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How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine
The appeal of FPV drones is that they offer cheap, accurate firepower. Unguided artillery shells cost anywhere between $800 and $9,000. A GPS-guided shell is closer to $100,00...
By Franz-Stefan Gady & Samuel Bendett
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What Is VALK-1? 'Powerful' Ukrainian Drone Fighting Russia in Donetsk
The drones are described as "all-weather," something which is a "key development," according to Samuel Bendett of the U.S. think tank the Center for Naval Analyses. They can "...
By Samuel Bendett
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US deems more Chinese tech companies ‘military’ and a national security risk
According to Bill Drexel of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank, the updated list “stands as a reminder that the Sino-American economic relat...
By Bill Drexel
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Ukraine Deploying Machine-Gun Mounted Robots to Attack Putin's Troops
Both Russia and Ukraine are developing UGVs intended to "replace human soldiers in the most dangerous and casualty-intensive storming raids," said Samuel Bendett, of the Cente...
By Samuel Bendett
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Etching AI Controls Into Silicon Could Keep Doomsday at Bay
CNAS says licenses could be issued by a government or international regulator and refreshed periodically, making it possible to cut off access to AI training by refusing a new...
By Tim Fist
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New CNAS Report Creates Framework for “On-Chip Governance” for AI
Washington, January 8, 2024—Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), in collaboration with the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, released a new report, Secure...
By Onni Aarne, Tim Fist & Caleb Withers
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Noteworthy: House Select Committee on CCP Report on Economic Competition
Key Findings and Recommendations Pillar I: Reset the Terms of Our Economic Relationship With the People’s Republic of China For decades, the PRC has failed to live up to its W...
By Emily Kilcrease, Vivek Chilukuri, Andrew Metrick, Tim Fist & Caleb Withers
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The world is watching the war in Ukraine through drones, and it twists the view of who is winning this fight
So it goes in the ongoing drone war — no soldier or vehicle is safe from these weapons. And nearly two years after Russia's full-scale invasion, the world is, more often than ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The Year Policymakers Woke Up to AI
Although the early focus on AI competition was on the industry itself, the conversation quickly expanded to how the transformative technology will impact geopolitics, which co...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon cloud tie-up with Silicon Valley off to a slow start
The Pentagon has struggled for years to make the jump to cloud computing, now the preference of most American businesses. It’s still struggling amid concerns that the cloud is...
By Paul Scharre
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US-China military dialogue resumes for first time in over a year as top American officer talks with counterpart
“Even if these talks mean that military dialogues are no longer frozen, they are likely still icy, exhibited in the time it took for talks to resume,” Bill Drexel of the Centr...
By Bill Drexel
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Lawmakers hear support for expanding authority to control China’s access to AI tech through the cloud
Tim Fist, a fellow with the technology and national security program at the Center for New American Security, told Inside AI Policy know-your-customer style requirements laid ...
By Tim Fist
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CNAS Launches New Effort on Indo-Pacific Cybersecurity with Ambassador Nathaniel C. Fick
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Russian Volunteer Group Claims To Make 1,000 FPV Kamikaze Drones A Day
“It looks like the MoD is partnering up with some of the largest efforts like Sudoplatov and Project Archangel,” Samuel Bendett, an advisor to the CNA, CNAS and CSIS and an ex...
By Samuel Bendett
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Pentagon plans a drone army to counter China’s market dominance
The Pentagon is aiming to produce “thousands” of drones through Replicator as early as the end of next year. Paul Scharre, executive vice president at the Center for a New Ame...
By Paul Scharre
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Anduril’s New Drone Killer Is Locked on to AI-Powered Warfare
Samuel Bendett, an expert on the military use of drones at the Center for New American Security, a think tank, says Roadrunner could be used in Ukraine to intercept Iranian-ma...
By Samuel Bendett
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CNAS Launches AI Governance Forum
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U.S. Troops Still Train on Weapons With Known Risk of Brain Injury
Despite the order, though, things have hardly changed on the ground. Training continues largely as it did before. Troops say they see little being done to limit or track blast...
By Paul Scharre
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From Land Mines to Drones, Tech Has Driven Fears About Autonomous Arms
The next step in the progression toward more sophisticated autonomous weapons came in the form of “fire and forget” homing munitions like the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air...
By Paul Scharre
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New semiconductor factories are rising in US, but billions in Chips Act money has yet to flow
On August 9, 2022, surrounded by a cheerful crowd of tech executives, union presidents and political leaders from both sides of the aisle, US President Joe Biden signed the Ch...
By Bill Drexel