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PRC Economic Activity in the Arctic

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On March 14, 2022, CNA hosted a National Security Seminar on Arctic investment and economic activity by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

and the potential for further investments in both natural resource extraction efforts and international trade flows through the region. Mr. Rosen and Ms. Holz discussed a recent CNA project on Arctic foreign ... interest in the region. Ambassador Mann’s comments focused on the EU’s role in Arctic management and cooperation, especially given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its implications for the EU’s goals

Preparing for Tomorrows Threats Overcoming Obstacles

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Preparing for future threats is a vital concern for US strategists. Innovation is one way to confront the threats we may face in the future, but achieving innovation presents organizational, cultural, decisionmaking, and technological challenges. To help strategists and policy-makers navigate these obstacles, CNA’s National Security Seminar (NSS) convened three experts to share their perspectives from their service at different offices within the Pentagon: General James T. Conway (US Marine Corps, ret.), the 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps; Dr. Jamie M. Morin, former Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) at the Department of Defense; and Dr. Francis G. Hoffman, Distinguished Research Fellow at National Defense University, who was instrumental in authoring the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS). The discussion, moderated by CNA’s Dr. Carter Malkasian, was divided into two parts: the first identified obstacles to innovation, and the second looked at how to overcome those obstacles. The event was recorded and is available online.

 these standards. He noted that the barriers to innovation can be entirely legitimate—like “wickets” that must be passed through to ensure a project’s usefulness. He provided examples of large quantities of money ... aversion—which are coupled with similar dynamics playing out in the military-industrial complex. He also noted the vital role of the US Congress as a key exogenous factor with a regular changing management

AI Safety Navy Action Plan

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In light of the Navy’s stated commitment to using AI, and given the strategic importance of AI safety, we provide the Navy with a first step towards a comprehensive approach to safety. We use a risk management approach to frame our treatment of AI safety risks: identifying risks, analyzing them, and suggesting concrete actions for the Navy to begin addressing them. The first type of safety risk, being technical in nature, will require a collaborative effort with industry and academia to address. The second type of risk, associated with specific military missions, can be addressed in a combination of military experimentation, research, and concept development to find ways to promote effectiveness along with safety. For each types of risk, we use examples to show concrete ways of managing and reducing the risk of AI applications. We then discuss institutional changes that would help promote safety in the Navy’s AI efforts.

with a first step towards a comprehensive approach to safety. We use a risk management approach to frame our treatment of AI safety risks: identifying risks, analyzing them, and suggesting concrete actions ... have encountered significant concerns. For example, Google announced that it would no longer support the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) Project Maven, and some parties have urged a pre-emptive ban ... to using AI, and given the strategic importance of the issue of safety, we provide the Navy with a first step toward a more comprehensive approach to AI safety. We use a risk management approach to frame

Gender Issues Post-Bootcamp Pre-Fleet Losses

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This report provides the Navy with a more detailed understanding of why there is a sizable gender gap in attrition rate in highly technical fields, such as Advanced Electronics and Computer Fields, Nuclear, and some Cryptologic Technician specialties.

, after four to six years of service) are anywhere from 5 to 75 percent lower than those of their male counterparts. This research memorandum is part of a larger CNA project sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) (ASN (FM&C)) that is intended to explore cost-effective ways to maintain or even improve retention. This is of particular

Dr. Rebekah Yang on Creatively Planning for Drone Traffic

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CNA’s Rebekah Yang innovated to apply her agent-based model for slowing the spread of COVID in corrections facilities to future drone air traffic scheduling.

for Data Management Analytics . She is the most recent winner of the Phil E. DePoy Award for Analytical Excellence. CNA continuously invests in innovative, independent research projects ... projects, but perhaps most importantly with UCATS™. What is that project, and what’s innovative about it? Yang: UCATS™ has been a very interesting project. We’ve been working in this UAS (uncrewed aircraft systems) traffic management space for a while, starting out deep in the technical details of how to do cybersecurity when exchanging messages between drones and drone operators. But when we looked

A New Map Helps Emergency Managers Get Food to Earthquake Survivors

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Emergency managers in Greater Seattle use a geographic information system (GIS) interactive map by CNA to plan where to distribute earthquake disaster relief.

in geography with a specialization in GIS. Emergency management planners in the Puget Sound region of Washington have a powerful new decision-making tool at their disposal as they plan for earthquake ... than two years working with emergency management leaders in the eight-county region to increase supply chain resilience and help close the preparedness gap. Our analyses build upon prior ... ? In emergency management, a community point of distribution, or CPOD, is a centralized location where the public comes to receive life-sustaining commodities such as food, water, tarps, and ice after

The Case for Data Science at Sea

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A data science team on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier harnessed the power of data analytics and software development to achieve new efficiencies and better performance.

operating forward. Data Science at Sea In November 2022, Carrier Strike Group One (CSG-1), in collaboration with Project Overmatch, established the Navy’s first Data Science at Sea (DS@S) team to create ... Operations (OPNAV) Requirements process to support scaling DS@S to other CSGs. With the support of Project Overmatch, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR), and Program Executive Office ... data management, software development, and data-analytics production center over the course of CSG-1’s 2023–24 deployment. This improvement in capability and scope can mainly be attributed to three

Victim-centered, trauma-informed policing helps victims and police while reducing crime

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Victim-centered, trauma-informed policing is not yet the norm. CNA research aims to help by identifying best practices for successful crime victim outcomes.

and the community as a whole. It can even lead to a reduction in crime. CNA has funded a research project with the goal of helping the US justice system become more supportive of victims of violent crime during interactions with law enforcement personnel. This project, led by CNA’s Center for Justice Research and Innovation and the Center for Vulnerable Population Protection, is exploring trauma-informed best ... and their victim advocates and professional staff for victim-centered response and follow-up and trauma-informed case management. Our preliminary research finds that implementation of an integrated

Dr. Adam Monsalve on Keeping Drone Traffic Communications Secure

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CNA systems engineer Adam Monsalve innovates to ensure that government can operate and regulate uncrewed aircraft systems safely and securely.

approaches toward keeping uncrewed aircraft traffic secure . What are some examples of innovation in this work? Monsalve:  One of the first examples would be a CNA-funded project to compete ... and emergency management first responders using these drones. We had in our minds this key mantra that just because you are a drone operator does not mean you are an IT professional. Our solution also ... that use them. We kept that approach of innovating for simplicity for another CNA-funded project to develop a drone that first responders could use indoors, like in a burning building. Focusing

John Crissman on an AI Tool for First Responders

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CNA computer scientist John Crissman and his team developed a creative tool using machine learning and AI to improve situational awareness for disaster response.

the Innovator John Crissman is a Research Scientist with CNA’s Center for Data Management and Analytics . He is an expert in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing ... . CivTAK is a geospatial mapping tool that lots of first responders already use on their phones or laptops. FRAME ™ can take a wide variety of data from sensors and present it to emergency management ... involved in a CNA project to help the FAA develop an AI certification framework. In the research I’m doing on AI, we're looking at government. We're looking at industry. We're also looking at academia