Category: Content Series

One Engine or Two for Canada?

By James Hasik

The hard work of evaluating the suitability of the CF-35A Professor Michael Byers of the University of British Columbia has produced a report for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on the presumed preference of Harper Government for the F-35A Lightning II as the next fighter jet for the Royal Canadian Air Force. The title summarizes the argument: “One Dead Pilot: Single-Engine F-35 […]

TTIP Action: June 10

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

TTIP Action: June 5

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Money and Organization, or Rules and Norms?

By James Hasik

What limits the diffusion of dangerous weapons technologies to bad actors? Last week the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released its report Creative Disruption: Technology, Strategy, and the Future of the Global Defense Industry. My colleague Steve Grundman, our Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges, served on the panel that informed the work of authors Ben Fitzgerald […]

SpaceX President Speaks of Need to Rebuild US Dominance in Space

By Gwynne Shotwell

The Washington Post features the Brent Scowcroft Center of International Security’s event with President and COO of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell:

Atlantic Council Event with SpaceX President Featured

By Gwynne Shotwell

NASA Spaceflight featured the Atlantic Council’s event with the President and COO of SpaceX Gwynne Shotwell:

Where are the Robo-Frigates?

By James Hasik

How SAIC and Rolls Royce could disrupt the shipbuilding business. As I wrote last week, DARPA’s war on costs is an effort in technology, funding potentially “powerful new approaches” in armaments, sensors, navigation and communications, aimed at radically decreasing the cost of fielding the next generation of weapon systems. What may be less obvious is just how commercially disruptive those technological developments […]

Cyber Statecraft Report Cited in Warning About Cloud Services

Computer World cites a recent report published by the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, warning of vulnerabilities to critical infrastructure should web-based cloud services be compromised:

Webcast: Atlantic Council Captains of Industry with Gwynne Shotwell

Please join us on June 4, 2014 from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. for the latest event in the Atlantic Council Captains of Industry series, a discussion with SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell on the company’s ongoing efforts to support commercial, civil, and national security customers with All-American launch services and the challenges […]