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Startups Series: Steve Nordlund, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
Steve Nordlund, Vice President, Strategy for Boeing Defense, Space and Security, tells the story of Insitu, the startup responsible for the ScanEagle drone, it’s collaboration...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Startups Series: Ted Schlein, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers
Ted Schlein, Partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, talks cybersecurity, his experience collaborating with the DoD, and differences in valuations b...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Startups Series: Nate Fick, Endgame
Nate Fick, CEO of cybersecurity company Endgame and former CEO at CNAS, discusses the cybersecurity market, running a venture backed startup, and ways in which the DoD provide...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Startups Series: Raj Shah, DIUx
Raj Shah, managing partner at Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), explains why the DoD is focused on partnering with startups, challenges for collaboration, and how t...
By Ben FitzGerald
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What Europe Got Wrong About the NSA
Over the last several years, as western Europe has been hit by Islamist terrorist attack after Islamist terrorist attack, Germany has largely avoided the violence. But the ref...
By Adam Klein & Michèle Flournoy
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Game of Drones: What Happens When Everyone Has Killer Robots?
At the end of June, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released a report counting U.S. counterterrorism drone strikes outside areas of active hostilities and resultin...
By Alexandra Sander
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Adam Klein Discusses the Security Implications of Brexit
The British referendum to leave the European Union is a massive shock to the European political order. But what are its implications for U.S. foreign policy? Conventional w...
By Adam Klein
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Defense Innovation - Between a Rock and a Cliché
By Ben FitzGerald
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Put the X-47B Back to Work — As a Tanker
Salty Dog 501 and 502 sit silent in their hangars, their expected contributions to naval aviation unfulfilled. Before the Navy spends time and money ginning up another expensi...
By Jerry Hendrix
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The B-21 Bomber Should Be Unmanned on Day 1
While plans for the B-21 — née Long Range Strike-Bomber — have long included an unmanned option, Air Force officials have shown little interest in having that capability on Da...
By Kelley Sayler & Paul Scharre
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Reforming Acquisitions and the Need for Speed
This month, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, unveiled new acquisition reform legislation. The draft stand-alone bill is noteworthy from a ...
By Alexandra Sander, Ben FitzGerald & Jacqueline Parziale
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Opinion: Cybersecurity collaboration needs a toolkit. So we built a prototype
Financial sector institutions from the US and Britain tested their cybersecurity cooperation last month in a joint exercise, dubbed operation Resilient Shield. The table-top e...
By Alexandra Sander & Ben FitzGerald
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Ben FitzGerald before the Senate Armed Services Committee
Senior Fellow Ben FitzGerald testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the next steps regarding acquisition reform....
By Ben FitzGerald
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The Smartphone Wars are Coming
We are living today in the midst of the greatest democratization of information since the invention of the printing press. Smartphones transform any person into a citizen repo...
By Paul Scharre
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How American Can Cross the Digital Security Divide
In the past year, the United States has learned about unprecedented digital data breaches ranging from the confidential files of Sony Pictures, to the security clearance recor...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Crackdown: Time to Pressure China on Cyber Theft
At last month’s state visit by Chinese president Xi Jinping, both Xi and President Obama pledged that their governments would refrain from cyberespionage targeting intellectua...
By Harry Krejsa
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The Right Way to Sanction Cyber Threats
As cybersecurity was a major topic for President Obama’s summit with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping, the Obama Administration has a clear opportunity to use U.S. economic sanction...
By Peter Harrell
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Bob Butler before the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Bob Butler, adjunct senior fellow for the CNAS Technology and National Security Program, testified for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs....
By Bob Butler
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This Week in Defense News: DoD Offset Strategy
By Ben FitzGerald
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Beyond Offset: Paul Scharre on Technical Landscape
By Paul Scharre