Defense and National Security Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/defense/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:34:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Defense and National Security Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/defense/ 32 32 Where Are the Moonshots? https://issues.org/moonshots-artificial-intelligence-technological-republic-laforge/ https://issues.org/moonshots-artificial-intelligence-technological-republic-laforge/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46537 Gordon LaForge reviews “The Technological Republic” by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska.

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]]> https://issues.org/moonshots-artificial-intelligence-technological-republic-laforge/feed/ 0 How Dual Use Puts Research Under the Microscope https://issues.org/dual-use-collaboration-markussen/ https://issues.org/dual-use-collaboration-markussen/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45581 A recent case in Norway demonstrates how dual-use controls can constrict international scientific collaboration without offering commensurate protections.

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]]> https://issues.org/dual-use-collaboration-markussen/feed/ 0 Let Rocket Scientists Be Rocket Scientists: A New Model to Help Hardware Start-ups Scale https://issues.org/rocket-scientists-hardware-startups-scale-burer/ https://issues.org/rocket-scientists-hardware-startups-scale-burer/#respond Wed, 22 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41992 For hardware start-up companies, growth can be dangerous. Scaling up production, coupled with expanding physical space to meet quickly rising production targets, is a challenge unique to companies that make complex physical… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/rocket-scientists-hardware-startups-scale-burer/feed/ 0 When Farmland Becomes the Front Line, Satellite Data and Analysis Can Fight Hunger https://issues.org/satellite-data-nasa-harvest-ukraine-becker-reshef-mitkish/ https://issues.org/satellite-data-nasa-harvest-ukraine-becker-reshef-mitkish/#respond Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41019 It is difficult to predict exactly how events like extreme weather, pandemics, conflict, and politics will disrupt global food systems and cause people to go hungry. The destabilizing impacts of the COVID-19… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/satellite-data-nasa-harvest-ukraine-becker-reshef-mitkish/feed/ 0 AI Aids the Pretense of Military “Precision” https://issues.org/ai-pretense-military-precision-suchman/ https://issues.org/ai-pretense-military-precision-suchman/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:33:09 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41181 Artificial intelligence is the latest promise of a technological solution to the intractable “fog of war.” In Ukraine and Gaza, enthusiasts have proclaimed the advent of AI-driven warfighting. In October 2023, Ukrainian… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/ai-pretense-military-precision-suchman/feed/ 0 What Ukraine Can Teach the World About Resilience and Civil Engineering https://issues.org/ukraine-resilient-engineering-infrastructure-armanios-christensen-tymoshenko/ https://issues.org/ukraine-resilient-engineering-infrastructure-armanios-christensen-tymoshenko/#respond Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=40280 When Russian airstrikes cut off water to 80% of Kyiv at the end of October 2022, utility workers were able to restore the flow within 24 hours. Against a steady barrage of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/ukraine-resilient-engineering-infrastructure-armanios-christensen-tymoshenko/feed/ 0 Innovation’s New Catechism https://issues.org/innovation-new-catechism-margonelli/ https://issues.org/innovation-new-catechism-margonelli/#respond Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=39552 Since the mid-1970s, DARPA, the oft-copied Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has used a series of eight questions to steer investment decisions. What are you trying to do? Who cares? If you… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/innovation-new-catechism-margonelli/feed/ 0 Academia’s Openness Could Strengthen its Partnerships With the Intelligence Community https://issues.org/academia-openness-partnerships-intelligence-community-schiffer-chang/ https://issues.org/academia-openness-partnerships-intelligence-community-schiffer-chang/#respond Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=39548 Starting with Vannevar Bush’s seminal 1945 report, Science, the Endless Frontier, the federal government has invested significantly in support of fundamental research at universities across all areas of science and engineering.… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/academia-openness-partnerships-intelligence-community-schiffer-chang/feed/ 0 The Precarious Balance Between Research Openness and Security https://issues.org/precarious-balance-research-diplomacy-colglazier/ https://issues.org/precarious-balance-research-diplomacy-colglazier/#respond Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=38759 Amid increasing competition and conflict with countries such as China, calls to restrict international scientific cooperation overlook benefits to the United States.

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]]> https://issues.org/precarious-balance-research-diplomacy-colglazier/feed/ 0 What the Ukraine-Russia War Means for South Korea’s Defense R&D https://issues.org/ukraine-russia-war-south-koreas-defense-rd-jeong-seo-heo/ https://issues.org/ukraine-russia-war-south-koreas-defense-rd-jeong-seo-heo/#respond Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=37960 South Koreans are watching the war between Russia and Ukraine not as a far-off conflict, but as a possible model for future power struggles in East Asia—especially in the context of increasing… Read More

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