Category: Content Series

Next time, R&D against O&M

By James Hasik

Buying new F-22s would be a very bad idea indeed. Almost every defense-industrial publication this month has covered the language in the House version of the 2017 National Defense Authorization bill which directs the Pentagon “to conduct a comprehensive assessment and study of the costs associated with resuming production of F-22 aircraft.” We could take […]

Did Ukraine Power Grid Hack Give Russia an Edge?

By CSM Passcode and Jack Detsch

At an Atlantic Council event Thursday, experts said that a Ukrainian power outage allegedly triggered by Russian hackers may be just a small piece of Moscow’s cybersecurity strategy. If Russian hackers did shut down swaths of Ukraine’s power grid last year, as US officials have claimed, it may be just one piece of Moscow’s strategy […]

Should Silicon Valley take the Pentagon seriously?

By James Hasik

Culture still trumps law in the quest for military innovation. On Tuesday evening, as part of the Council’s Captains of Industry series, our Lund Fellow Steve Grundman hosted a panel discussion amongst the CEOs of three Californian startup firms. Mylea Charvat’s Savonix is building a “mobile, clinically valid, reliable, neuro-cognitive assessment and brain health platform.” John De Santis’s […]

Westward Ho? Silicon Valley and the Future of Defense Innovation

Westward Ho? Silicon Valley and the Future of Defense Innovation

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On Tuesday, April 19th from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., the Atlantic Council Captains of Industry initiative featured a discussion with three business leaders from Silicon Valley whose companies are responding to Secretary of Defense Carter’s outreach to the commercial technology sector.

Burwell Joins The Diane Rehm Show to Discuss What Britain’s Potential Exit From the European Union Could Mean For Global Markets

By Frances G. Burwell

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