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Virtual registration for the 2026 CNAS Annual Conference is now live!

Join us on June 11 for a full day of discussions on the issues shaping global security and the New Rules the U.S. and its allies need to embrace.

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Hear from leading experts in national security on this issue and more at the CNAS 2026 National Security Conference.

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In the age of artificial intelligence, computing power is the new currency of global power.

@paul_scharre discusses how the U.S. can maintain its compute leadership by promoting American tech exports and restraining the power of competitors.

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Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and its ramifications for the global economy provide a clear lesson for military planners—geographic chokepoints are back.

@RHFontaine on the strategic importance of these chokepoints across the world.

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The Indo-Pacific is now, more than ever, a vital theater of competition—one in which U.S. allies could play a decisive role in deterring regional adversaries.

@elyratner, @DavidFeith, @AmbVMKwatra, and @LisaCurtisDC will join @AsiaLens at the CNAS 2026 National Security Conference for a panel on burden sharing and cooperation in the region.

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CNAS is thrilled to welcome @ChrisPainterYup, president of @METR_Evals, to its Technology and National Security Program as an adjunct senior fellow.

At METR, he leads the organization’s engagement with governments and AI labs on frontier AI safety.

In this role, he has worked to shape industry frontier safety policies and scaled METR’s work on third-party AI risk assessment.

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AI promises to upend the way war is waged, but the rules that will govern its use are still unclear.

Register to attend the CNAS 2026 National Security Conference and hear from Lt. Gen. Jack N.T. Shanahan (Ret.), @paul_scharre, and @DavidGMcKenzie on this “intelligentization of warfare”.

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Congress’s role in national security policy is being rapidly redefined amid new challenges and changing understandings of executive power.

Join @RepDonBacon, @RepJasonCrow, @RepAdamSmith, and @carriecordero at the 2026 CNAS National Security Conference for a bipartisan discussion on today’s New Rules for—and by—Congress.

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Join the CNAS 2026 National Security Conference to hear former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff @GenCQBrownJr in conversation with @StaciePettyjohn on future trends in U.S. warfighting.

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Evidence suggests that AI development in China is dependent on a large-scale, sophisticated campaign of adversarial distillation—extracting the outputs of U.S. models to use in model training.

A recent paper by @danielremler and @BenHayum lays out the national security implications of this threat and what an effective policy response could look like.

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Senator @RubenGallego will join @RHFontaine at the 2026 CNAS National Security Conference to discuss how Congress is shaping the new national security playbook.

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Hear from leading voices on these issues and more at the CNAS 2026 National Security Conference.

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Congress faces both unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the changing national security landscape.

@CarltonHaelig lays out the prospects for modernization offered by the 2027 defense budget and the attention to oversight it will require.

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Sunsetting key national security legislation is creating widespread uncertainty in America’s national security institutions.

@carriecordero on the necessity for Congress to prevent consequential lapses of authority.