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Kyiv Missile Attack Meant to ‘Sow Confusion’ and ‘Cause Fear’

BENS President and CEO, General Joseph Votel, USA (Ret.) was interviewed on MSNBC’s Meet The Press to discuss the Russia-Ukraine conflict. General Votel shares perspectives on Ukraine’s most pressing military…

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Washington’s New Crush on Quantum Computing

For years, quantum computing has been the elusive next big thing in technology—a crucial new international scientific battleground; a potential technological jackpot for whoever gets there first. Right now, real-world…

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Budget Reform Can’t Succeed Without Congress

The Department of Defense’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution program has been variously called “a relic of the past,” a “root cause of … bloat” and “the primary factor behind the decline in…

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We Can’t Keep this Crucial Foreign Investment Panel in the Dark

By: General Norton A. Schwartz, USAF (ret.) & Ivan A. Schlager In 1988, Congress codified the creation of CFIUS, the little-known Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. CFIUS,…

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Getting Ahead of the Enemy’s Next Move

Not Just Hardware: Equipping Tomorrow’s Military Requires New Process Not Just New Technology Lasers, drones, and artificial intelligence. The future is bright for brilliant minds working together to engineer the…