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intersections: Issue 10, June 2024

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Intersections, Issue 10, CNA news digest of China’s efforts to acquire Western technology, U.S. and partner efforts to protect technology for national security.

. Critical and Emerging Technologies Zhongguancun Forum convenes in Beijing. On April 25, the Zhongguancun Forum convened in Beijing. This annual science and technology forum, cohosted by the PRC ... as the "single front door" for supporting "commercialization of quantum technologies" and "creating connections across the quantum ecosystem." Last year, the Australian government's Department of Industry ... sensors. In all four categories, either China or the US led. The five key themes laid out in Australia's 2023 National Quantum Strategy are as follows: Create thriving R&D for quantum technologies

china ai and autonomy report: Issue 18, June 30, 2022

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The China AI and Autonomy Report, issue 18, is a biweekly newsletter published by CNA, on artificial intelligence and autonomy in China.

. The article reports that operations in the deep sea are an emerging operational type that is becoming more important with the development of deep-sea technologies, sensor technologies, communication technologies, and AI. According to the article, "new platforms and weapons such as unmanned submersibles, undersea prepositioned weapons, and foreign military bases will bring about the reconfiguration ... technologies because of their low cost and operational flexibility. In swarm operations, individual systems will be able to carry out mission planning and operations independently with the loss of any one

pla update: Issue 5, June 6, 2022

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PLA Update, Issue 5, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

the PLA Air Force Research Institute, PLA National Defense University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Aviation Industry Corporation of China. [16] EMERGING CAPABILITIES The summary below ... strategic objectives, including the effort to transform the PLA into a "world-class military" by mid-century. [20] One focus area of MCF is the acquisition of foreign dual-use technologies, which ... technologies could be applied in military settings and dismisses the notion that the PLA is dependent on US firms. As Lü puts it, China can "independently develop its own military technology." [26] Lü

NSS Event September 23 2022

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The Russia-Ukraine war is a proving ground for combat tactics for commercial drones and UAVs, an expert panel with Bendett told CNA’s National Security Seminar.

for commercial technologies in combat ( see recording here ). The seminar featured Samuel Bendett, an Adviser with CNA’s Russia Studies Program and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security; Dr. Heather M. Roff, a Senior Research Scientist with CNA’s Special Activities and Intelligence Program and an expert in emerging military technologies; and Faine Greenwood, a senior ... NSS Event September 23 2022 Drones Over Ukraine: Commercial Technologies in Combat The Russia-Ukraine war is a proving ground for combat tactics for commercial drones and UAVs, an expert panel

ai with ai: Bots Behaving Badly

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In COVID-related AI news, Tencent AI Labs publishes a "machine learning" model that can predict the risk of a coronavirus patient developing severe illness. Unsupervised machine learning on data from the U.K.'s COVID Symptom Tracker, which has more than 4 million users, suggests patients cluster into roughly 6 different symptom types. Amazon Web Services releases its version of a scientific literature search on COVID-19. Aminer.org offers an open access knowledge graph of COVID-19. And "Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response" takes a look at global approaches and results with implementing contact tracing. In regular AI news, the National Security Commission on AI releases its latest quarterly report, with 35 recommendations. The latest Congressional Research Service Report covers Emerging Military Technologies, including AI and LAWS. Facebook rolls out a "bot army" to simulate "bad behavior" on a parallel version of its platform, in an effort to understand and combat online abuse. In research, DeepMind publishes findings on reinforcement learning, with a meta-learning approach that discovers an update rule that includes "what to predict" as well as "how to learn from it." Research from Berkeley, DeepMind, and MIT explores exploration by comparing how children learn with reinforcement learning agents in a unified environment. Military Review publishes an article by Courtney Crosby, which describes a framework for operationalizing AI for algorithmic warfare. DeepMind and University College London examines deep reinforcement learning and its implications for neuroscience. And MIT makes available online a full lecture series by Marvin Minsky on "The Society of Mind."

covers Emerging Military Technologies, including AI and LAWS. Facebook rolls out a "bot army" to simulate "bad behavior" on a parallel version of its platform, in an effort to understand and combat ... & AI National Security Commission on AI Releases Report with 35 Recommendations 198 Page Report Congressional Research Service Report:   Report to Congress on Emerging Military Technologies 35 Page Report Facebook rolls a "Bot Army" to simulate "bad behavior" to combat online abuse Facebook's 2017 "Deal or No-deal" paper Research of the Week Discovering

intersections: Issue 13, March 2025

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Intersections is a CNA news digest of China’s efforts to acquire Western technology, and U.S. and partner efforts to protect that technology for national security.

the People's Republic of China's (PRC) technology acquisition and defense industrial base development efforts, US and partner nation responses, and critical and emerging technology risks ... of resource-intensive, large-scale LLMs, as discussed in a recent Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) report on Chinese critiques of LLMs. Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek's founder and also ... . The Dutch government's differentiation of DUV versus EUV exports to China—both in terms of which technologies Dutch authorities choose to place under a formal "export ban" and which types of sales

china ai and autonomy report: Issue 10, March 10, 2022

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The China AI and Autonomy Report, issue 10, is a biweekly newsletter published by CNA, on artificial intelligence and autonomy in China.

  article identifies “four forms” of intelligentized operations.   PLA Daily , the official newspaper of the PLA, published an   article   titled “Analysis of the Emerging Forms of Intelligentized ... characteristics: Cloud-supported operational systems.   Big data and cloud computing technologies will be used to integrate information from multiple domains and rapidly disseminate battlefield information ... . Activities that need higher network requirements, such as disaster warning, will be deployed in the eastern hubs. PRC tech executives emphasize the digital economy and advanced technologies in the lead-up

russian media analysis: Issue 7, January 7, 2022

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Russian Perspectives on Western Military Activities

, and the legitimacy crisis besetting Western democracies in particular. 11. US and NATO weapons and threats to Russia Numerous Russian articles provide overviews of current and emerging Western weapons technologies, including US and NATO missile defense infrastructure, unmanned aircraft that could potentially accompany the B-21 Raider bomber, and missiles and hypersonic systems. 12. Reaction to restrictions on export of US space technologies Evgeniy Fedorov discusses a bill introduced in December 2021 by Senator Marco Rubio called the Space Protection of American Command

CNA Innovation Incubator: Shaping the Future Through Research

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CNA announced the launch of the CNA Innovation Incubator (CNAi2) to invest in creative, forward-thinking research to solve the government’s toughest challenges.

AI and Autonomy; Emerging Security Threats; Emerging Technologies; Modeling, Simulation, and Gaming; Predictive Analytics; and Data Visualization. Arlington, VA /images/CNAi ... in independent research projects that explore new tools and approaches for addressing emerging challenges. CNAi 2 showcases this self-funded innovative work, featuring both the projects and the people

Reimagining Defense Strategy

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This event continued a conversation begun at CNA’s September 16, 2021, National Security Seminar, titled “Planning for Tomorrow’s Threats: Overcoming Obstacles to Organize, Adapt, and Innovate.” In this event, we heard insights on defense strategy from Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer of Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. Mr. Brose shared his perspective as a former staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee under Chairman John McCain. He is also the author of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare. Dr. Carter Malkasian, from CNA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The event was recorded and is available online.

 technologies such as autonomy; and the ability to strike the opponent over a long range. The term kill chain is not new; in fact, kill chains and OODA (observe-orient-decide-act) loops have long-standing ... that improve human understanding, decision-making, and action to enable more efficient, autonomous, and larger scale operations. This new paradigm should constitute the criteria for evaluating emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and autonomy. Although those technologies will be important for the “right” side of the kill chain (i.e., the so-called lethality and kinetic