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Samuel Bendett

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Samuel Bendett is a CNA advisor focusing on Russian military technology and capabilities, drones, robotic and autonomous military systems, and AI.

to joining CNA, Bendett worked at the National Defense University on emerging and disruptive technologies to aid the Department of War (DOW) in responding to domestic and international crisis situations. His previous experience includes working for the U.S. Congress, the private sector and nonprofit organizations on foreign policy, international conflict resolution, and defense and security issues ... Samuel Bendett’s research focuses on Russian defense and technology developments; uncrewed, robotic and autonomous military systems; artificial intelligence; and Russian military capabilities. Bendett

Strategy and Policy Analysis Program

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Analysis of defense policy, global alliances, nuclear issues, non-traditional security challenges and Arctic strategy.

Strategy and Policy Analysis Analysis of defense policy, global alliances, nuclear issues, non-traditional security challenges and Arctic strategy. /images/Centers/CNA/SP3/shutterstock_1839521494small.jpg Strategy and Policy Analysis Program HIGH-LEVEL INSIGHTS FOR HIGH-LEVEL CHALLENGES CNA’s  Strategy and Policy Analysis Program  helps U.S. government leaders understand national security and defense strategy challenges and analyze their options to address them. Our experts in military and naval affairs have provided on-site analytic support to Service-level headquarters and at U.S.-based

Single Salary Analysis

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This report presents our findings on identifying and prioritizing the potential second- and third-order effects of the Department of Defense (DOD) moving to a single-salary system (SSS) for military compensation. We identified more than 25 potential effects in six broad areas: housing and food arrangements, retention and separation pays, changes in the dependency ratio, family and dependent benefits, income support programs, and other effects. The report provides information, for each effect, on the number of people potentially affected, budget costs, and potential risks to readiness, based on an extensive literature and policy review and conversations with subject-matter experts from across DOD and the services. We recommend that DOD undertake additional analysis in the areas of housing and food arrangements and retention and separation pays. We also recommend that DOD consider the potential effects of an SSS on military marriage rates and the dependency ratio. We provide a number of topics for further research that will help DOD think through the implications of moving to an SSS.

on an extensive literature and policy review and conversations with subject matter experts from across the Department of Defense (DOD) and the services. We also highlight potential research questions that could ... second- and third-order effects of the Department of Defense (DOD) moving to a single-salary system (SSS) for military compensation. We identified more than 25 potential effects in six broad areas ... , for each effect, on the number of people potentially affected, budget costs, and potential risks to readiness, based on an extensive literature and policy review and conversations with subject-matter

Sarah Fusco

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Sarah Fusco is a specialist in international and non-traditional security threats, including climate change and national security.

as in the Indo-Pacific region. From 2022 to 2023, she was assigned to the Office of Arctic and Global Resilience, where she served as a policy advisor within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. During her time in the Pentagon, her work mainly focused on incorporating non-traditional security challenges into existing national defense programming, collaborating often with the services

David Kaufman

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of homeland security, emergency management, public safety and public health preparedness. Kaufman is accomplished in strategy formulation and policy analysis and valued for his ability ... expert for the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. He has served as a committee chair and appointed roundtable member for the National Academy of Sciences. Prior to joining CNA, Kaufman held several senior positions in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and he served as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s associate administrator for Policy, Program

Jerry Meyerle

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Meyerle-Jerry /images/Experts/Meyerle-Gerald.webp Jerry Meyerle is an expert in military operations and warfighting, defense policy and posture, strategic planning, and combatant commands. A CNA analyst since 2007, he has led complex and important research projects for Congress, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, Navy, and Marine Corps. Meyerle has served as a CNA field representative with the Marine Corps in Afghanistan, with the Navy in the Persian Gulf, and at U.S. Central Command. Meyerle's work has focused on helping senior defense leaders and their staffs

Darlene Onuorah

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Onuorah-Darlene /images/Experts/Onuorah-Darlene.webp Darlene Onuorah specializes in US-Japan relations, Japanese defense and foreign policy, and Northeast Asian security affairs. Her research at CNA focuses on the political-military dynamics of US allies and partners, maritime security cooperation, and regional media analysis. Prior to joining CNA, Onuorah worked as a project associate ... Korea policy exchanges. Onuorah earned a Master of Arts in international affairs with a concentration in US foreign policy from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in global studies from

Matt Prebble

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Matt Prebble is a CNA expert in data analytics, operations research, machine learning and space systems.

analyst for ANSER supporting the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Space)/DNRO and the OSD Office of Space Policy. While at ANSER he participated in Congressional, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary ... served a three-year term on the American College of Sports Medicine's Health and Science Policy Committee helping develop policy positions related to health, wellness, and prevention of sports injuries

John Schaus

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Schaus-John /images/Experts/Schaus-John.webp John Schaus is an expert on US defense issues in the Indo-Pacific region. He has 20 years of experience conducting and leading analysis on the region. Prior to CNA, he worked in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has also led research at the US Army War College and worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has spent two years living and working in northeast China. Schaus earned a Master of Public Policy degree from

Reconstituting a Viable and Effective A76 Program

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The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense asked CNA to make recommendations to improve the A-76 process and to consider the repercussions of changing certain laws governing the conversion of DOD functions to the privatesector. Specifically, CNA was tasked to examine the following issues; what best practices and lessons learned can be gleaned from the legacy A-76 program, what were the deficiencies and challenges of the legacy A-76 program and how can they be addressed in a future program, what actionable, practical, and concrete steps need to be taken to establish an effective A-76 program, and what policy improvements, process enhancements, additional resources, and organizational structures are necessary to ensure the viability and credibility of a reconstituted A-76 public-private competition capability in DOD?

Reconstituting a Viable and Effective A76 Program Reconstituting a Viable and Effective A-76 Program The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense asked CNA to make recommendations to improve ... program, what actionable, practical, and concrete steps need to be taken to establish an effective A-76 program, and what policy improvements, process enhancements, additional resources, and organizational structures are necessary to ensure the viability and credibility of a reconstituted A-76 public-private competition capability in DOD? Issue and tasking The Department of Defense (DOD)is working