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Measuring Service Contract Performance
September 18, 2020 | Andrew Philip Hunter, Gregory Sanders Services account for over 41 percent of DoD contract obligations. This CSIS report looks at a million contracts to evaluate how three factors influence performance: service complexity, contract-management capacity, and vendor’s history working with a DoD contracting.

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The Tactics and Targets of Domestic Terrorists
July 30, 2020 | Seth G. Jones, Catrina Doxsee, Nicholas Harrington With rising concerns about domestic terrorism, this analysis examines trends in terrorist tactics and targets in the United States. It compiles and analyzes an original CSIS data set of terrorist attacks in the United States between January 1, 1994, and May 8, 2020.

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The Collection Edge: Harnessing Emerging Technologies for Intelligence Collection
July 13, 2020 Amidst evolving threat environments and changing national security priorities, U.S. and allied intelligence collection organizations can leverage emerging technologies to improve how intelligence is gathered, processed, and exploited for operations.

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The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States
June 17, 2020 | Seth G. Jones, Catrina Doxsee, Nicholas Harrington The United States faces a growing terrorism problem that will likely worsen in the next year, particularly around the 2020 presidential election. The most significant threat likely comes from white supremacists, though anarchists and religious extremists could also pose a threat.

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The Air Force of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Force Structures
October 29, 2019 | Todd Harrison This CSIS ASP report compares, contrasts, and critiques three congressionally mandated studies of the Air Force’s future force structure. This analysis only considers the unclassified material released to provide an independent assessment of the current state of the Air Force.

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Axis Rising: Iran’s Evolving Regional Strategy and Non-State Partnerships in the Middle East
October 11, 2018 In this new CSIS brief, the author explores the evolution of Iran’s relationship with its affiliated groups from “axis of resistance” to an “alliance” in the region and how this fundamental shift poses complex challenges for U.S. policymakers and regional allies.

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Unmanned Aerial Systems' Influences on Conflict Escalation Dynamics
August 2, 2018 | John Schaus, Kaitlyn Johnson

As more UAS operate in conflict areas, more incidents of attack or defense will involve said systems. This CSIS Brief details how escalation and deterrence dynamics change with the increasing use of UAS in conflict areas and examines several cases of how these dynamics might...


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Counting Dollars or Measuring Value
July 3, 2018 | Kathleen H. Hicks, Seamus P. Daniels

Although the transatlantic security community actively debates the merits of the 2 percent measure, it has not identified an alternative measure or set of measures to adopt instead. This report seeks to catalyze that political and analytical discussion of alternatives by...


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Impact of Sequestration and the Drawdown on the Different Sectors of the Industrial Base
December 15, 2017 | Andrew Philip Hunter, Rhys McCormick, Gregory Sanders

The United States has long recognized the importance of supporting and sustaining an advanced defense industrial base for maintaining global technological superiority.

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Options for the Ground-Based Leg of the Nuclear Triad
September 21, 2017 | Todd Harrison

The Air Force is on the cusp of beginning a new major defense acquisition program (MDAP) to replace the ground-based leg of the nuclear triad.

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U.S.-Canadian Defense Industrial Cooperation
June 30, 2017 | Andrew Philip Hunter, Gregory Sanders

This study evaluates the health of the U.S.-Canadian defense industrial relationship, which is critically important as the U.S. Department of Defense expands the national technology and industrial base.

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Defense Strategy and the Iron Triangle of Painful Trade-offs
June 22, 2017 | Kathleen H. Hicks

The Department of Defense (DoD) has begun its development of a new defense strategy, and outside observers are atwitter, or should I say, aTwitter.

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