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• Podcast
  • August 24, 2017
  Drones Podcast Series: Military and Non-State Actor Uses of Commercial Drones

  By Jeremy Hsu, Paul Scharre & Alexandra Sander

• Podcast
  • July 26, 2017
  Drones Podcast Series: Drones and the MTCR

  In this episode of the Drones Podcast Series, CNAS experts Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander, and Paul Scharre discuss the Missile Technology Control Regime....

  By Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre

• Podcast
  • July 20, 2017
  Drones Podcast Series: U.S. Policy and Exports

  On this episode, Michael Horowitz, Dan Gettinger, and Alexandra Sander join Paul Scharre to discuss U.S. policy changes on unmanned aircraft exports in recent years....

  By Michael Horowitz, Dan Gettinger, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre

• • Commentary
  • July 19, 2017
  The Rocky Relationship Between Washington & Silicon Valley

  The Trump administration inherited a decent foundation on which to build collaborative ties between Washington and hubs of American innovation like Silicon Valley. Both Presid...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Alexandra Sander & Madeline Christian

• Podcast
  • July 8, 2017
  Drones Podcast Series: Emerging Norms

  Rachel Stohl, a senior associate with Stimson Center's Managing Across Boundaries Initiative, joins CNAS' Paul Scharre and Alexandra Sander to discuss emerging norms for drone...

  By Paul Scharre & Alexandra Sander

• Podcast
  • June 13, 2017
  Drone Proliferation: Policy Choices for the Trump Administration

  Drone experts Dan Gettinger and Alexandra Sander discuss a new report laying out the extent of drone proliferation, providing recommendations to help the Trump administration ...

  By Alexandra Sander, Dan Gettinger & Neal Urwitz

• • Commentary
  • FedTech Magazine
  • May 5, 2017
  The Smart Move for the DOD on Smartphoness

  President Trump’s reluctance to give up his personal smartphone following his inauguration is well documented. It’s also understandable. The highly modified, top secret, certi...

  By Alexandra Sander

• • Commentary
  • The Hill
  • February 27, 2017
  Defense Secretary Mattis has rare, brief chance for Pentagon reform

  In a few days, the Pentagon will submit an interim report to Congress in response to the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) providing an update on Secretary James ...

  By Ben FitzGerald, Alexandra Sander & Madeline Christian

• Podcast
  • February 21, 2017
  Turning AT&L Reorganization into Technical Advantage

  Technology and national security experts Ben FitzGerald and Alexandra Sander discuss a new report recommending the DoD leverage organizational reforms to drive military-techni...

  By Ben FitzGerald, Alexandra Sander & Neal Urwitz

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • July 11, 2016
  Game of Drones: What Happens When Everyone Has Killer Robots?

  At the end of June, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released a report counting U.S. counterterrorism drone strikes outside areas of active hostilities and resultin...

  By Alexandra Sander

• • Commentary
  • March 30, 2016
  Reforming Acquisitions and the Need for Speed

  This month, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, unveiled new acquisition reform legislation. The draft stand-alone bill is noteworthy from a ...

  By Alexandra Sander, Ben FitzGerald & Jacqueline Parziale

• • Commentary
  • December 4, 2015
  Opinion: Cybersecurity collaboration needs a toolkit. So we built a prototype

  Financial sector institutions from the US and Britain tested their cybersecurity cooperation last month in a joint exercise, dubbed operation Resilient Shield. The table-top e...

  By Alexandra Sander & Ben FitzGerald

• • Commentary
  • May 12, 2015
  Third Offset Tech: What the Experts Say

  What types of capabilities and technologies are suitable for a third offset strategy? This was the hotly debated question at a recent off-the-record session hosted by the Cent...

  By Alexandra Sander