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Australian Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre to host CNAS adjunct fellow Elsa Kania as a 2018 Fulbright Specialist
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The CNAS Technology and National Security Program is pleased to announce that adjunct fellow Elsa Kania has been selected by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI)...
By Paul Scharre & Elsa B. Kania
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NDAA Press Note: TBI and DoD Study on Blast Pressure Exposure
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Washington, December 12 – The new National Defense Authorization Act, recently signed into law by the president, requires the Department of Defense to conduct a medical study ...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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CNAS Press Note: Governmental Meetings on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
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Washington, November 14 – This week member states begin discussions at the United Nations on lethal autonomous weapons systems – weapons that would choose their own targets. P...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: Open Letter on Dangers of Autonomous Weapons
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As autonomous technology becomes increasingly capable, more than 100 CEOs have signed an open letter urging the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons. CNAS Senior Fe...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Comments on Autonomous Weapons
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Autonomous weapons are again under public debate after Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Paul Selva testified on the ethics of autonomous weapons. To provide fur...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: President Trump’s Defense Spending Request
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Washington, February 28 – As the Trump administration prepares to submit a defense budget request calling for a 10 percent increase in defense spending, Center for a New Ameri...
By Paul Scharre & Adam Routh
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CNAS Press Note: Army Shelves Blast Gauges to Protect Soldiers’ Brains
The U.S. Army recently shelved blast gauges that it had issued to troops in order to assess mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) from harmful blast waves. The gauges identified t...
By Phillip Carter & Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: What Does a Trump Administration Mean for Defense?
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Washington, November 17 – As the transition to the Trump administration begins and markets predict a growth in defense spending, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Defe...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: The Counter-ISIS Ministerial Meeting
As the defense and foreign ministers of 46 nations meet in Washington to discuss the counter-ISIS campaign, Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg, 20YY Future ...
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: Autonomous Weapons at the United Nations
CNAS experts Paul Scharre and Kelley Sayler have written a press note on autonomous weapons at the United Nations....
By Kelley Sayler & Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: What to Look for in the Defense Budget
With the FY 2017 Defense Budget set to drop this week and Secretary Carter having outlined budget last week, ten CNAS experts have provided insight into the key items to look ...
By Ben FitzGerald, Julianne Smith, Katherine Kidder, Kelley Sayler, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Michelle Shevin-Coetzee, Paul Scharre, Rachel Rizzo, Shawn Brimley & Jerry Hendrix
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CNAS Press Note: Autonomous Weapons Fears and the Davos World Economic Forum
Senior Fellow Paul Scharre has written a press note following the high-level discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on autonomous weapons....
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: U.S. Special Operations in Iraq
CNAS experts write a press note following Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s announcement that the United States will deploy more special operations forces to Iraq....
By Ilan Goldenberg, Nicholas Heras & Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: Human-Machine Combat Teaming
Following Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work’s speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum on human-machine collaboration, Paul Scharre, senior fellow and director of the...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: The Open Letter on the Dangers of Autonomous Weapons
On news that many high-profile scientists and academics, including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, had signed an open letter warning of the dangers of autonomous weapons, CNAS ...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: Defeat ISIS by Empowering Sunni Population
In response to vigorous debate over U.S. strategy in Iraq following ISIS’ conquest of Ramadi, 20YY Warfare Initiative Director and Senior Fellow Paul Scharre has written a new...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: Secretary of the Navy and the "Last Manned Strike Fighter"
On news that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said that the F-35 would be the Navy’s “last manned strike fighter,” Paul Scharre, Director of the Center for a New American Secur...
By Paul Scharre
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Press Note: Autonomous Weapons and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
In response to a meeting coming up over the next few days in the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons regarding lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), Fellows Michael...
By Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre
