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Climate promises will crash into regulatory bureaucracy
In The News
Before he became president-elect, Joe Biden said a top priority for his administration would be to reengage in efforts at home and abroad to address climate change, including ...
By Robert O. Work
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Biden could take swift action on transgender ban, nuclear weapons
In The News
President-elect Joe Biden could get some quick wins by using executive orders to roll back several of President Donald Trump’s Pentagon policies. For example, very little will...
By Robert O. Work
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‘How Much and How Fast’: Biden Watchers Anticipate Defense Spending Crunch
In The News
Defense spending is likely to decline or at least flat-line in the coming years, regardless of who wins November’s presidential election. The pressures on the economy from the...
By Susanna V. Blume, Robert O. Work & Robert F. Hale
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JAIC readies ‘AI champions’ as commission recommends doubling R&D spending
In The News
For the United States to stay on top of the global arms race for artificial intelligence, a commission stood up by Congress recommended a two-fold path: Collaborate with its c...
By Robert O. Work
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The U.S.-China trade war is cooling off. But the tech war is heating up.
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President Trump this week seemed to be nearing a preliminary truce in his trade war with China. But the deeper danger that still lies ahead is a Sino-U.S. technology war, as t...
By Robert O. Work
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Coming Soon to the Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill
Wallops Island — a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed national refuge for horses — is mostly known as a launch site for government a...
By Robert O. Work
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The New Concept Everyone in Washington Is Talking About
Grand narratives about global affairs have a way of seizing Washington, D.C., with sudden force. Not long after World War II, the U.S. government settled on the mission of con...
By Robert O. Work
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U.S. military risks falling victim to China’s effort to gain technology edge, report warns
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The U.S. military may be close to falling victim to a “deliberate, patient and robustly resourced” Chinese strategy to blunt the technological advantages of the American armed...
By Robert O. Work & Greg Grant
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AI pilots ‘deceptively easy’ to start, but ‘fiendishly hard’ to scale up
The Office of Management and Budget, as well as current and former Defense Department leadership, have acknowledged that improving data management, enhancing agency IT archite...
By Robert O. Work
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Should We Ban ‘Killer Robots’? Can We?
In The News
We now live in a world where a Campaign To Stop Killer Robots is a deadly serious thing, officially endorsed by 26 national governments. (28, if you count Palestine and the Va...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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US ‘Gets Its Ass Handed To It’ In Wargames: Here’s A $24 Billion Fix
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The US keeps losing, hard, in simulated wars with Russia and China. Bases burn. Warships sink. But we could fix the problem for about $24 billion a year, one well-connected ex...
By Robert O. Work
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China’s Competitive Strategy: An Interview with Robert O. Work
In The News
This interview is an outgrowth from Secretary Work’s 2018 Center for a New American Security annual conference presentation detailing the five-step Chinese competitive strateg...
By Robert O. Work
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Artificial Intelligence: Will Special Operators Lead The Way?
In The News
The Pentagon’s new artificial intelligence strategy shows how the military is shifting from old-school heavy-metal hardware – tanks, ships, planes – to a world where software ...
By Robert O. Work, Wendy R. Anderson & Kara Frederick
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Is Trump really going to cut the defense budget?
For military planners, the biggest question heading into 2019 is whether the president’s proposed $700 billion defense budget plan is a negotiating ploy or a sincere target. D...
By Robert O. Work
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To understand autonomous weapons, think about electronic warfare
Remotely piloted vehicles are an anomaly of open skies. For as much as the wars of the United States have been defined by drones and drone strikes, those missions are only pos...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
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It’s a freezing, snowy day on the border between Estonia and Russia. Soldiers from the two nations are on routine border patrol, each side accompanied by an autonomous weapon ...
By Robert O. Work & Paul Scharre
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China's application of AI should be a Sputnik moment for the U.S. But will it be?
A conference here to gather American business and military experts to discuss the coming revolution in artificial intelligence was a good Election Day measure of the challenge...
By Paul Scharre & Robert O. Work
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Pentagon Doesn’t Want Real Artificial Intelligence In War, Former Official Says
The term “artificial intelligence” gets thrown around a lot today, especially in government circles, where leaders are eager to get ahead of the technological curve. But the m...
By Robert O. Work
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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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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
