Reports
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Technology & National Security
Biotech Matters: Automated Scientists Will Power Tomorrow’s BioeconomyTwenty years ago, it was barely plausible that soon every person on Earth would have a supercomputer in their pocket with ready access to the world’s information. Even though ...
By Dr. David A. Markowitz
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Technology & National Security
Biotech MattersOperation Warp Speed showed the power of the U.S. government to direct national biotech capabilities around a shared goal—in this case, a novel vaccine. But there are many oth...
By Hannah Kelley
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Defense / Technology & National Security
“DIU 3.0”Rapid technological change touches virtually every aspect of life today. This includes defense and national security, and for good reason: To maintain the world’s strongest mi...
By Douglas A. Beck
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Technology & National Security
Secure, Governable ChipsBroadly capable AI systems, built and deployed using specialized chips, are becoming an engine of economic growth and scientific progress. At the same time, these systems also...
By Onni Aarne, Tim Fist & Caleb Withers
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Technology & National Security
Preventing AI Chip Smuggling to ChinaChina cannot legally import the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips or the tooling to produce them. The large and growing computational requirements of the most p...
By Tim Fist & Erich Grunewald
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Technology & National Security
Technology Competition: A Battle for BrainsEmerging technologies—including artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science and technology (QIST), and biotechnology—will transform people’s lives and work world...
By Sam Howell
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Technology & National Security
Data PrivacyProtecting consumer data privacy is at the center of many of Washington’s technology-related debates. Apps such as TikTok, for example, raise fears about how foreign adversari...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Technology & National Security
Dual-Use Technology and U.S. Export ControlsTechnology is a key enabler of political, military, and economic power. As technical competence grows more diffused, middle powers such as India and Brazil are emerging as tec...
By Hannah Kelley
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Technology & National Security
Digital Decentralization and Its Effects on DemocracyAccording to blockchain technologists, web decentralization would fundamentally alter business, societies, and the balance of digital power by reorganizing the internet, using...
By Sam Howell
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Technology & National Security
Artificial Intelligence and Arms ControlAdvances in artificial intelligence (AI) pose immense opportunity for militaries around the world. With this rising potential for AI-enabled military systems, some activists a...
By Paul Scharre & Megan Lamberth
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Rewire: Semiconductors and U.S. Industrial PolicyAs the United States considers industrial policy for the first time in decades, it should learn lessons from prior government efforts to shape the semiconductor industry, in t...
By Chris Miller
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Lighting the PathThe world’s leading powers are engaged in an unprecedented technology competition. Autocratic regimes are advancing a vision for technology use—a techno-totalitarianism that e...
By Carisa Nietsche, Emily Jin, Hannah Kelley, Emily Kilcrease, Megan Lamberth, Martijn Rasser & Alexandra Seymour
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Technology & National Security
Regenerate: Biotechnology and U.S. Industrial PolicyA revolution in biotechnology is dawning at the precise moment the world needs it most. Amid an ongoing climate crisis, fast-paced technological maturation, and a global pande...
By Ryan Fedasiuk
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Technology & National Security
Reboot: Framework for a New American Industrial PolicyThe relationship between American industry and the U.S. government must change. The nature of the U.S.-China strategic competition, one centered on technology, requires a rese...
By Martijn Rasser, Megan Lamberth, Hannah Kelley & Ryan Johnson
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Technology & National Security
The Tangled Web We WoveThe pendulum of globalization has swung too far. What the fallout of the ongoing pandemic makes clear is that decades of offshoring and cost-cutting in the pursuit of efficien...
By Megan Lamberth, Martijn Rasser, Ryan Johnson & Henry Wu
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Aligning U.S.-Israeli Cooperation on Technology Issues and ChinaThe United States and Israel have a long history of working together as close allies. Theirs is a relationship based on common values and security interests. In recent years, ...
By Jonathan Schanzer, Shira Efron, Martijn Rasser & Alice Hickson
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Defense / Technology & National Security
When the Chips Are DownThe United States is in a strategic competition with a well-resourced and capable opponent. China seeks a global role that is broadly at odds with the strategic interests and ...
By Becca Wasser, Martijn Rasser & Hannah Kelley
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Technology & National Security
Edge Networks, Core PolicyTechnological leadership by the United States requires forethought and organization. The plan necessary to maintain that leadership—a national technology strategy—should be br...
By Martijn Rasser, Ainikki Riikonen & Henry Wu
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
The Future of the Digital OrderNations that successfully harness the vast economic, political, and societal power of emerging information and communications technologies will shape the future of the global ...
By Jeff Cirillo, Lisa Curtis, Joshua Fitt, Kara Frederick, Coby Goldberg, Ilan Goldenberg, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Megan Lamberth, Martijn Rasser & Dania Torres
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Technology & National Security
From Plan to ActionIdeas abound for actions the United States should take to better position itself for the unfolding global technology competition. Concerning topics as diverse as raw materials...
By John Costello, Martijn Rasser & Megan Lamberth