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Michelle Kholos Brooks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Security & Defense

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Max Brooks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Crisis Management National Security

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August Cole

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Steven Grundman

Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Adam Hammer

Nonresident Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

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Defense Industrialist

Mar 25, 2014

Did NATO Rearm Russia?

By James Hasik

Arms sales to Moscow have been more embarrassing than alarming, but it’s time to stop. Now that Ukraine has surrendered Crimea after the most perfunctory fight, attention has turned to what the Russian Army might invade next. Estonia? Molodova? In the latter case, SACEUR worries that they Russians will just drive through Kyiv on the way. Perhaps […]

Ukraine

Defense Industrialist

Mar 12, 2014

Is the FD-2000 an Albatross or a Raptor-killer?

By James Hasik

How Chinese missile marketing poses three very different theses about Chinese strategy The Hurriyet Daily News reported yesterday that enthusiasm has begun to wane amongst local subcontractors in CPMIEC’s proposed sale of FD-2000 anti-aircraft missile batteries to Turkey. CPMIEC has been blacklisted by the US government under the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act, and Turkish firms […]

Defense Industrialist

Mar 7, 2014

Productivity before platforms

By August Cole

For the Pentagon, reducing the cost of big systems will be only half the battle. In technology, as in air-to-air combat, speed can be everything. Yet even as fifth-generation fighters such as the F-22 push the aeronautical envelope, America’s military is struggling to keep up with a disorienting worldwide acceleration of technological development that it […]

Defense Industry Economy & Business

Defense Industrialist

Mar 6, 2014

How NATO Can Help Rebuild Ukraine’s Defenses

By James Hasik

Ukraine is the world’s fourth-largest arms exporter. That isn’t useful right now against Russia, but it may be someday. News from Crimea over the past month has been endlessly surprising, but often missed is a surprising industrial fact: Ukraine currently ranks as the world’s fourth-largest arms exporter. The local industry had a blowout year in 2012 […]

Ukraine

Captains of Industry Series

Mar 5, 2014

Webcast: Information Technology and the Future of Defense

Please join us on March 5 from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. for a dicussion with David Zolet, executive vice president and general manager, CSC North America Public Sector.

Emerging Defense Challenges

Mar 5, 2014

Grundman Breaks Down Pentagon Strategy Report

By Steven Grundman

Steven Grundman, M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges with the Brent Scowcroft Center, joins Federal News Radio to discuss the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review:

Captains of Industry Series

Mar 5, 2014

Achieving Defense Information Superiority

Cloud computing. Big data analytics. Cybersecurity. These are among the most important technological advances that are transforming the landscape of the world’s unfolding information technology revolution. However, as demonstrated by the Healthcare.gov website debacle and a mixed record of other information system acquisition programs, the federal government often struggles to harness these technologies to their […]

Captains of Industry Series

Mar 5, 2014

Prepared Remarks by David Zolet, Executive Vice President North American Public Sector, CSC

By David Zolet

Prepared Remarks by David Zolet, Executive Vice President North American Public Sector, CSC delivered at the fourth event in Atlantic Council Captains of Industry series on March 6, 2014.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Mar 4, 2014

For Faster R&D, Restore Rivalry and Realism.

By James Hasik

In AvWeek, Bill Sweetman pines for another Polaris program. Here’s how to recapture the magic.  In last week’s issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Bill Sweetman observes (“Does the Pentagon give contractors an incentive for slow R&D?”) how the same US Defense Department that had put a nuclear submarine to sea with sixteen long-range nuclear-tipped ballistic […]

Defense Industrialist

Mar 3, 2014

Replacing the M113 Shouldn’t be Hard, but Competitive Contracting is.

As GD and BAE square off for the AMPV, the US Army shouldn’t pick a winner before the envelopes are opened. With the cancellation of the Ground Combat Vehicle, the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) program is now the US Army’s top platform modernization priority. But money is still tight. In 2012 and 2013, I endorsed the idea that the […]

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