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Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and GoogleIt is the size of a small suitcase and can be placed discreetly in the back of a car. When the device is powered up, it begins secretly monitoring hundreds of cellphones in th...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Defense / Technology & National Security
For U.S. Military Drones, Airspace Is Growing More Congested, DangerousUnmanned 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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Technology & National Security
The rare earths brawlIn 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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Defense / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
How the Pentagon Nickel-and-Dimed Its Way Into Losing a DroneWednesday’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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Technology & National Security
The U.S. Goes On the Cyber OffensiveAfter 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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Technology & National Security
The UTC-Raytheon deal highlights the changing nature of warWith 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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Technology & National Security
Robotic fighter jets could soon join military pilots on combat missions. Here's why.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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Technology & National Security
Executive Order Highlights Electromagnetic Pulse ThreatIn 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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Technology & National Security
The Race to Save EncryptionNational-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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Technology & National Security
How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping the WorkforceWalmart 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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Technology & National Security
Existing US Huawei gear has risks, but forcing removal may not be a priorityIn 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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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Trump Vs. Huawei: The World Is WatchingPresident 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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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Democrats and Republicans are freaked out by Chinese 5G technology — but are they just being paranoid?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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Technology & National Security
This Chinese facial recognition start-up can identify a person in secondsIn 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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Technology & National Security
Avoiding the AI weapons raceToday'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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Technology & National Security
Report: Kill the idea of “killer robots” before they kill usThe 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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Defense / Technology & National Security
Pentagon official: Threats to US space systems 'at an all-time high'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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Press Release
Technology & National Security
Paul Scharre Wins Colby Award for Book “Army of None”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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Technology & National Security
Western AI researchers partnered with Chinese surveillance firmsLeading 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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In The News
Technology & National Security
Air Force Chief Technology Officer Position to Oversee S&TThe 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
