Category: Content Series

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.

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:

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 […]

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.

Brazil Welcomes Education Innovation

By Gabriel Sanchez Zinny

Education systems across Latin America are taking steps towards allowing more innovation – some more, some less. But in the case of Brazil, the arrival of innovative new actors is looking more like an invasion.

Brummer Testimony on Financial Regulation and US Competitiveness

By Chris Brummer

Chris Brummer, C. Boyden Gray fellow with the Council’s Global Business & Economics Program, submitted a written testimony for a House Financial Services Committee hearing on financial regulation and US competitiveness.

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 […]