Defense Program is pleased to welcome the Honorable Cara Abercrombie as an adjunct senior fellow. Abercrombie served for more than two decades in the Department of Defense as a civil servant, ...

Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

Vivek Chilukuri, senior fellow and program director at the Center for a New American Security, joined POLITICO Policy Outlook to discuss the geopolitical implications of 6G, the potential military and ...

Two years prior, Zhu had been arrested and indicted for his involvement with a similarly unauthorized biolab in Reedley, California. He also maintains extensive connections to the Chinese Communist ...

Twice in the past five months, the U.S. Congress has allowed the authorization for U.S. cyber threat intelligence sharing to lapse. In each case, it managed only short-term extensions for this pillar ...

AI Chips for China With two new policies, President Donald Trump has implemented his pledge to allow sales of NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips to China in exchange for a quarter of the ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has told the world that “we don’t need to worry about it.” I disagree—the security situation in the Strait is a source of immense worry, ...

Paul Scharre joins Emily and Geoff to talk about how commercial markets for AI might evolve and how different market outcomes may mean different types of risks for U.S. national security interests.

Timely action can ensure the United States secures the economic and national security benefits of the coming quantum era.

While Iran is focused on survival: the leadership can rebound and rebuild as long as Iran’s political system, military structure and economic foundations remain intact. Watch the full interview on ...

Disrupted energy flows are a major worry for the global economy. Iran knows that. And today, it has learnt that disrupting the Strait is easy and relatively cheap: low effort, high impact.

In June 2024, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced it was stepping back into the nuclear reactor business when the Army launched its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) program, a ...