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Homeland Explosive Consequence and Threat Tool: HEXCAT

Homeland Explosive Consequence and Threat Tool:...

HExCAT is an explosive hazard modeling tool that estimates the potential impact and consequences of an explosion, including severity and types of injures, effectiveness of response, choke points and building…

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Drug Enforcement Administration: National Drug Threat Assessment 2024

Drug Enforcement Administration: National Drug...

The 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA) highlights the dangerous shift from plant-based drugs to synthetic drugs. This annual assessment provides law enforcement agencies, policy makers, and prevention and treatment…

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Use of Force in Cyberspace

Use of Force in Cyberspace

There are presently no internationally accepted criteria for determining whether a nation-state cyberattack is a use of force equivalent to an armed attack, which could trigger a military response. Likewise,…

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The Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle Program

The Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle Program

The Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) is being developed as part of the Army’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) family of vehicles. As originally planned, the Army intended to develop three…

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June 2024 Weapon Systems Annual Assessment

June 2024 Weapon Systems Annual Assessment

To deliver more timely and effective solutions to the warfighter, the Department of Defense (DOD) revamped its department-wide acquisition policies in 2020. These policy changes responded to long-standing concerns that…

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Threat Hunting Done Right

Threat Hunting Done Right

At a time when many security leaders see their teams struggling to keep pace with their organization’s threat detection and response needs, proactive threat hunting often becomes a goal that…

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Mitigating Cyber Threats with Limited Resources: Guidance for Civil Society

Mitigating Cyber Threats with Limited Resources:...

This joint guide, developed as part of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s High-Risk Community Protection initiative and National Cyber Security Centre-UK’s Defending Democracy campaign, provides mitigation measures for civil society…

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Resilient Advanced Manufacturing: Deployable Metal DED Technology

Resilient Advanced Manufacturing: Deployable Metal...

The evolving landscape of modern warfare and industrial operations has placed a premium dependable and efficient manufacturing solutions. Snowbird Technologies addresses these challenges with innovative additive manufacturing, revolutionizing defense logistics…

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FY2024 National Security Supplemental Funding: Defense Appropriations

FY2024 National Security Supplemental Funding:...

On October 20, 2023, the Biden Administration submitted to Congress a request for FY2024 emergency supplemental appropriations to address “key national security priorities.” President Biden characterized the request as a…

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Sustaining Our People Advantage in Data Centric Warfare

Sustaining Our People Advantage in Data Centric...

The speed of change in all aspects of technology, from artificial intelligence to robotics, makes it difficult to predict what a conflict will look like in the future, but we…

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Israel and Hamas Conflict In Brief: Overview, U.S. Policy, and Options for Congress

Israel and Hamas Conflict In Brief: Overview, U.S....

The apparent intelligence and operational failures in preventing the assault or limiting its impact have become a subject of debate in Israel and elsewhere. Some analysts have said that Israel…

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Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community

Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence...

This report reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providing the nuanced, independent, and unvarnished intelligence that policymakers, warfighters, and domestic law…

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Brittle and Brutal: An Avoidable 2024 Civil Military Relations Forecast

Brittle and Brutal: An Avoidable 2024 Civil...

The historically high public confidence of the American public in the U.S. military has steadily dropped over the past few decades, trending toward the all-time lows of the 1970s and…

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America’s Call to Duty

America’s Call to Duty

America faces a national security crisis in fielding a sustainable, formidable military force. This was foreseeable at the inception of the all-volunteer force and requires swift action. Over the fifty…

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FM – 30: A Step Forward in Approaching Operational Art

FM – 30: A Step Forward in Approaching Operational...

The Army in 2023 finds itself in a unique position. The 2022 National Defense Strategy prioritizes China as the number one pacing threat, with Russia as the number two acute…

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