Center for Strategic and International Studies

  • David Berteau of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies discusses a lawsuit on women in combat. John Palguta of the Partnership for Public Service talks about a job-satisfaction report. Jeremy Herb of The Hill newspaper reviews the latest veterans issues being discussed on Capitol Hill. Mindy Eisenberg of the EPA reveals a new program to help find veterans jobs.

    May 30, 2012
  • Rick \"Ozzie\" Nelson, director of homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, ponders the TSA\'s evolving role in keeping the transportation system secure.

    November 21, 2011
  • James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says the strategies of the chambers differ but the policies are actually similar.

    October 19, 2011
  • Several outsourcing-friendly provisions made their way into the Defense authorization bill approved by the House of Representatives last week. The bill would lift a moratorium on public-private competitions via the A-76 process in DoD, and expresses the sense of Congress that DoD should insource only those jobs which are inherently governmental.

    May 30, 2011
  • Insourcing versus outsourcing - the debate continues. David Berteau is Senior Adviser and Director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, Center for Strategic and International Studies and he joins Francis Rose in today\'s DoD Report.

    May 17, 2011
  • Even in a year in which the Stuxnet attack targeted critical infrastructure systems and attacks on grid operators rose dramatically, operators of critical infrastructure around the world took few steps to increase their cyber defenses, a new report found.

    April 20, 2011
  • From “U.S. Department of Defense Contract Spending and the Industrial Base” hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies: The Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group hosted a presentation of its annotated brief on Department of Defense…

    February 01, 2011
  • Changes are coming to the ISE, and Program Manager Kshemendra Paul will take suggestions anywhere he can get them.

    October 12, 2010
  • From remotely opening garage doors to controlling appliances, to gaming, banking, shopping, to enabling the use of infrared and radar sensors, GPS, and satellite communications by fisherman, firemen and fighter aircraft the Electromagnetic Spectrum touches lives. We learn more from Blair Levin, co-author of the FCC\'s national broadband plan.

    September 20, 2010
  • The House approved a measure to increase security and surveillance along the Mexican border

    August 11, 2010
  • Two cyber leaders concur on importance of moving past forensics to risk mitigation.

    June 07, 2010
  • Contractors continue to outnumber military personnel in Afghanistan. 57-percent of the Pentagon’s force in that country is now made up of contractors. But what does the future hold? David Berteau is director of the Defense-Industrial…

    September 09, 2009
  • This Thursday Defense Secretary Robert Gates will release the Pentagon’s FY 2010 budget. Secretary Gates has talked about what priorities the budget will contain. The Senate Armed Services Committee called two experts on every aspect…

    May 04, 2009