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Special Report: Hurricane Irma
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In Part 1 of his interview with Defense & Aerospace Report, Maj. Gen. Ed Jackson, Jr., US Army, deputy commanding general for civil and emergency operations at the US Army Corps of Engineers, discusses USACE’s role in disaster preparedness, its post-Hurricane-Irma damage-assessment and recovery efforts in US Caribbean territories, and steps it’s taking to prepare for the storm’s imminent landfall in the continental US.  The interview was conducted on Sept. 7, 2017, in USACE’s command center, located at its national headquarters in Washington.

COMDEF 2017
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In Part 1 of a multi-part interview with Defense & Aerospace Report, Camille Grand, NATO assistant secretary general for defence investment, identifies priorities for NATO’s planned 2018 ministerial meeting in Brussels, Belgium — including revamping its “command structure” and procurement so that it can “act at the speed of relevance.” The interview was conducted on Sept. 6, 2017, during the 2017 ComDef conference at the National Press Club in Washington.

THINK TANK CENTRAL
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A Sept. 6, 2017, report assembled by a 10-person team of Atlantic Council experts and entitled the “State Department Reform Report,” examines the institution’s “structure and process, personnel, budget, congressional relations, and USAID,” according to a press release, and offers reform recommendations in each of these areas. “The report serves as a foundation for reform efforts that will lead to the empowerment of the State Department at a time when a rapidly evolving global environment consistently poses new challenges and threats,” the release reads. “The department’s role is indeed unique and vital in the US national security apparatus; diplomacy based in continued and robust support for US interests and values is critical to favorable long-term outcomes, including a more secure and stable global environment.”

COMDEF 2017
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Maj. Gen. Larry Martin, Jr., USAF, deputy under secretary of the US Air Force, international affairs, says the service is committed to supporting the defense capabilities of Japan and South Korea and emphasizes the strength of US international security partnerships in a Sept. 6, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian during the 2017 ComDef conference, held at the National Press Club in Washington.

VIDEOS
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Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Alabama, House Strategic Forces Subcommittee chairman, says the formation of a “Space Corps” within the US Air Force would make space dominance an equal priority to air dominance and speed up acquisitions, identifies goals for the proposed service and more during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted during the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ “How to Organize Military Space” symposium on Sept. 6, 2017, in Washington.

THINK TANK CENTRAL
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In an Aug. 23, 2017, report from the Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Preventive Action entitled “Managing Global Disorder: Prospects for U.S.-Russian Cooperation,” participants from a June 2017 workshop on the same topic identify “threats to world order and perspectives on global norms” and areas where Russia and the US might be able to work together. They also offer a set of recommendations for improving relations between the two nations that touch on NATO, cybersecurity and more. “The workshop was held at the Tufts University European Center in Talloires, France, and was made possible by the support of Carnegie Corporation of New York,” they write.

VIDEOS
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Amb. Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, says missile technology and nuclear weapons development go hand-in-hand during a Sept. 5, 2017, speech on the Iran nuclear deal at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Amb. Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, says missile technology and nuclear weapons development go hand-in-hand during a Sept. 5, 2017, speech on the Iran nuclear deal at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. She broaches the topic while discussing UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which  she said deals with the Iran’s “non-nuclear” infractions — including ballistic missile development and testing, despite the capacity for such weapons to carry nuclear warheads.

THINK TANK CENTRAL
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In an August 2017 report from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution published as part of its Aegis Series, author Ben Buchanan, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Cybersecurity Project, argues that the US government’s “Nobody But Us” (or NOBUS) approach to signals intelligence — in which communications are designed to be indecipherable by any method that isn’t exclusive to US parties —  is losing effectiveness due to “increasingly sophisticated” enemies. According to Buchanan, the report “outlines the ways in which the United States can and does exploit structural or asymmetric advantages in capability or access to enable NOBUS methods,”  “examines how current trends make NOBUS solutions harder to find and use,” and “articulates some ideas for a potential path forward, though it acknowledges there is no easy answer.”

Full Coverage: Atlantic Council's Herbst on Ukraine, Afghanistan
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Amb. John Herbst, director of the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center and former US ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan, says President Donald Trump’s proposed troop surge won’t turn the tide in Afghanistan and that self-imposed limitations on manpower and funding make a US victory there impossible during an Aug. 29, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the organization’s offices in Washington.

PODCASTS
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On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report podcast, sponsored by Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, we discuss United Technologies’ acquisition of Rockwell Collins, North Korea’s latest suspected nuclear test, the impact of a weakening US dollar on the defense industry, the potential defense impacts of Tropical Storm Harvey and more. This week’s guests include Nora Bensahel of American University’s School of International Service and the Atlantic Council, Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners, Ron Epstein of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Sash Tusa of Agency Partners.

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