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Regional Security Initiative

Mar 23, 2015

Artful balance: The future of US defense strategy and force posture in the Gulf

By Bilal Y. Saab and Barry Pavel

A strategic review of US defense strategy and force posture in the Gulf is long overdue. In Artful Balance: Future US Defense Strategy and Force Posture in the Gulf, Bilal Y. Saab, Resident Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, and Barry Pavel, Vice President and […]

Maritime Security Middle East

Defense Industrialist

Mar 23, 2015

Why Can’t More Agencies be like DARPA or SOCOM?

By James Hasik

Thornberry’s aim for agility may mean more agency, with faster-better-cheaper results. David Ignatius thinks that the “federal government could use more agencies like DARPA”. Earlier this month in the Washington Post, he wrote that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency “behaves more like a Silicon Valley start-up than a bureaucracy.” Alex Haber and Jeff Jeffress […]

Art of Future Warfare

Mar 20, 2015

How the Next Great War Begins

By Brent Scowcroft Center

The Art of Future Warfare, an initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, hosted an event titled “How the Next Great War Begins” on March 17. The event served as a conclusion to the initiative’s recent essay contest that explored the same question. With a distinguished panel that included Admiral James […]

Cyber Risk Wednesdays

Mar 19, 2015

Cyber risk Wednesday: Rewards and risks of the healthcare Internet of Things

By Cyber Statecraft Initiative

In order to examine the balance of the security challenges and societal opportunities of networked healthcare devices, on March 18, 2015 the Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative gathered a group of experts for a panel discussion and an accompanied report release. Jason Healey, Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, moderated the discussion between Pat Calhoun, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Network Safety at McAfee, Suzanne B. Schwartz, Director of Emergency Preparedness, Operations, and Medical Countermeasures at US Food and Drug Administration, and Joshua Corman, Chief Technology Officer at Sonatype.

Cybersecurity Internet

Emerging Defense Challenges

Mar 14, 2015

Grundman on United Technologies and Sikorsky

By Steven Grundman

Defense News quotes M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges Steven Grundman on whether United Technologies will divest its Sikorsky unit and what this says about the shrinking profit margins across the defense sector:

Defense Industrialist

Mar 11, 2015

Treaty Limitation Spurs Military Innovation

By James Hasik

Boeing and Saab’s ground-launched glide bomb is quite possibly a brilliantly cost-effective supplement to close air support. The defense trade press has devoted a flurry of coverage over the past two days to Boeing and Saab’s announcement that it recently tested a ground-launched version of the GBU-39B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB). The 250-pound unitary is a clean replacement of the cluster munitions on […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Mar 10, 2015

Why a Cost-Plus LRS-B Contract?

By James Hasik

Northrop, Lockheed, or Boeing may be about to debut a radical new manufacturing technology. The Senate Armed Services Air-Land Subcommittee will be holding a hearing next week on structure and modernization in the US Air Force. One of the issues sure to arise is the Air Force’s procurement plan for its long-planned Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B). William LaPlante, assistant secretary for […]

Defense Industrialist

Mar 5, 2015

How can small powers manage disruptive military technologies?

By James Hasik

Some thoughts at the 2015 EASO seminar in Brunei. I’m in Brunei today for the 7th annual East Asia Security Outlook (EASO) seminar, held for the Ministry of Defense by the Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Defense and Security Studies. To close the day, I was asked to deliver a talk applying our work at the Atlantic Council […]

Defense Industry Indo-Pacific

Europe After The Vote

Mar 3, 2015

What’s Next for Greece

By Global Business and Economics

On February 26, 2015, the Global Business and Economics Program hosted a EuroGrowth Conversation Series event focusing on Greece’s current economic situation at a small, off-the-record roundtable that brought together several leading policymakers as well as high-ranking representatives from international organizations, think tanks, and academia. Thanos Catsambas, alternate IMF Executive Director for Greece, and Jay […]

Europe & Eurasia European Union

Emerging Defense Challenges

Feb 26, 2015

Grundman on the Defense Business Board

By Steven Grundman

M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges Steven Grundman joins Federal News Radio’s In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the Defense Business Board and Pentagon spending reductions: Listen to the full interview here.