The Department of War has just executed the most ambitious acquisition reform in six decades. It scrapped JCIDS — the requirements process that [...]
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Welcome to The Iron Triangle, the Cipher Brief column serving Procurement Officers tasked with buying the future, Investors funding the next [...]
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Welcome to The Iron Triangle, the Cipher Brief column serving Procurement Officers tasked with buying the future, Investors funding the next [...]
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Your phone buzzes with a text from your bank: “Did you authorize a $2,400 transfer? Reply NO to stop it.” You reply, and seconds later a calm “fraud [...]
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Your phone buzzes with a text from your bank: “Did you authorize a $2,400 transfer? Reply NO to stop it.” You reply, and seconds later a calm “fraud [...]
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Five intelligence services rarely speak with one voice. When they warn the window of vulnerability has narrowed to months, the real question is [...]
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Five intelligence services rarely speak with one voice. When they warn the window of vulnerability has narrowed to months, the real question is [...]
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There are 65 active state-based conflicts in the world today, according to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. That is not 65 separate crises. It is [...]
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Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into national security work. That is not a future trend. It is already happening in analysis, collection [...]
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Entrepreneurs realize that speed compresses learning. They know some of their initial assumptions will be wrong or only partially right, so going [...]
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Late last month, the former deputy assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division testified before the House Homeland Security Committee that the [...]
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Authors’ Note:This paper is intended to frame a discussion, not settle one.Too often, debates about intelligence reform begin with organizational [...]
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AI is compressing parts of the intelligence cycle, but modernization is occurring unevenly across collection, analysis, validation, dissemination, [...]
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An impending casualty of artificial intelligence, we are told, is the human spy. The conventional wisdom is that in our AI future, there’s little [...]
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I spent my formative adult years in service to my country—from seventeen to twenty-nine—and the core of how I identify myself remains that of a [...]
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The combination of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and electro-optical reconnaissance is changing modern intelligence collection. What was once a [...]
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Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just BegunWe are witnessing a historic bottleneck in the technology sector. [...]
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Events have moved faster than doctrine. Part 1 of this series diagnosed the rise of synthetic asymmetry, an era where technological convergence [...]
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One of the most consequential geopolitical and technological races underway is the competition to shape the future of large language models. For a [...]
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