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Connecting FAA Data to Emergency Management

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One day, when the full story is assembled of how COVID-19 spread from a localized illness to a global pandemic, we know that the plot will revolve around flight patterns.

to the country, and the data would assist them with workforce and equipment planning. Following the eruption of a volcano in Iceland that same year, there was a dangerous amount of ash in the airspace over ... suddenly occur. CNA also worked closely with the FAA when it needed several months of data for flights that came near North Korean airspace. The North Korean government had announced that due to military ... , DC: the Air Defense Identification Zone and the Flight Restricted Zone. Working closely with the FAA, CNA was tasked to make the zones large enough to give the military adequate response time

Modernizing CNA

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CNA's Business Transformation Director describes how CNA is modernizing its IT and automating business processes for greater efficiency and advanced analysis.

, a new role was created at CNA: Business Transformation Director. It’s a role I have served in for three years, after more than 20 years as an analyst helping federal, state, and military organizations ... of CNA stakeholders into the planning and rollout of initiatives, providing training and job aids, and leveraging our managers to help communicate with and coach employees. Finally, we assess

What is a Chinese Communist Party Plenum?

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Plenums of the Central Committee help assess future directions for China. The Third Plenum on economic issues is of critical interest for US national security.

of economic or reform issues covered under that five-year plan. As the Party Congress wraps up its five-year cycle, the final two plenums typically deal with ideology and planning for the next National ... that be necessary. Because of the prominent role that China now plays in US national security, promoting peacetime national security interests means more than monitoring China’s military modernization

What Hospitals Can Do to Protect Themselves from Ransomware

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Hospitals are increasingly victims of ransomware and other costly cyberattacks. They can protect themselves by preparing response plans for cyber disruptions.

support in this process. Through our experience helping cities, counties, states, and military services develop cyber incident response plans and run cyber exercises, we have developed a multi-step approach to planning for potential cyberattacks that hospitals should consider:  An examination of potential cyber threats and levels of disruption—from minor inconveniences to a complete disruption

What China's Ukraine Position Paper Tells Us

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Elizabeth Wishnick examines China’s position paper on the Russia-Ukraine war, and what it tells us about how Beijing uses diplomacy to advance its interests.

for considering providing lethal aid to Russia and when Xi Jinping—just reinstated as president for a third term—is planning a trip to Moscow for his 40th meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin ... is positioning itself to play a key role in the reconstruction of a postwar Ukraine. According to reporting from Nikkei Asia , a simulation by the Academy of Military Sciences , a People’s Liberation

The Blind Swing to Great Power Competition

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The blanket dominance of great power competition as a guiding principle for U.S. foreign policy has emerged with breathtaking speed.

to diverse security issues in an attempt to remain relevant (and funded). Real changes in global international affairs foreshadowed this shift, such as the extension of Chinese military presence ... scramble." With consideration, planning and nuance, The United States can be smarter about how it articulates and applies the great power competition lens in Africa. Washington can use this pendulum

cna talks: Domestic Terrorism in the United States

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In the wake of the recent mailed pipe bombs and Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting, CNA experts Bill Rosenau and Dawn Thomas discuss the historical context of domestic terrorism in America and the rise of the “lone wolf” and violent right-wing extremism over recent decades. They distinguish domestic terrorism from hate crimes and examine societal perceptions of the severity of each. They also review prevention and law enforcement responses to hate crimes and domestic terrorism. Rosenau notes that while terrorism is perceived as the more critical threat, Americans are more likely to be a victim of a hate crime. They also point out that if current systems have been unable to predict and identify perpetrators in recent years, it suggests the traditional risk factors may be outdated while modern technology and prediction tools are underutilized. Thomas questions why Americans are increasingly susceptible to malign influence, and Rosenau emphasizes the need for more academic study on domestic terrorism, as it poses a greater threat to American civilians than foreign terrorism.

Bill Rosenau   is an expert on United States and international military advisory roles and missions, international police training, terrorist innovation and political warfare. He is a Senior Policy ... , 2019. Dawn Thomas   is an Associate Director and Research Analyst on the Safety and Security team of CNA, and is an expert in large-scale incident planning and response. In 14 years at CNA

ai with ai: Sokoban, and Thanks for All the Fish!

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In COVID-related AI news, Andy and Dave discuss a machine learning transformer model from Facebook AI and the NYU School of Medicine that uses x-rays to determine whether a COVID patient might need more intensive care. A for-pay report from Synced provides a survey of China’s AI efforts in response to COVID-19. In regular AI news, European Parliament members adopt guidelines for military and non-military uses of AI. Meanwhile, the UK Competition and Markets Authority cautions that algorithms can damage online competition and should face regulatory scrutiny. Researchers at NOIRLab use machine learning to identify just over 1200 potential new gravitational lenses. Researchers at Harvard use fish-inspired robots to demonstrate coordinated swarm movements without any outside control. Nature provides reflections from various authors on AI. And the AI Newsletter compiles a list of the 100 most influential people in AI. In research topics, researchers at Cornell demonstrate a curriculum strategy to solve hard Sokoban (the “warehouse man” game) problems, and builds on a pool of sub-tasks. And in a similar, but unrelated effort, researchers at Berkeley and Google Research create a trio of agents to create challenging but feasible environments for the primary agent, the protagonist to navigate; they use an antagonist agent, which tries to create hard environments, while a third agent maximizes the differential between the other two agents, which keeps the tasks just at the edge of the protagonist’s ability to solve. An article in the Journal of AI Research demonstrates that containment of a superintelligence is impossible, due to fundamental limits inherent in computing itself. And finally, Chitta Ranjan provides the book of the week, in Understanding Deep Learning: Application to Rare Event Prediction

more intensive care. A for-pay report from Synced provides a survey of China’s AI efforts in response to COVID-19. In regular AI news, European Parliament members adopt guidelines for military ... European Parliament members Adopt Guidelines for Military/Non-Military Use of AI Press Release Report (49 pages) UK Watchdog Says that Online algorithms should face regulatory scrutiny ... people in AI Research A Novel Automated Curriculum Strategy to Solve Hard Sokoban Planning Instances Technical paper Emergent Complexity and Zero-shot Transfer via Unsupervised Environment

ai with ai: Driverless Vehicles, Digital Yeast, and Montezuma’s Revenge

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With the news of the first death at the digital hands of a driverless vehicle, Andy and Dave discuss some of the broader issues surrounding the understanding and implementation of AI technology. In other news, they discuss the creation of a digital version of yeast (DCell) as a way to provide insight into the otherwise “black box” of AI. Then, after describing DeepMind’s efforts into using evolutionary Auto Machine Learning to discover neural network architectures, Andy and Dave discuss an example of how background knowledge (“priors”) transfers to the world of games, and how that compares with AI.

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CNA Analysts Share How 9/11 Impacted Their Careers

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Eight CNA analysts share the stories of how the events of September 11, 2001, shaped their careers.

of enlisting in the military, I decided to find another way to serve and support my country. The next semester, I enrolled in my first international affairs class. I changed my minor to political science ... of a capabilities-based planning construct that is still used today at all levels of government. And we wrote the first National Preparedness Reports that sought to assess whether we were achieving the goal. All ... deployed again to serve as an analyst with the Marine Corps in Afghanistan and on various efforts related to Pakistan policy. The importance of the mission and the dedication of military and civilian