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CSBA’s van Tol on US Navy Collisions, Avoiding Future Accidents

Capt. Jan van Tol, USN Ret., senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments who commanded a minesweeper, a destroyer and an amphibious assault ship during his career, says the USS John McCain’s capabilities as a destroyer should have allowed it to avoid its Aug. 21, 2017, collision “even at the last moment” and discusses how to break the US Navy’s pattern of accidents during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at CSBA’s Washington headquarters.

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CNAS’ Scharre on Autonomous Weapons, New AI Initiative, Forthcoming Book

Paul Scharre, senior fellow and director of the Center for a New American Security’s Technology and National Security Program, discusses a recent letter from tech industry CEOs to the United Nations calling for a ban on autonomous weapons, CNAS’ new Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Initiative, and his forthcoming book, “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War,” during an Aug. 24, 2017 interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the think tank’s Washington offices.

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Samsung’s Balcik: Smartphones Can Boost ‘Battlefield Awareness’

Christopher Balcik, vice president for federal government business at Samsung Electronics America, discusses how smartphones can improve military readiness, the growing demand for “dual-use” mobile devices that can be used both personally and professionally, the company’s new Galaxy Note8 and smartphone trends during an Aug. 23, 2017, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted during the product’s Washington rollout at the Booz Allen Hamilton Innovation Center.

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Defense & Aerospace Business Report [August 22, 2017]

On this week’s episode of the Defense & Aerospace Business Report, sponsored by Bell Helicopter, a Textron company, we discuss President Donald Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy, how his post-Charlottesville remarks will impact his agenda, the federal budget outlook and the prospects for a government shutdown, Japan’s defense spending increase and the demise of Air Berlin. This week’s guests include Gordon Adams of American University’s School of International Service and the Stimson Center,  Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners and Ron Epstein of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

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AU’s Bensahel: Trump’s New Afghanistan Plan ‘Remarkably Consistent With’ Obama, Bush Strategies

Nora Bensahel, PhD, distinguished scholar in residence at American University’s School of International Service and nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, discusses President Donald Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy, which she calls “remarkably consistent” with those of the Obama and Bush administrations, during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted on Aug. 22, 2017, at American University in Washington.

THINK TANK CENTRAL
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CNAS’ ‘Getting It Righter, Faster: The Role of Prediction in Agile Government Decisionmaking’

In a new report from the Center for a New American Security entitled “Getting It Righter, Faster: The Role of Prediction in Agile Government Decisionmaking,”co-authors Kathryn McNabb Cochran, 2016 CNAS Next Generation National Security Fellow and director of foreign policy research at Good Judgment Inc., and Cmdr. Gregory Tozzi, USCG, CNAS 2016-2017 senior military fellow, 2016-2017,  “outline how the complexity of today’s world underlines the need for agility in government decisionmaking and argue that predictive systems can support agility at multiple decision points in the policymaking process.” “The authors then provide an overview of forecasting methodologies that meet these requirements,” the paper continues.

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CSBA’s ‘Doing What You Know: The United States and 250 Years of Irregular War’

In a new study from the Center for Strategy and Budgetary Assessments entitled “Doing What You Know: The United States and 250 Years of Irregular War,” Dave Johnson, PhD, CSBA senior fellow, analyzes why the United States has been as of yet unable to win the post 9-11 “Global War on Terrorism”  despite its consistent use of  “irregular combat.” “Its military forces, particularly the Army, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Forces, have made significant adaptations after the onset of the insurgency in Iraq following the initial success of conventional operations there in 2003,” he writes. “Yet, victory—achieving the desired political objectives—in Iraq and Afghanistan continues to elude the United States more than fifteen years into the Global War on Terrorism despite significant investments in blood and treasure.” Learn more about the report here.

DoD Lab Day 2017
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US Air Force Research Lab CTO: DoD Must Leverage R&D Innovation from Industry

Morley Stone, PhD, the US Air Force Research Laboratory’s chief technology officer, says the US Defense Department’s “share” of the “research and development ecosystem” is shrinking and that it must “leverage” industry innovation to combat this effect during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Pentagon’s DoD Lab Day 2017.

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US Naval Research Lab’s Thomas on How Laser Communications Can Help Warfighters

Linda Thomas, PhD, a research engineer with the US Naval Research Laboratory, discusses the Defense Optical Channel Program’s research into “optical time transfer and quantum communications,” and how laser communications can aid US troops during an interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Pentagon’s DoD Lab Day 2017. The Defense Optical Channel Program, jointly run by the US Naval Research Laboratory, the US Air Force Research Laboratory, the US Army Research Laboratory and the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command, won a $45 million US Defense Department grant earlier this year to support the research.

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