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  • Nate Fick Confirmed to Lead State Department Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy

    In April, The State Department launched a new cybersecurity bureau, designed to enhance digital diplomacy and online standards around the world. Last week, the Senate confirmed Nate Fick as the first person to lead the new Bureau as the first State Department Ambassador-at-Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy. Fick is familiar to the OODA Loop…

  • Signals from Mainstream Information Outlets on Digital Self-Sovereignty, Digital Rights and Digital Identity

    We continue our research on  Digital Self-Sovereignty, Digital Rights, and Digital Identity, which is an area of research concerned with the security of personal data, transactional or otherwise, and the individual’s right to ownership of their personal data. In the last few months, a signal-to-noise ratio has emerged on this topic, where previously there was…

  • A Proactive National Technology Strategy in the Great Power Competition with China

    The co-authors of a recent article in Foreign Affairs, America Could Lose the Tech Contest With China, Eric Schmidt and Yll Bajraktari, are Chair and CEO of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), respectively. The SCSP “builds on the work of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), which ended its congressionally-mandated work in October…

  • The Stanford Internet Observatory and Covert Influence Operations

    With the technological infrastructure that physicists and astronomers have brought to bear for decades as its foundational metaphor, the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) was launched two years ago to create an equally as powerful social sciences-based “Observatory” for internet researchers. We analyze the SIO’s latest offering, in partnership with Graphika:  the August 24th release of…

  • Opportunities for Advantage: Reshoring Manufacturing and Shortening Supply Chains

    Future Typhoons.  Future Covid-19 Lockdowns.  Future Pandemics. Future Climate Crises Impacts.  Future Wars.  All of it adds up to a clear incentive structure for American businesses to reshore manufacturing and shorten supply chains. 

  • Global Crypto and Digital Currency Initiatives: Pakistan

    We continue with our survey of crypto and digital currency initiatives from around the globe, all of which are officially sanctioned to enhance national competitive advantage (in the event crypto overtakes the US dollar as the global reserve currency).  It is the cumulative adoption rate of state-sanctioned crypto and digital currency legalization and regulation that…

  • Chinese Cyber Espionage Against Russia Is About Keeping Tabs and Learning

    Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage is nothing notable as Beijing has been long engaged in the most expansive cyber-enabled data theft operation for the past decade.  However, its recent activities targeting Russia’s military industries is rather novel and not widespread.  What’s more, this is not the first Chinese APT actor that has brazenly targeted its close…

  • Autonomous Everything: The Workforce and The Future of Automated Port Terminals

    In a series of posts entitled Autonomous Everything, we are exploring automation in all its technological forms, including legacy working assumptions about the term itself.  We began the series in June at the bleeding edge of autonomous vehicles, with a description of the first autonomous ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. But autonomy is not…

  • The Future of Food Security: The Precision Farming Project and NASA Harvest

    Following are case studies of current, state-of-the-art advanced computational platforms – specifically computer graphics, multi-player networking, and high-resolution,  satellite-based earth imaging – currently deployed to impact the future of agriculture and food security.

  • Global Crypto and Digital Currency Initiatives: Vietnam

    We continue with our survey of crypto and digital currency initiatives from around the globe, all of which are officially sanctioned to enhance national competitive advantage (in the event crypto overtakes the US dollar as the global reserve currency).  It is the cumulative adoption rate of state-sanctioned crypto and digital currency legalization and regulation that…


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