“I don't know if it's going to be a fair fight,” said Stacie Pettyjohn, director of CNAS’s defense program and one of the authors of the report. “There are a lot of things that are stacked up against the United States when it's playing an away game."
"Our analysis of the FY22 budget and the strategy that we think the Biden administration is going in, it is trying to do too much with too little," says Becca Wasser of CNAS.
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
Rather than try to mine strategic minerals, build key technologies, and develop high-tech talent entirely on its own, the US should work together with trusted allies like Australia, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and other experts argue.
Global recession has slowed down 5G rollouts, and Chinese overreach has alienated customers, a new CNAS study says – but the US also needs a new strategy that offers an alternative to Huawei.
Congress and the White House should create a new pathway that recruits talented international students and provides them an opportunity to enter the US workforce upon graduation.
“Security will be more important than speed in establishing a durable foundation for 5G’s future,” writes leading scholar Elsa Kania – and Washington must lead the way.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
It’s not all about AI and software. You need hardware compact enough -- and secure enough -- to deploy into a war zone.
US may face destabilizing Russian interference with NTMs "while demand for strategic intelligence on Russian strategic nuclear forces from space-based NTMs goes up significantly," says Michael Gleason.
The famously hoodie-clad founder of the Defense Digital Service defends his legacy as he prepares to hand over the helm.
The Pentagon insists it doesn't want them. But could a global ban really rein in Russia or China?
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
Warships sink. Bases burn. F-35s die on the runway. Can $24 billion a year -- 3.3 % of the Pentagon budget -- fix the problem?
“The SOF guys are less risk averse than conventional ground forces, so they’re more apt to push the limit,” said Bob Work, father of the AI-driven Third Offset Strategy. “Their commanders also have embraced AI and autonomous ops.... so I think all the conditions are set for SOF to lead the way in the more direct combat applications of AI and autonomy.”
Don't think about the Terminator or Iron Man: Think about Sigourney Weaver's power loader lifting crates in Aliens.
WASHINGTON: China is besting the United States in key military technologies like hypersonic missiles and electronic warfare, Gen. Paul Selva, vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs said today. We can still catch up, he predicted. What about Artificial Intelligence? That’s too close to call, said former deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, so we’d better get a move on. Both men […]