Kari A. Bingen
Kari A. Bingen is the director of the Aerospace Security Project and a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She joined CSIS from HawkEye 360, an innovative space technology company creating a new class of radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, where she was the chief strategy officer. Prior to the private sector, Kari served as the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security, overseeing the defense intelligence and security enterprises, comprising more than 120,000 personnel and an annual budget of over $54 billion. Before that, Kari served as the policy director on the House Armed Services Committee and staff lead for its Strategic Forces Subcommittee, advising members of Congress on defense policy, program, and budget matters. Prior to entering government, Kari specialized in national security space issues, working with U.S. defense and intelligence community clients, first as a space systems analyst at SRA International’s Adroit C4ISR Center, and then as a senior space policy analyst at the Aerospace Corporation.
In addition to her work at CSIS, Kari is an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University. She is a member of the U.S. Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group, was a commissioner on the CSIS Technology and Intelligence Task Force, and serves on a number of corporate and nonprofit advisory boards. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in aeronautics and astronautics and was a 2002 National Reconnaissance Office technology fellow.
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US-Japan summit preview: Joe Biden and Fumio Kishida expected to raise defence, diplomacy as China looms
Kari A. Bingen in South China Morning Post — April 9, 2024
What are space nukes, the ‘indiscriminate’ satellite weapon raising tensions between Washington and Moscow?
Kari A. Bingen in CNBC — February 22, 2024
U.S. Warns Russia Not to Deploy Nuclear-Armed Space Weapon
Kari A. Bingen in The Wall Street Journal — February 22, 2024
Is This a Sputnik Moment?
Kari A. Bingen and Heather Williams in The New York Times — February 17, 2024
Russia developing 'troubling' new anti-satellite weapon, US says
Kari A. Bingen in BBC — February 15, 2024
How Russia’s alleged nuclear space weapon threatens to radically upend modern life
Kari A. Bingen in New York Post — February 15, 2024
The U.S. is in a new moon race. The winner will set the rules for behaving on the lunar surface.
Kari A. Bingen in Houston Chronicle — February 12, 2024
Russia really wants to stop Ukraine using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
Kari A. Bingen in Business Insider — January 26, 2024
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Space Threat Assessment 2024
Report by Clayton Swope, Kari A. Bingen, Makena Young, Madeleine Chang, Stephanie Songer, and Jeremy Tammelleo — April 17, 2024
Space Threat Assessment 2023
Report by Kari A. Bingen, Kaitlyn Johnson, Makena Young, and John Raymond — April 14, 2023