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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
In The News
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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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
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Panel: China Making Aggressive Moves in the Arctic
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As China expands its influence, Beijing believes it can claim access to any region on earth – including the Arctic, three experts on maritime security said Friday. Beijing is ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Military budget in massive spending bill would usher in pay raises, new ships and planes
WASHINGTON – With a partial government shutdown looming, lawmakers on Capitol Hill were racing against the clock Thursday to approve a massive spending bill for fiscal year 20...
By Lauren Fish
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Is Boeing working on a second MQ-25 drone prototype?
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ST. LOUIS — Boeing is confident it can win the Navy’s MQ-25 carrier-based tanker drone competition. In fact, it’s so bullish that it may already be on a path to building a sec...
By Jerry Hendrix
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How much longer will US and partner forces ‘own the night’ in combat?
Filmed through the tinted green of night vision goggles, a February video by the Taliban depicts their assault on an Afghan security forces outpost in Kandahar province. After...
By Adam Routh
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Is the top general in Afghanistan in too deep?
For Army Gen. John "Mick" Nicholson, the war in Afghanistan is deeply personal. The top commander in charge of President Donald Trump's revamped strategy to “fight to win” has...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Nuclear policy of the Russian Federation
Russia published its most recent military doctrine in 2014. Although it discusses nuclear weapons and use, it is not meant to be the last word on Russian nuclear policy. What ...
By Alexander Velez-Green
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The US is Accelerating Development of Its Own ‘Invincible’ Hypersonic Weaponsw
Last spring, representatives from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, came to the office of then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work and laid out some ha...
By Robert O. Work
