America runs on GPS. It needs a backup plan
Most Americans think GPS merely provides directions: open the map, follow the blue dot and get where you need to go. But that’s just the consumer application. The national security applications of GPS...
Global Positioning System
Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran
Iran is reading American service members’ social media feeds to deadly effect. The fact is that not all intelligence must be gleaned from secret, closed sources for it to be effective, and Tehran...
Op-eds
Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems
Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors
Legislative Testimonies
Space Modernization for the 21st Century
Public Comments
USDA Releases Plan to Protect U.S. Agriculture From Cyber Threats and Chinese Intrusions
Washington is moving to block China and other adversaries from buying U.S. farmland and hacking our food supply. On July 8, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its National Farm Security...
Policy Briefs
CSC 2.0 Report on Military Mobility
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Media Calls
Laser Focus: Countering China’s LiDAR Threat to U.S. Critical Infrastructure and Military Systems
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Memos
The Despotic Duo
Russo-Iranian Cooperation and Threats to U.S. Interests
Legislative Testimonies
Time to designate space systems as critical infrastructure
The bottom line? The Executive Branch must designate space systems as a critical infrastructure sector and Congress must provide the Sector Risk Management Agency (SRMA) with the resources needed to execute the mission.
Op-eds
China, Russia Deepen Partnership on Satellite Navigation
China and Russia signed contracts late last month to host ground stations for their respective global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), BeiDou and GLONASS, which are alternatives to the U.S.-run Global...
Policy Briefs
How Many Seconds in a Second? Why Keeping Time on Computers Is Hard and Why It Matters
Memos
German Jews urge Green Party MP to resign from ‘antisemitic’ BDS group
Last year, the Bild paper in Germany said Green Party member Claudia Roth made “antisemitism socially respectable” by enthusiastically meeting with the head of Iran’s quasi-Parliament Ali Larijani.
Op-eds
Do We Really Need a State Department — and Does Anyone in It Own a Copy of the Constitution?
I thought I had seen it all a while back when we caught the federal Transportation Security Adminis...
Op-eds
Pirates of Somalia: The Curse of the Failed State
On April 4, MY Le Ponant, an 850-ton three-masted luxury sailing yacht owned by CMA CGM S.A., a French firm headed by Lebanese-born businessman Jacques Saadé that is the third-largest container shipping company in the world, was en route from the Seychelles to the Mediterranean when it was seized in international waters in the Gulf of Aden by Somali pirates. A week later, after the owners had paid a ransom reported to be around $2 million, Le Ponant docked at the port of Eyl in the semi-autonomous northeastern region of Puntland and the 30 crew members – twenty-two Frenchmen, six Filipinos, a Cameroonian, and a Ukrainian – were released. French forces, however, tracked the attackers to the nearby fishing village of Jariban where helicopter-borne commandos disabled the escape vehicle with sniper fire and seized six of what is thought to have been an original band of twelve fugitives. The six prisoners were flown to Paris where they were arraigned before a French court on charges of theft, hijacking, and hostage-taking.