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U.S. Poised to Further Tighten Technology Exports to China after Balloon Incident
In The News
Current and former security officials say the balloon, which the U.S. said carried antennas and sensors for collecting intelligence and communications, underscores the nationa...
By Martijn Rasser
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Senators Are Talking about Another Big China Bill
In The News
Among a long list of measures, it would have sent more military assistance to allies in the Pacific, bolstered development bank lending to replace Chinese investment in Latin ...
By Martijn Rasser
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DoD’s Clarified AI Policy Flashes ‘Green Light’ for Robotic Weapons: Experts
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“The old directive basically [said], in order to get approval for certain systems, you had to go through this review process, but it didn’t explain how to do the process,” sai...
By Paul Scharre
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Killer Robot Swarms, an Update
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The Pentagon doesn’t openly discuss many of its most advanced technologies, but last year it called for proposals from the defense industry for a new program called AMASS, for...
By Samuel Bendett
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Drone Explodes Less Than 100 Miles From Moscow as Fear of Strikes Grows
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Samuel Bendett, Russia analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, told Newsweek that he was still gather...
By Samuel Bendett
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NOTEWORTHY: DoD Autonomous Weapons Policy
Press Note
In this CNAS Noteworthy, Vice President and Director of Studies Paul Scharre breaks down the new Directive and what it means for the U.S. military’s approach to lethal autonom...
By Paul Scharre
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How the U.S. Could Ban TikTok in 7 Not-So-Easy Steps
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Trump’s order would have immediately prohibited app stores from distributing TikTok, and nearly two months later would have barred cloud providers and internet infrastructure ...
By Pablo Chavez
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America’s Hoped-For Asian Semiconductor Pact Looks Tricky
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The vision of a “democratic semiconductor supply chain” is not implausible. But creating chip networks rather than fuelling chip wars will require careful co-ordination within...
By Martijn Rasser
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Can Russia’s Combat Robots Compete with U.S. Abrams Tanks?
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But Samuel Bendett, of the Center for Naval Analyses, cast doubts on Rogozin's claim that the "Marker" would be able to take on the likes of the M1 Abrams and the Leopard 2 ma...
By Samuel Bendett
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Huawei Latest Target of US Crackdown on China Tech
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Since taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden has taken an even more aggressive stance than his predecessor, Donald Trump. Now the Biden administration appears to be headin...
By Sam Howell
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How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defense industry
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“The Ukraine conflict has been an important wake-up call for decision makers at the Pentagon,” says Martijn Rasser, director of technology and national security at the Center ...
By Martijn Rasser & Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia Says It Will Fast-Track Testing of Tank-Killing Robot in Ukraine
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Currently, there are just five Markers in existence, and according to Rogozin, four of them are being sent to the Donbas region of Ukraine. “What’s interesting is that Marker...
By Samuel Bendett
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Washington Halts Licenses for U.S. Companies to Export to Huawei
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Martijn Rasser, a technology expert at CNAS, a think-tank, said the latest action was a “really significant move”. “The actions by the commerce department are partly driven by...
By Martijn Rasser
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Mass-Market Military Drones Have Changed the Way Wars Are Fought
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By 2016, ISIS had modified DJI Phantom quadcopters to drop grenades. These weapons joined the arsenal of scratch-built ISIS drones, using parts that investigators with Conflic...
By Samuel Bendett
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A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Is a Real and Dangerous Possibility That Could Wreck Armies and Ruin the Global Economy Worse than the 1929 Stock Market Crash
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While US businesses can take some steps to reduce their reliance on Taiwan chipmaking, including bolstering their chip inventories and diversifying their supply chains, this i...
By Martijn Rasser
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Generative AI Like Viral ChatGPT Lands on DISA Technology Watch List
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ChatGPT, applauded by some for its potential to augment worker productivity and spurned by others over questions of bias and ethics, surpassed 1 million registered users withi...
By Bill Drexel
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The Pentagon Is Getting More Serious about AI
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It’s unclear how much the Switchblades have been used in the conflict, but their presence underscore how the age of autonomous warfare has arrived, despite much of the debate ...
By Paul Scharre
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Overmatch Secrecy Needed as China, Russia Surveil US Navy, Experts Say
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Project Overmatch is the Navy’s contribution to Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2, the Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar push to connect disparate databases and forc...
By Bill Drexel
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Batteries Are the Battlefield
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It’s not just in battery supply chains where China plays a commanding role either. Across a spate of clean energy technologies—including wind power and solar panels—Beijing’s ...
By Sam Howell
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China surpassing US in key innovation metric and evolving from ‘imitator’, Washington report says
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Another challenge involving China, analysts said, is that its politics often drive tech policy, and Beijing can be adept at hiding weaknesses and avoiding transparency. This m...
By Alexandra Seymour
