -- The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that Greg Grant has joined the Center as an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Defense program...
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Anthony DeMartino and Eric Sayers Join CNAS as Adjunct Senior Fellows
Press Release
Washington, September 6, 2018 - The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that Anthony DeMartino, Founding Partner at Pallas Advisors, and Eric Sayers, Vic...
By Shawn Turner
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Why does the Pentagon keep getting surprised by Trump?
For much of his presidency, Donald Trump has backed the military, promising to support them as much as possible. But over the past two weeks, it seems that his administration ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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CNAS Welcomes Elbridge Colby as Director of the Defense Program
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Washington, D.C. June 20, 2018 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce today that Elbridge (Bridge) Colby will join CNAS as the new Director of ...
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Artificial intelligence debate flares at Google
Google’s decision not to renew a controversial artificial intelligence (AI) contract with the Pentagon has reignited a debate about what Silicon Valley’s role should be with r...
By Robert O. Work
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Why A ‘Human In The Loop’ Can’t Control AI: Richard Danzig
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CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN SECURITY: How do you stop a Terminator scenariobefore it starts? Real US robots won’t take over like the fictional SkyNet, Pentagon officials promise...
By Robert O. Work
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Google to drop Pentagon AI contract after employee objections to the ‘business of war’
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Google will not seek to extend its contract next year with the Defense Department for artificial intelligence used to analyze drone video, squashing a controversial alliance t...
By Robert O. Work
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The U.S. Navy Is Developing Mothership Drones for Coastal Defense
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The U.S. Navy and researchers from Florida Atlantic University are developing robotic boats that can launch aerial and sub drones to protect U.S. coastal waters. “Our focus wi...
By Robert O. Work
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Army 'Leans In' To Protect A Shooter's Brain From Blast Injury
For the first time, the U.S. military is speaking publicly about what it's doing to address potential health risks to troops who operate certain powerful shoulder-mounted weap...
By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre
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Will our next war be fought among the stars?
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Sitting at the controls of a Boeing space-flight simulator, “docking” the company’s planned “Starliner” craft with an imaginary space station, you begin to understand why the ...
By Robert O. Work
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In The News
Defense / Technology & National Security
Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Work With the PentagonIs Silicon Valley going to war? In 2013, Amazon beat IBM for a contract to host the United States intelligence community’s data cloud. Microsoft now markets Azure Government S...
By Robert O. Work & Elsa B. Kania
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Tensions Are Flaring between Washington and Moscow
President Donald Trump is taunting Russia as he makes clear that he has decided to strike the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in retaliation for an alleged chemical ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Trump's space push needs cash to soar
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President Donald Trump has set ambitious goals for a revived American space program, but he'll need to follow through with dollars and hard decisions to make them reality. Sen...
By Adam Routh
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Navy’s top officer lays out aggressive new cruiser replacement strategy
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WASHINGTON – Buoyed by rapid progress on the next-generation frigate, the U.S. Navy’s top officer is ready to quickly move out on the long-debated replacement for the Navy’s a...
By Jerry Hendrix
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With all focus for the surface fleet on readiness, what gets sidelined?
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. surface fleet is setting its sights on restoring readiness, an effort led by a new boss who is laser-focused on a force that was twice battered in 2017 b...
By Jerry Hendrix
