Reports

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• Reports
  • September 26, 2018
  The Soldier’s Heavy Load

  Body armor saves lives. Modern body armor has given U.S. troops an unparalleled advantage on the battlefield, improving survivability and reducing casualties. This protection ...

  By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre

• Reports
  • September 12, 2018
  Quantum Hegemony?

  China is positioning itself as a powerhouse in quantum science. Within the past several years, Chinese researchers have achieved a track record of consistent advances in basic...

  By Elsa B. Kania & John Costello

• Reports
  • July 31, 2018
  Behind The Magical Thinking

  Executive Summary Drones’ greatest attraction for the national security world is that they create options where there were none – or none at a cost policymakers feel comfortab...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman

• Reports
  • July 25, 2018
  Strategic Competition in an Era of Artificial Intelligence

  This report is part of the Center for a New American Security’s series on Artificial Intelligence and International Security...

  By Michael Horowitz, Elsa B. Kania, Gregory C. Allen & Paul Scharre

• Reports
  • July 23, 2018
  Weird Birds: Working Paper on Policymaker Perspectives on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Their Impact on National Security Decision-Making

  1.INTRODUCTION No movie about a national security crisis would be complete without a darkened room displaying a blinking screen of real-time military assets as angry advisors ...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman

• Reports
  • July 10, 2018
  Artificial Intelligence and International Security

  This report is part of the Center for a New American Security’s series on Artificial Intelligence and International Security....

  By Michael Horowitz, Paul Scharre, Gregory C. Allen, Kara Frederick, Anthony Cho & Edoardo Saravalle

• Reports
  • June 19, 2018
  Artificial Intelligence

  Preface by Robert O. Work We are in the midst of an ever accelerating and expanding global revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, with enormous impli...

  By Paul Scharre & Michael Horowitz

• Reports
  • May 30, 2018
  Technology Roulette

  Executive Summary This report recognizes the imperatives that inspire the U.S. military’s pursuit of technological superiority over all potential adversaries. These pages emph...

  By Richard Danzig

• Reports
  • April 29, 2018
  Protecting Warfighters from Blast Injury

  Executive Summary Key Findings Hundreds of thousands of servicemembers suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), including from exposure to blasts from improvised ex...

  By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre

• Reports
  • April 23, 2018
  Soldier Protection Today

  Introduction The Super Soldiers series examines opportunities to improve dismounted soldier survivability in the near-, mid-, and far-term through changes to policies, improve...

  By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre

• Reports
  • April 16, 2018
  A Strategy for Enhancing Warfighter Survivability

  Introduction Survivability is an essential component of military effectiveness. Militaries have long invested in protection, such as helmets and armor, to improve the survivab...

  By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish

• Reports
  • November 28, 2017
  Battlefield Singularity

  Although technological advantage has been a key pillar of U.S. military power and national competitiveness, China is starting to catch up in its quest to become a “science and...

  By Elsa B. Kania

• Reports
  • June 13, 2017
  Drone Proliferation

  Executive Summary The U.S. monopoly on drones has ended. More than 30 nations already have or are developing armed drones, and at least 90 nations, as well as some non-state a...

  By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Lauren Fish, Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre

• Reports
  • March 7, 2017
  Drone Proliferation and the Use of Force

  As more countries acquire drones, will their widespread availability lead to greater military adventurism and conflict? Will countries be more willing to put a drone in harm’s...

  By Michael Horowitz, Paul Scharre & Ben FitzGerald

• Reports
  • February 21, 2017
  Seizing the Initiative

  The Department of Defense (DoD) is primed for change – in theory. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017 mandates major organizational reforms with...

  By Ben FitzGerald & Alexandra Sander

• Reports
  • January 25, 2017
  Patriot Wars

  Preface by Paul Scharre Automation and autonomy are core components of the Department of Defense’s “third offset strategy,” designed to reinvigorate American military technolo...

  By Dr. John K. Hawley

• Reports
  • December 12, 2016
  Surveillance Policy

  Today, the United States faces a more diverse, more complex array of national security threats than ever before. With ever more human activity taking place on electronic netwo...

  By Adam Klein, Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine

• Reports
  • September 20, 2016
  U.S. Public Support for Drone Strikes

  Over the past fifteen years, the United States has increasingly used drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as tools of foreign policy. Since the Bureau of Investigative ...

  By Jacquelyn Schneider & Julia Macdonald

• Reports
  • August 29, 2016
  Digitally-Enabled Warfare

  Over the last 20 years, digital technologies have revolutionized modern warfare. From network-centric warfare of the 1990s to Donald Rumsfeld’s transformation to today’s Third...

  By Jacquelyn Schneider

• Reports
  • May 16, 2016
  Global Perspectives: A Drone Saturated Future

  Drones are rapidly proliferating. Over 90 countries and non-state groups operate drones today, and even more are certain to do so in coming years.1 These actors are beginning ...

  By Kelley Sayler, Ben FitzGerald, Michael Horowitz & Paul Scharre