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To ensure US AI leadership, the United States must harness all forms of energy, allow a level playing field, and remove red tape constraining the buildout of critical enablers, especially transmission lines and grid enhancing technologies.
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How the Houthis’ strikes on US MQ-9 Reaper drones serve a wider regional agenda

By Leonardo Jacopo Maria Mazzucco

The United States needs to adjust its drone deployment strategy to ensure that MQ-9 Reapers are less vulnerable to the militant group’s attacks. 
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What’s missing from the AI debate? Patience.

By Trey Herr

The AI sector is evolving quickly, fueled by a self-reinforcing cycle of investment, commentary, and ambition. In this race for compute, patience is important to sorting out sustainable innovation from speculative excess.
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The Atlantic Council Technology Programs comprises five existing efforts—the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), the GeoTech Center, the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, the Democracy + Tech Initiative, and the Capacity Building Initiative. These operations work together to address the geopolitical implications of technology and provide policymakers and global stakeholders necessary research, insights, and convenings to address challenges around global technology and ensure its responsible advancement.

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Cyber 9/12 Project

Dec 8, 2011

The Cyber 9/12 Project

On December 8, the Atlantic Council and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) hosted an all-day, scenario-driven, interactive conference to discuss the day-after response to a transatlantic cyber incident held at the International Spy Museum. During off-the-record panel sessions, representatives from various sectors, including US and foreign governments, and information and communication technology companies, discussed the […]

Cybersecurity

NATOSource

Nov 30, 2011

Can NATO Adapt to Cyber Warfare?

By Robin Tim Weis, FrumForum

From Robin Tim Weis, FrumForum:  What is the likelihood that NATO would invoke Article Five–NATO’s collective defense clause–in response to a cyber attack? The possibility first entered media discourse back in October 2010 when the German Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on an internal memo in which NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed the use of Article […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Nov 26, 2011

Pakistan stops NATO supplies after raid kills up to 28

By Shams Momand, Reuters

From Shams Momand, Reuters:  NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis.

Drones Technology & Innovation

NATOSource

Nov 18, 2011

Norway hit by major data-theft attack

By the AP

From the AP:  Data from Norway’s oil and defense industries may have been stolen in what is feared to be one of the most extensive data espionage cases in the country’s history, security officials said Thursday.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Nov 17, 2011

Pentagon warns of cyber and kinetic retaliation to significant cyber attack against the US

By Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring

From Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring:  The president is ready to approve military cyberattacks or "kinetic" bombing raids in response to major cyberattacks on the United States, according to a Pentagon report to Congress.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Nov 16, 2011

U.S. joining NATO’s fight against cyber threats

By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

From John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes:  The United States will join the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence during a formal ceremony scheduled for Thursday at the center’s headquarters in Estonia, a country that experienced a massive cyber attack that disabled websites of numerous government institutions in 2007.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Nov 14, 2011

Fleet of U.S. drones now based in Turkey

By Greg Jaffe, Checkpoint Washington

From Greg Jaffe, Checkpoint Washington:  The U.S. military has begun flying unarmed Predator drones out of a Turkish air base as part of a joint Turkish-American counterterrorism operation in northern Iraq, according to a senior defense official.

Drones Technology & Innovation

NATOSource

Nov 14, 2011

NATO “agencies and commands under a single cyber defense roof by the end of 2012”

By Julian Hale, Defense News

From Julian Hale, Defense News:  Maj. Gen. Patrick Fermier, director of NATO C3 Staff, dodged a question about whether there was a need to improve cyber offensive capacity to improve cyber defense.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense
The Changing Significance of Geography: from Cyber Space to Outer Space, and the Spaces in Between

Event Recap

Nov 14, 2011

The Changing Significance of Geography: from Cyber Space to Outer Space, and the Spaces in Between

By Adrienne Chuck

On Monday November 14th, the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative and the US National Intelligence Council hosted an all-day roundtable workshop entitled “The Changing Significance of Geography: from Cyber Space to Outer Space, and the Spaces in Between”.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

NATOSource

Nov 12, 2011

Cyber-warfare is coming

By Ilmar Tamm, Public Service Europe

From Ilmar Tamm, Public Service Europe:  Various states have managed to agree on laws that govern borders, international sea and air space, even outer space – but now we are faced with the task of adapting or creating laws and precedents for cyberspace.

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