Category Strategy, Policy & Governance

Militaries developing wide range of aircrafts for electronic-warfare capable of tactical jamming to ectronic attack

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All modern forces depend on unimpeded access to, and use of, the EM spectrum in conducting military operations. Therefore, there is a requirement to gain and maintain an advantage in the electromagnetic spectrum by countering adversary’s systems and protecting one’s…...

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Militaries developing scalable hundreds of Kilowatts to Megawatts High Power Laser technologies for air and missile defense

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The Laser Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) offer a transformational ‘game changer’ to counter asymmetric and disruptive threats, while facing increasingly sophisticated traditional challenges. Laser technology provides major advantages for military applications over kinetic weapons due to High precision and rapid…...

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Australia facing cyber attacks by sophisticated state-based cyber actor, implementing Cyber Vision 2020, cyber security strategy, cyber science and technology plan

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The exponential growth of information and communications technology (ICT) technology that includes Internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors and controllers, has led to creation of Cyberspace, a global domain within ICT. The economic, social and strategic influence is…...

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Countries building Artificial islands for economic progress, establishing industry,and exerting geopolitical and military control

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An artificial island or man-made island is an island that has been constructed by people rather than formed by natural means. Artificial islands may vary in size from small islets reclaimed solely to support a single pillar of a building…...

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Indian offset policy overcoming challenges to achieve target worth USD15 billion in defence offset work over next decade.

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The defence equipment held by Indian defence forces is 50% obsolete, the proportion of state-of-the-art equipment also needs to double from current 15% to 30%. This justifies the huge requirement of new systems. Ongoing projects include submarine building, advance early warning…...

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Indian Threat Scenario, National security threats and future military capability requirements

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There are two approaches to connect Warfighting and emerging technologies. One is to consider the present and future threat environment and then through system analysis we can identify technologies required to mitigate those threats. Secondly, we can identify the emerging…...

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US Army’s Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Strategy for gaining for gaining overmatch in future high-intensity conflicts

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As both artificial intelligence and autonomous systems advance at an astonishing rate, scientists and military leaders alike are working through the complexities to determine the best ways of implementing them on the modern battlefield. The accelerating arms race in Artificial Intelligence…...

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Remerging threat of Biological Weapons attack against Agricultural Targets and Agrobioterrorism, with advances in Gene editing, synthetic biology, and improved delivery systems

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Food and agriculture are key elements of the critical infrastructure of every country because they provide products that are essential for life. The United States is a country with a highly developed agricultural sector. Food and agriculture constitute a sixth…...

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Synthetic Biology has enhanced asymmetric Bio warfare and Bio terrorism threat posed by biological weapons, in response US launches Biodefence Strategy

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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that significant biological threats can and will emerge from nature without warning, demonstrating that a single viral strain can have a profound impact on modern society. It has also demonstrated that infectious diseases can rapidly…...

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Countries like US, Russia and china are racing to deploy ground combat robots or UGVs, and testing their effectiveness on battlefield

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An unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is a vehicle that operates while in contact with the ground and without an onboard human presence. Generally, the vehicle will have a set of sensors to observe the environment, and will either autonomously make…...

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