The U.S. defense industrial base is at a critical inflection point. The war in Ukraine and the need to prepare for potential future conflicts exposed critical shortfalls in the pace, capacity, and ...

Overall, the U.S. defense industrial base has successfully supported the DoD. The established defense contractors are good at what they do; they work hard to provide the high-quality, complex, and ...

Jason Dempsey is an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Dr. Dempsey has written on American civil-military relations, ...

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On February 17, 2026 Lindsey Ford 1, adjunct senior fellow for the Indo-Pacific Security Program at CNAS was invited to testify in front of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, ...

Partners decide how AI systems are configured and what rules govern their use. But key dependencies underneath that deployment layer—including advanced chips, frontier AI models, and cloud ...

Richard Fontaine is chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He serves concurrently as a member of Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust and as Executive Director of the ...

This article was originally published in Bloomberg.

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