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Experts

Fellow

Courtney Spivey Urschel

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Human Rights Middle East

Fellow

Priya Pillai

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Africa Conflict

Fellow

Joshua Hotvet

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Rolando Mattar

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Tom Wotka

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Kalle Meehan

Women Leader in Energy and Climate Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment
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Content

Defense Industrialist

Jan 13, 2015

Customers’ problems should inform defense contractors’ strategies.

By James Hasik

Customers’ problems should inform defense contractors’ strategies. Last week, Paul McLeary of Defense News aired the views of some seasoned observers of our business regarding the future of strategy and structure. Our industry, as the title went, is “Running out of Time; Mergers Loom.” Many of the larger contractors have been focusing on cutting costs, […]

Defense Industry Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Jan 9, 2015

Unmanned Manning Problems

By James Hasik

Is the USAF trying hard enough to find drone pilots?   The US Air Force is looking for a few good drone operators. The hours are long. The work environment is substantially contained within conex boxes rigged as command centers. The business can get grim, at least on the other end of that video feed. As the squadron commander says […]

Drones Technology & Innovation

Defense Industrialist

Jan 8, 2015

Damocles’ Depth Charge

By James Hasik

The US Navy may be putting its money into undersea automation.   The Chinese threat, Assistant Navy Secretary Sean Stackley told our audience at the Council yesterday, is “not countable”. Their land-based anti-ship missiles are legion, and they’re building submarines faster than he can buy his own Virginia-class boats, even at the congratulatory rate of two per year. The […]

China

Defense Industrialist

Jan 2, 2015

Andy Marshall’s Fight Club

By James Hasik

Eight Rules to Guide the Search for the Next Director of Net Assessment   Andy Marshall, the first, long-serving, and so-far-only director of the Office of Net Assessment (ONA), the Pentagon’s internal think tank, is retiring today. “The Future of Net Assessment,” Defense News has opined, is very important. The choice of Marshall’s successor—and even whether to […]

Defense Industrialist

Dec 31, 2014

Setting Up for Innovative Success

By Alex Haber, Jeff Jeffress

Defense can apply a set of flexible parameters to keep the practice of innovation relevant and meaningful.   In just under 60 pages, the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review uses some form of the word innovation 33 times. That’s more than you’ll find the terms soldier, Air Force, coordination, direction, and policy—combined. Colleagues across defense agree […]

NATO Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 30, 2014

Organizing that Coastal Artillery

By James Hasik

Comparative military organization shows how organizational culture and bureaucratic politics affect defense planning.   The host of essays in recent months speculating about a rebuilt Coastal Artillery for the US Army requires some followup. The argument for coastal defenses clearly has some merit. If it’s reasonable to field ground-based anti-aircraft batteries, while still relying substantially on […]

NATO Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 26, 2014

David Berteau Wants to Actually Plan for Sustainment

By James Hasik

  An incoming assistant secretary’s focus will be essential for holding down spending in the long run.   It’s a shame that Ashton Carter keeps getting all the attention. In more than a crosstown nod to a think-taking colleague, I’d like to highlight another incoming Pentagon appointee, David Berteau, who is entering office with an ambitious idea. As reported […]

NATO Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 19, 2014

One Robot To Rule Them All

By Philip Thorell, James Hasik

By standardizing too soon, the US Army risks missing the next new thing.   Citing budgetary restraints and interoperability challenges, the US Army last month announced plans to scale back its robotics program, and transition to a single type of ground robot sometime after 2020. Today’s “mixed fleet of systems”, the Army says, has led […]

Emerging Defense Challenges

Dec 18, 2014

Securing Operations Superiority Through Defense Innovation: A UK Perspective

By Brent Scowcroft Center

On Wednesday December 17, 2014, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security welcomed Philip Dunne MP, minister for defense, equipment, support and technology, for his speech titled “Securing Operational Superiority through Defense Innovation: A UK Perspective.” This Defense-Industrial Policy Series event, cohosted with the National Defense Industrial Association, was moderated by Steven Grundman, the M.A. […]

Russia

Defense Industrialist

Dec 18, 2014

Devolving the Excesses of Jointness

By James Hasik

  Should the US follow the UK’s lead by seeking smaller scale in defense? On Wednesday afternoon the Atlantic Council hosted a talk by Philip Dunne, the British Minister for Defence Equipment, Support, and Technology—the MinDEST. As he himself noted, Dunne is Whitehall’s equivalent of the Pentagon’s Frank Kendall, the Under Secretary of Defense for […]

United Kingdom
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