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For U.S. Military Drones, Airspace Is Growing More Congested, Dangerous
In The News
Unmanned U.S. surveillance aircraft, with their suites of advanced technology, are the high-price product of years of domestic drone development during an era of nearly uncont...
By Paul Scharre
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The rare earths brawl
In The News
In 2010, China and Japan got into a mighty fishing kerfuffle, and Beijing responded by halting exports of rare earth minerals, elements crucial to a slew of military and comme...
By Martijn Rasser
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How the Pentagon Nickel-and-Dimed Its Way Into Losing a Drone
In The News
Wednesday’s downing of a U.S. drone by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard exposes a weakness in U.S. operations. The United States has some of the world’s most sophisticated drones fo...
By Paul Scharre
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The U.S. Goes On the Cyber Offensive
After years of bitter complaints about cyberattacks from foreign adversaries, a new report describes aggressive U.S. cyber plans and intrusions of its own against Russia, a sh...
By Richard Fontaine
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The UTC-Raytheon deal highlights the changing nature of war
In The News
With a deep voice and physique of a former American-football player, Greg Hayes, boss of United Technologies Corp (utc), does not seem like the soft sort. But the ego is delic...
By Kara Frederick
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Robotic fighter jets could soon join military pilots on combat missions. Here's why.
In The News
Military pilots may soon have a new kind of wingman to depend upon: not flesh-and-blood pilots but fast-flying, sensor-studded aerial drones that fly into combat to scout enem...
By Paul Scharre
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Executive Order Highlights Electromagnetic Pulse Threat
In March, President Donald Trump signed an “Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses,” which many observers see as an important step in co...
By Paul Scharre
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The Race to Save Encryption
In The News
National-security experts and politicians have a message for America: A significant portion of the sensitive data we have today is going to be cracked by foreign powers in the...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Trump Vs. Huawei: The World Is Watching
In The News
President Trump’s new Executive Order on imported technology bares sharp teeth at Huawei and other Chinese companies, but it doesn’t have any teeth yet. The actual impact will...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Existing US Huawei gear has risks, but forcing removal may not be a priority
In The News
In the wake of recent U.S. government actions to prevent future use of telecommunications equipment from certain international sources, security experts said risks remain for ...
By Peter Harrell
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping the Workforce
In The News
Walmart last month announced that shoppers soon might see a lot more robots in its stores -- but the company wasn't referring to toy robots or even human assistant gadgets tha...
By Megan Lamberth
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Democrats and Republicans are freaked out by Chinese 5G technology — but are they just being paranoid?
In The News
Democrats and Republicans rarely agree on anything, but this week, the parties united to condemn one common enemy: China. The views of President Trump and lawmakers on both si...
By Peter Harrell
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This Chinese facial recognition start-up can identify a person in seconds
In The News
In China, facial recognition technology — biometric computer applications that automatically identify an individual from a database of digital images — is a part of daily life...
By Kara Frederick
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Avoiding the AI weapons race
In The News
Today's great powers are sliding toward a new arms race, this time on the battleground of lethal computer code, but experts say that rushing to develop autonomous weapons — wh...
By Paul Scharre
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Report: Kill the idea of “killer robots” before they kill us
The global competition to develop fully autonomous weapons systems guided by artificial intelligence risks developing into a full-blown arms race, according to a new report fr...
By Paul Scharre
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Pentagon official: Threats to US space systems 'at an all-time high'
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A senior Pentagon official warns that the Russian and Chinese militaries are refocusing their efforts to counter U.S. space operations, posing an existential threat to America...
By Adam Routh
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Paul Scharre Wins Colby Award for Book “Army of None”
Press Release
Washington, April 23, 2019 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) congratulates Paul Scharre, Director of the CNAS Technology and National Security Program, who has w...
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Western AI researchers partnered with Chinese surveillance firms
In The News
Leading western artificial intelligence researchers have partnered with Chinese organisations tied to Beijing’s surveillance state, raising fears that a severe lack of oversig...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Air Force Chief Technology Officer Position to Oversee S&T
In The News
The Air Force plans to appoint a new chief technology officer to direct the $2.8 billion science and technology enterprise and consider which future tech areas would benefit t...
By Paul Scharre
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New U.S. Policy on Cuba Sanctions Threatens EU Ties
In The News
The Trump administration plans to intensify pressure against Cuba by allowing U.S. nationals to lodge claims against foreign companies that do business there, a senior U.S. of...
By Peter Harrell
