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Quality and Patient Safety Review Processes in Military Treatment Facilities and Operational Clinical Services

The People’s Liberation Army Navy’s Approach to Maintenance Management: Cooking Dumplings in a Teapot

Insights and Tools to Improve the Applicant Experience with the Personnel Vetting and Security Clearance Process

Personnel Vetting 101 Applicant Toolkit: Frequently Asked Questions and Common Misperceptions

Understanding Partner Preferences in the Selection of Defense Capabilities: Case Studies Exploring the Selection of Alternatives to U.S. Solutions

Setting Special and Incentive Pay Policy in the U.S. Military: An Analytic Framework

Flagpole to Front Lines: A Warfighter-Driven Requirements Process

Navigating Duality in Space: Establishing a Foundational Understanding of Dual-Use Space Activities

Battle Damage Repair for Arleigh Burke–Class Destroyers: Tabletop Exercise Results

Challenges When Collaborating with China on Space Research and Technology: Common Practices and Risks

Preparing the Homeland for Great-Power Conflict: WEST ROOK

Independent Assessment of the Defense Business Enterprise Architecture

Optimizing Defense Requirements Cooperation Among the United States and Its Allies

Force Multipliers in the Americas: Harnessing Security Force Assistance to Bolster Homeland Defense and U.S. Strategic Objectives in Latin America

China's Science and Technology Strategy in Perspective: Historical Evolution, Political Drivers, and Global Implications

Evaluating Large Language Models' Abilities to Process and Understand Technical Policy Reports

The Survivor Benefit Plan Optional Child Annuity Repeal: Impacts and Adverse Effects

Realizing the Promise of the Drone Revolution: Crosscutting Insights from RAND Research for the U.S. Department of War's Drone Dominance Efforts and Beyond

China Plans for 'Total War': Developing the Capacity to Defeat the 'Strong Enemy' of the United States

Fiscal Year 2025 Assessment of the Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project

AI Implications for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Policy and Programs: A Strategic Analytic Research Agenda

National Guard Youth ChalleNGe: Program Progress in 2024–2025

Research Security in Science and Technology

Implications of Chinese Influence Operations for South Korea and the US-ROK Alliance

Integrating Innovation into U.S. Department of War Requirements Reform

Workforce Modeling at the Defense Contract Management Agency Provides Useful Estimates and Can Be Improved

The Defense Contract Management Agency's Resource Workload Model Ecosystem: A Basis for Enhanced Warfighter Support

Tactical Will to Fight Assessment Guide: A How-To Manual for Conducting Tactical Will to Fight Assessments

Assessing the Practical Feasibility of the Clader-Jacobs-Sprouse Quantum Algorithm for Calculating Radar Cross Sections

Judge Reliability Harness

Pursuing Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Gaza: A Critical Pathway to a Durable Peace

Europe’s Next War: The Rising Risk of NATO-Russia Conflict

Russia in the High North: Russian Strategy and Escalation Risks in the High North After the Russia-Ukraine War

Export Controls on Artificial Intelligence and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems: Interagency Challenges

AI Security Guide and Risk Assessment Tool

Surveying Duality in Space: Volume II, Europe-Eurasia Workshop Insights on Developing, Deploying, and Governing Dual-Use Space Systems

Surveying Duality in Space: Volume III, Indo-Pacific Workshop Insights on Developing, Deploying, and Governing Dual-Use Space Systems

Surveying Duality in Space: Volume I, Americas Workshop Insights on Developing, Deploying, and Governing Dual-Use Space Systems

Exploring Duality in Space: How Select Countries Approach Dual-Use Space Systems

Evaluating Digital Modernization: Enhancing Analytical and Decision Support in Department of Defense Acquisition Management

The Chinese Military Is Built for Politics, Not Fighting Wars

A Comparative Analysis of Choices and Trade-Offs in U.S. Department of Defense and People’s Liberation Army Military Research, Development, and Acquisition Programs: Theory, Method, and Experimental Design

A Networked Leapfrog Strategy to Recapture Technology Leadership

Supply Chain Uncertainty and Responses: The Case of Ship Bromination Systems

Order in Orbit: Operationalizing an International Space Traffic Management Organization

Clearing Up the Confusion from Misperceptions About the Security Clearance Process

Considerations for Regulating the Commercial Human Spaceflight Market: Lessons for Balancing Market Growth and Public Safety

Passive Aggressive: Reconsidering the Relevance of Passive Defenses in Major War

China's National Security: The People's Liberation Army's Shrinking Role in Protecting the Nation's Core Interests

Assessment of Military Child Development Program Staffing: Initial Findings Regarding the Workforce

Economic Deterrence in a China Contingency

Mission Command with Chinese Characteristics? Exploring Chinese Military Thinking About Command and Control in Future Warfare

Are We Prepared for the Opening of the Central Arctic Ocean?

China's AI Exports Database (CAIED)

Incorporating Readiness Considerations into Mishap Classification and Analysis

A Snapback Solution for Ukraine: How to Craft Security Guarantees That Kyiv—and Moscow—Will Find Credible

Suppose They Held a War and Nobody Came: Systemic Approaches to Shared Military Personnel Challenges

How Might NATO Allies Respond if the United States Retrenches from Europe?

Vetting of Dual Citizens and Naturalized Citizens for Service in the National Security Workforce: Addressing Complexities, Challenges, and Opportunities Related to the Personnel Vetting Process

Addressing Common Questions and Concerns from Dual or Naturalized Citizens Regarding the Security Clearance Process

Guidelines for Designing a Ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine War: Best Practices, Lessons Learned, and the Role of Technology

Getting the Fundamentals of Cyberspace Force Readiness Right

Conference Proceedings on U.S.-Indian Security and Defense Industrial Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific

Reserve Component Duty Status Reform: A New Construct for Activating and Compensating Members of the National Guard and Reserves

Reserve Component Duty Status Reform: Analytical Contributions to a New Construct for Activating and Compensating Members of the National Guard and Reserves

A Case Study on the Potential Benefits of Reserve Component Duty Status Reform: The U.S. Department of Defense’s COVID-19 Response

Charting the Cosmos: Operational Astrography for the New Space Era

Toward a New Grand Design? Reviving Sully's Legacy in European Strategic Thought

Making Sense of the AI Revolution

Attrition's Apostle? Reading Vegetius in an Age of Protracted Warfare

The Battle for Brilliant Minds: From the Nuclear Age to AI

The U.S.-Japan Alliance Under New Management: Summary of a March 2025 Conference

The Future of Maritime Presence in the Central Arctic Ocean

Opportunities After Midnight Hammer: Charting a Path to Middle East Stability and Prosperity

Acquiring Generative Artificial Intelligence for U.S. Department of Defense Influence Activities

Acquiring Generative Artificial Intelligence to Improve U.S. Department of Defense Influence Activities

Building Taiwan's Resilience: Insights into Taiwan’s Civilian Resilience Against Acts of War

United States Navy Force Structure: The Challenge of Global Crisis Response

Waiting to Win: The FMS Accountability Gap: Addendum

Balancing Act — How Allies Have Responded to Limited U.S. Retrenchment

Anticipating Allies’ Responses to U.S. Retrenchment: Lessons from Limited Military Withdrawals During the Cold War

The Russian Federal Budget 2025–2027

Moldova and the Risk of a Russia-Imposed Peace

Modernizing Department of Defense Civilian Human Resources: Harnessing AI for Transformative Change

Rising Tide: Designing a Game of International Economic Competition

U.S.-China Economic Competition: Gains and Risks in a Complex Economic and Geopolitical Relationship

Coupled Competition: A Prototype Game to Explore the U.S.-China Relationship

Build Thee More Stately Mansions: Participatory Foresight and the Mid-Century U.S. Economy

The US Navy's Uncrewed Future

The Challenges of China's Supply Chain Dominance: Posturing the Defense Industrial Base

Polish Armed Forces Modernization: A New Cornerstone of European Security?

Littoral Crisis and Conflict: A Scenario for the Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame

National Guard Youth ChalleNGe: Program Progress in 2023–2024

Measuring the Reach of Russia’s Propaganda in the Russia-Ukraine War

An Update on Research Into Operationalizing an International Space Traffic Management Organization

Russia, Ukraine, and Collective Defence

Lessons from the War in Ukraine for Space: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Conflicts