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Mar 11, 2014

Mezran on Dismissal of Libyan Prime Minister

By Karim Mezran

Christian Science Monitor quotes Rafik Hariri Center Senior Fellow Karim Mezran about the dismissal of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan:

Defense Industrialist

Mar 7, 2014

Productivity before platforms

By August Cole

For the Pentagon, reducing the cost of big systems will be only half the battle. In technology, as in air-to-air combat, speed can be everything. Yet even as fifth-generation fighters such as the F-22 push the aeronautical envelope, America’s military is struggling to keep up with a disorienting worldwide acceleration of technological development that it […]

Defense Industry Economy & Business

LatAmSource

Mar 6, 2014

Mexico: A Year of Transformation

By Ambassador Eduardo Medina Mora

Anyone following recent events in Mexico knows that 2013 was a year of unprecedented reforms in my country. As part of a broad agreement between the three main political parties called the Pacto Por México, President Peña Nieto and the Mexican Congress were able to pass legislation that included reforms to energy, education, telecoms, transparency, […]

Latin America Mexico

Defense Industrialist

Mar 6, 2014

How NATO Can Help Rebuild Ukraine’s Defenses

By James Hasik

Ukraine is the world’s fourth-largest arms exporter. That isn’t useful right now against Russia, but it may be someday. News from Crimea over the past month has been endlessly surprising, but often missed is a surprising industrial fact: Ukraine currently ranks as the world’s fourth-largest arms exporter. The local industry had a blowout year in 2012 […]

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Captains of Industry Series

Mar 5, 2014

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.

Emerging Defense Challenges

Mar 5, 2014

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:

Captains of Industry Series

Mar 5, 2014

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 […]

Captains of Industry Series

Mar 5, 2014

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.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

LatAmSource

Mar 4, 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.

Brazil

Defense Industrialist

Mar 4, 2014

For Faster R&D, Restore Rivalry and Realism.

By James Hasik

In AvWeek, Bill Sweetman pines for another Polaris program. Here’s how to recapture the magic.  In last week’s issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Bill Sweetman observes (“Does the Pentagon give contractors an incentive for slow R&D?”) how the same US Defense Department that had put a nuclear submarine to sea with sixteen long-range nuclear-tipped ballistic […]