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Summary of Findings and Recommendations
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KEY FINDINGS Soldier survivability is a function of protection and other relevant operational factors, such as situational awareness, mobility, and lethality. Throughout histo...
By Paul Scharre, Lauren Fish, Katherine Kidder & Amy Schafer
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Human Performance Enhancement
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Executive Summary No attributes are more foundational to success in combat than the physical and cognitive performance of warfighters. Technological advantage has always playe...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Human Performance Enhancement TEST
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No attributes are more foundational to success in combat than the physical and cognitive performance of warfighters. Technological advantage has always played a central role i...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Emerging Technologies
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Executive Summary Changing the Survivability Paradigm In World War II, being an infantryman was the third deadliest job in the American military, behind bombardiers and submar...
By Paul Scharre, Lauren Fish, Katherine Kidder & Amy Schafer
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The Soldier’s Heavy Load
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Body armor saves lives. Modern body armor has given U.S. troops an unparalleled advantage on the battlefield, improving survivability and reducing casualties. This protection ...
By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre
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The Bottom Line
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Executive Summary 2019 presented a very rare opportunity for the Department of Defense to change the shape of the future joint force: the Trump administration has set a new st...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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Protecting Warfighters from Blast Injury
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Executive Summary Key Findings Hundreds of thousands of servicemembers suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), including from exposure to blasts from improvised ex...
By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre
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Soldier Protection Today
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Introduction The Super Soldiers series examines opportunities to improve dismounted soldier survivability in the near-, mid-, and far-term through changes to policies, improve...
By Lauren Fish & Paul Scharre
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A Strategy for Enhancing Warfighter Survivability
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Introduction Survivability is an essential component of military effectiveness. Militaries have long invested in protection, such as helmets and armor, to improve the survivab...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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Building the Future Force
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Key Takeaways and Next Steps The rates of technological advancement and proliferation are hastening. To understand what this means for the future requires long-term forecastin...
By Shawn Brimley, Jerry Hendrix, Lauren Fish, Adam Routh & Alexander Velez-Green
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2019 President’s Budget Request for Defense
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The 2019 President’s Budget request for the Department of Defense grew by $40 billion over the total requested in 2018.1 We have spent the past four weeks assessing this reque...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President's Budget Request for Defense-wide
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The Defense-wide account, colloquially known as the Fourth Estate, provides funds for all DoD activities that do not fall under one of the military services, including the Off...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President's Budget Request for the Navy and Marine Corps
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The Department of the Navy’s budget request for 2019, which includes both the Navy and the Marine Corps, increased by just under 8 percent over the 2018 president’s budget req...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President’s Budget Request for the Army
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The Army’s budget request saw more growth than any other service relative to the 2018 President’s budget request, gaining $16 billion or about 10 percent.1 With these addition...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President’s Budget Request for the Air Force
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The Air Force 2019 budget requests $194 billion in budget authority, an increase of $10 billion, or about 6 percent, over the fiscal year 2018 request.1 But the challenges the...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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Overview of the 2019 President’s Budget Request for Defense
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The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2019 budget request for the Department of Defense is $686 billion, an increase of $40 billion1 over the president’s fiscal year 2018 req...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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What to Expect in the President’s 2019 Budget Request
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) plans to release President Trump’s fiscal year 2019 budget request on February 12. This budget request is the first that will have be...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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A Brief History of Defense Budget Instability
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The Department of Defense (DoD) has lurched from one budgetary crisis to another for nearly a decade, through a series of continuing resolutions, short-term budget deals, and ...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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Drone Proliferation
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Executive Summary The U.S. monopoly on drones has ended. More than 30 nations already have or are developing armed drones, and at least 90 nations, as well as some non-state a...
By Elisa Catalano Ewers, Lauren Fish, Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre
