Thursday, April 4, 2024

Friday's Miscellany 03-29-2024

 38 North

 AidData

 Alethea

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Amnesty International

 Army Applications Laboratory

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Centre on China in the World

 Australian Army Research Center

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) 

 Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

 Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

 Brookings Institution

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Cato Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Analyses in Security Policy
    • No. 337: Strategic De-risking Beyond Chips 
    • No. 338: Knowledge Security at Stake 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

 Centre for Independent Studies

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Chatham House

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense AI Observatory  (DAIO)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2024-068 Evaluation of the DoD Military Information Support Operations Workforce 
  • DODIG- 2024-069 Management Advisory: The Navy’s Execution of Funds to Assist Ukraine 

 Department of the Treasury

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)            

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

 European Council on Foreign Relations                 

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union (EU)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)              

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique) 

 French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

 German Council on Foreign Relations 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs 

 German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Financial Integrity

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Army Corps of Engineers: Actions Needed to Better Align Management of Real Estate Administrative Fees with Key Practices GAO-24-107446 
  • Driver Assistance Technologies: NHTSA Should Take Action to Enhance Consumer Understanding of Capabilities and Limitations GAO-24-106255 
  • International Mail: Effects of Rate Increases and Other Factors on USPS and Domestic Stakeholders GAO-24-107383 
  • Military Readiness: Comprehensive Approach Needed to Address Service Member Fatigue and Manage Related Efforts GAO-24-105917 
  • Space Acquisitions: Analysis of Two DOD Reports to Congress GAO-24-106984 
  • Ukraine: Status of Foreign Assistance: GAO-24-106884 
  • Veterans Community Care Program: Additional Information on VA Statutory Appointment Timeliness Measurements is Needed GAO-24-105308 
  • Veterans Health Care: Improvements Needed in Patient Tracking for Non-Biological Implantable Medical Devices GAO-24-106621 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Henry Jackson Society

 Heritage Foundation

 Hudson Institute

 Human Rights Watch

 IEMed – European Institute of the Mediterranean

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA) 

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for Security and Development Policy

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

 Institute for the Study of Warfare

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, March 29, 2024, v. 24, no. 7 
    • When The Chips Are Down: Taiwan’s Water and Energy Conundrum
    • Foreign Intelligence Hackers and Their Place in the PRC Intelligence Community
    • Beijing’s Increasing Maritime Gray Zone Operations Around Taiwan’s Outlying Islands
    • Deepfakes with Chinese Characteristics: PRC Influence Operation in 2024
    • The PRC’s Continued Outsized Role in the Cryptocurrency Industry

 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, v. 38, no. 2, 2024 
    • H4H: An Open Framework for Rapid Human–Machine Teaming Prototype Integration
    • A Multidimensional Cyber Threat Scenario Enumeration Model for Resilience Engineering
    • APL’s Systems Approach to Becoming a Strategy-Driven Organization
    • “APL in the Twenty-First Century”: A Retrospective on the 1983 Report to the Director
    • Technology Visions for APL’s Centennial
    • APL Identifies Two New Defining Innovations
    • APL Achievement Awards and Prizes: The Lab’s Top Inventions, Discoveries, and Accomplishments in 2022

 National Academies Press  

 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

 National Defence University (Pakistan)

  • NDU Journal 2024, v. 38, no. 1 
    • AI Integration in Indian Military: Appraisal of Security Apprehensions for South Asia
    • Information Warfare and Twitter: A Nexus of Indian Shadow Networks on Balochistan Issue
    • Political Polarization Issues and Challenges Faced by Pakistan
    • Seeking a Collaborative Security Alliance Framework for Pakistan
    • Cyber-Equation between India and Pakistan: Pretext of Stability-Instability Paradox
    • India’s Strategic Information Warfare: Challenges and Policy Options for Pakistan

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • NIST IR 8286C Staging Cybersecurity Risks for Enterprise Risk Management and Governance Oversight 

 National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

 Naval War College

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

 Paulson Institute, MarcoPolo

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

 Pew Research Center

 Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

  • Science, Technology, Engineering, and Policy Studies (STEPS) March 2024, no. 9 
    • Peak China: Personal Observations as a Western Businessperson in China
    • Is AI Ready to Help Win Wars?
    • Applying Lessons from the Commercial Innovation System to the National Security Innovation Base
    • Trusted Access to Microelectronics
    • AI Technology to Increase US Government Transparency

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

 Rand

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Small Arms Survey

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Taylor & Francis

 Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI)

  • Perspectives on Terrorism, 2024, v.18, no. 1 
    • Prosecuting Terror in the Homeland: An Empirical Assessment of Sentencing Disparities in United States Federal Terrorism Cases
    • Hidden in Plain Sight: Insurrectionary Anarchism in the Anti-Government Extremism Landscape
    • Violence after Victory? Civil Wars, One-Sided Wins, and Terrorism in the Post-Conflict Period
    • Victim, Violent, Vulnerable: A Feminist Response to the “Incel Radicalisation Scale”
    • Differentiating Terrorism and Sanctioned Finance: Regiment Stability and Economic Hierarchy
    • Still Aiming at the Harder Targets: An Update on Violent Non-State Actors’ Use of Armed UAVs
    • Bibliography Risk Assessment of Terrorism
    • Counterterrorism Bookshelf: Nine Books on Terrorism & Counter- Terrorism-Related Subjects

 UK Ministry of Defense

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 White House

 Wilson Center

 World Bank