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Katherine McGrady Presents Teamwork Award to the Emerging Technology Team

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The team was applauded for their outstanding performance in a series of UAS challenges organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Katherine McGrady Presents Teamwork Award to the Emerging Technology Team The team was applauded for their outstanding performance in a series of UAS challenges organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. /images/InDepth/2023/07/CNA-Awards-day-editted.jpg Katherine McGrady Presents Teamwork Award to the Emerging Technology Team CNA Communications Team On July 26, 2023, CEO ... where emerging technology and emergency management intersect. They have successfully brought together CNA expertise in AI, machine learning, cybersecurity, drones, public safety, and emergency response

How To Build a Successful Space Force?

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The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act released Monday night by a House-Senate conference committee authorizes the creation of a U.S. Space Force, the first new service created since 1947.

operations. Many Space Force positions will benefit both from a depth of experience and from maintaining currency in space science, technology and engineering. So a Space Force might want ... programs; and three, to consider alternative types of acquisitions such as large volume, single-mission small satellites or commercial off-the-shelf products and services. Doing acquisition differently ... the domestic industrial base to stabilize and flourish. To implement these new processes and requirements, Space Force acquisition will need what the business world calls “organizational ambidexterity

The AUKUS Submarine Agreement

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President Biden announced the creation of a new trilateral defense partnership to develop a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia between the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, called AUKUS.

for this partnership is to develop a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia through the sharing of U.S. technology. While not specifically called out by name during the announcement, China’s ... between some key U.S. allies in Europe and in the Indo-Pacific. By agreeing to build a new nuclear-fueled submarine fleet with U.S. technology, Australia abruptly ended its 2016 contract worth ... acquisition at the time, but had reportedly been plagued by delays, cost overruns, design changes and even a massive leak of documents from a cyberattack in the years since. The French reaction

To Bootstrap US Maritime Industrial Base, Link Allies and Innovators

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US commercial and naval shipbuilding cannot be revived quickly, but here are four ways US strength in innovation can link with US ally strength in shipbuilding.

defense technology startups with overseas production. Another avenue for cooperation in the maritime sector would link US defense technology startups with allied manufacturers abroad in support ... at Japanese and Korean management models and attempting to graft relevant lessons. And South Korea’s Hanwha has made a direct move into the US through its acquisition of the Philly Shipyard . The US

Drones Over Ukraine

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Samuel Bendett explores how Russia and Ukraine have used unmanned aerial vehicles, especially commercial drones, throughout the war in Ukraine.

Chechnya also started using civilian UAV technology. The downside is that these drones are not really military grade and are not designed for combat, but they have a low acquisition cost (and a low ... Over Ukraine 119 Samuel Bendett Samuel Bendett is an Advisor for CNA's Russia Studies Program . He is an expert on the Russian defense and technology developments, unmanned and autonomous military ... models—both civilian and military—that gather information and provide situational awareness. Commercial drone technology has matured and evolved to the point where practically anyone can buy a civilian

CNA Analysts Share Their Memories of 9/11

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CNA analysts reflect on how September 11, 2001, changed their careers.

–Bolling in DC. I was supposed to be at the Pentagon at 9:00 a.m. on September 11 to give the weekly DIA acquisition intelligence report to the Deputy Director for Naval Warfare in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. My boss, however, changed this plan. He needed someone to take his place at conference at the Army Intelligence Center in Charlottesville

To Counter China’s Economic Threat to US Industry, Seek Resilience, Not Deterrence

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Economic deterrence, a priority in the National Defense Industrial Strategy, is vague and difficult. To compete with China, economic resilience is preferable.

acquisition of advanced foreign technology and dominance of critical supply chains as fundamental to its security and prosperity. For economic deterrence to force Beijing to change its behavior

The US Advances its Pacific Partnership Strategy in Micronesia

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April Herlevi examines recent agreements between the US and Pacific Island nations and how they fit into the country’s Pacific Partnership Strategy.

Research Scientist with CNA's Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Program. She is an expert on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) foreign and security policy, economic statecraft for technology acquisition, and the increasing role of PRC commercial, economic and military actors globally. Photo courtesy of Bill Jaynes – The Kaselehlie Press In May, the US and Micronesia made several important

ai with ai: The Low-Res Valley

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In AI news, researchers from the University of Copenhagen develop a machine learning model that estimates the chances of risk of death due to COVID at various stages of a hospital stay, including a 80 percent accuracy whether a patient with COVID will require a respirator. The Joint AI Center has a double-announcement, with the Tradewind Initiative, which seeks to develop an acquisition ecosystem to speed the delivery of AI capabilities, and with Blanket Purchase Agreements for AI testing and evaluation services. Kaggle publishes a survey on the 2020 State of Data Science and ML, which examines information from ~2000 data scientists about their jobs and their experiences. PeopleTec releases an “Overhead MNIST,” a dataset containing benchmark satellite imagery for 10 categories (parking lots, cars, plans, storage tanks, and others). Epic’s Unreal Engine introduces the MetaHuman Creator for release later this year, which purports to create ultra-realistic visuals for virtual human characters; Andy uses the moment to describe the “Uncanny Valley,” which the Epic tech might manage to leap out of. And researchers from Carnegie Mellon and George Washington show that, like language transformers, image representations contain human-like biases. In research, researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology create a Ramanujan Machine, which can generate conjectures for mathematical constants, without proof. Researchers demonstrate initial steps of reconstructing video from brain activity. The report of the week examines U.S. public opinion on AI, with views on declining support for development and divided views on facial recognition. DeepMind London approaches the topic of common sense from the viewpoint of animals. And the book of the week comes from the author of the aforementioned paper, Murray Shanahan, and his 2010 book Embodiment and the Inner Life.

In AI news, researchers from the University of Copenhagen develop a machine learning model that estimates the chances of risk of death due to COVID at various stages of a hospital stay, including a 80 percent accuracy whether a patient with COVID will require a respirator. The Joint AI Center has a double-announcement, with the Tradewind Initiative, which seeks to develop an acquisition ... transformers, image representations contain human-like biases. In research, researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology create a Ramanujan Machine, which can generate conjectures for mathematical

cna talks: Ukraine Today, Taiwan Tomorrow

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This episode covers how Taiwan applies lessons from the Ukraine War to prepare for a potential invasion from the People’s Republic of China. 

, economic statecraft for technology acquisition, and the increasing role of PRC commercial, economic, and military actors globally. Dr. Pollpeter is the Director of Research at the Air University’s ... . Before joining CASI he was the Senior Research Scientist at CNA. He previously served as the deputy director of a project on innovation and technology in China for the University of California’s