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pla update: Issue 16, December 1, 2023

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PLA Update, Issue 16, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

for new recruits. On November 10, PLA Daily reported that the Central Military Commission's (CMC's) Agency for Offices Administration recently carried out an annual physical fitness assessment for CMC headquarters personnel. To improve precision and fairness, the agency reportedly used electronic equipment to monitor and keep records of all components of the assessment. Left

Dr. Andrew Mara Named Executive Vice President of the CNA's Center for Naval Analyses

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CNA Corporation today announced that Dr. Andrew Mara has been named Executive Vice President of the Center for Naval Analyses, which is the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) that provides research and analysis for the Department of the Navy.

and Deputy Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE). He led a team working in areas ranging from capabilities, risks and operational impacts ... options on $200 billion in investments. He also led the first space force structure assessment, informing billions of dollars in investments. He received a 2021 Office of the Secretary of Defense

Andrew Mara joins CNA as Vice President and Director for Systems, Tactics, and Force Development

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CNA welcomes Andrew Mara as the new Vice President and Director of the Systems, Tactics, and Force Development (STF) Division.

CNA after 10 years in the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he most recently served as Deputy Director of CAPE’s Capability ... during his time at CAPE, Dr. Mara led several notable “firsts” at the Defense Department, including its first ever space force structure assessment, which directly informed billions of dollars

Domestic Terrorism Offender-Level Database (DTOLD): A Data-Driven Analysis of US Domestic Terrorists’ Life Histories

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This report provides a detailed discussion of analytical findings drawn from DTOLD.

, the finding of a correlation between suicidality and lethality has implications for both threat assessment and risk assessment efforts. Finally, the documented similarities between the life histories

Protecting Servicemembers from Foreign Influence

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Recommendations for protecting U.S. servicemembers from mis-/dis-/mal-information, or MDM, through inoculation, debunking, fact-checking, and media literacy.

to mitigate the threat. We first provide an assessment of how appropriate each intervention is to a military context, and then we provide DOD with recommendations for using these techniques, including methods (virtual or in person), timing for refresher training, and best practices. We also provide a list of available tools and our assessment of their adaptability for the military. Appropriateness

Role of Space in Russia Operations in Ukraine

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Analysis: Russian military space activities in Ukraine have played a critical enabling role for Russian forces, but Russia operates at a disadvantage in space.

how Russia has employed its space and counterspace capabilities in Ukraine. It begins with an overview of Russian theory and doctrine about the role of space in conflict followed by an assessment ... (reconnaissance, communications, navigation, and counterspace). The paper concludes with an assessment of Russia’s potential future courses of action in the space domain.  The role of space in war

Case Study Supply Chain Resilience-Puget Sound

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The Puget Sound region built public-private relationships for grocery supply chain resilience to prepare for earthquakes. COVID put them to the test.

in facilitating a more effective response. This assessment explores these impressions and possible “unintended consequences” of the 2019 project, and derives potential strategic and operational implications. Implications are discussed and follow-on questions are included to prompt consideration of topics for continued examination through other cases and more data-oriented analyses. The assessment

Dimensions of Autonomous Decision Making

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We identify the dimensions of autonomous decision-making—the potential risk that one should consider before transferring decision-making to an intelligent autonomous system.

obligations. The risk elements can also be used by military commanders as a (measurable and testable) pre-operational risk assessment “checklist” to ensure that autonomous systems are not used in an unethical manner. In this way, the Department of Defense (DOD) can make fully informed risk assessment decisions before developing or deploying autonomous systems. Because our study results were specifically

Methuen Police Department Performance Audit

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CNA acknowledges the support and assistance we received from Mayor Neil Perry, members of the Methuen City Council, and the Methuen Police Department in completing this report. The input, experiences, data, and resources we received were invaluable in conducting our research and compiling our findings and recommendations.

interviews and surveys of department personnel. This report presents the results, findings, and recommendations from the audit. CNA's comprehensive assessment of MPD included an examination ... not trust the department’s use of the assessment center to make promotional decisions because there seem to be conflicting interests involved in the process. The MPD’s high number of assigned

Estimated Effects of Facility Quality SROTC Recruitment Retention

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This paper summarizes the research that CNA performed to understand how Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (SROTC) facility conditions may disproportionately affect SROTC recruitment and retention at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs).

quality assessment indicate that nearly 100 percent of SROTC programs in our sample report at least one facility issue. Based on our data call, the most commonly reported issues relate to capacity ... that the services use to assess individual SROTC program success or viability [2]. We suggest that viability assessment measures be reviewed for inclusion of these data. We found that, because