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AI Regulation Across the Atlantic: EU AI Act vs. U.S. AI Governance
Abstract One of the most significant contemporary policy issues requiring cooperation between the United States and the European Union is artificial intelligence (AI) governance, particularly in the post-2020 period. This study examines the differences between the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act and United States AI governance, with particular attention to Executive Order 14110. The analysis focuses on how these frameworks differ from a legal perspective, in their methods of application, and in their approaches to encouraging innovative activities (European Parliament & Council of the European Union, 2024; Harris & Jaikaran, 2024). The study explores whether these two distinct systems can coexist, potentially converge under a unified framework, or continue to operate separately. These regulatory choices are assessed in light of their broader implications for global AI norms and public perceptions of AI governance. The research employs multiple methods, including document analysis and expert outreach conducted in Washington, DC. Three primary dimensions are examined.
December 29, 2025
Trump Doctrine Slams Globalism and Charts a Tougher, Tech-driven US Future (From FOX News)
Trump Doctrine Slams Globalism and Charts a Tougher, Tech-driven US Future (From FOX News) By Rebecca L. Grant, Ph.D., Vice President, Lexington Institute. December 22, 2025  Trump’s National Security Strategy declares ‘days of United States propping up entire world order like Atlas are over’ as administration shifts focus Pull up your chair.  Top off your coffee.  Last week, the White House released President Donald J. Trump’s new National Security Strategy, and it is the chattiest foreign policy document you’ve ever seen.  Read here and below. First and foremost, Trump’s strategy is driven by economic priorities.  “We want the world’s strongest, most dynamic, most innovative, and most advanced economy,” as the strategy says. Trump’s strategy cleans house.  No dry and diplomatic language here.  Out with mass migration, Europe, and globalization.  In with flexible realism, drug boat strikes, and Golden Dome missile defense.  This document does Americans the honor of telling it like it is. Of course, the foreign policy establishment freaked out over the venting about Europe.  They should have seen it coming.  “Europe is in serious trouble. They have been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody has ever seen before,” Trump warned in his UN speech. “The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over,” the strategy says. Read it and you’ll learn how America went off track with globalism, and illegal immigration. And why AI, the status of the dollar, and tech investments are leading American policy.  For all its indiscreet and gossipy moments, it’s a spot-on policy diagnosis that points the way to a bright future.  America is not retreating.  Far from it.  This is a strategy full of hope for peace and prosperity – and it makes way for nations like Poland, Finland, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and others to step up.
December 22, 2025
Global Dominance for U.S. AI Tech Stack is a National Security Goal (From Real America’s Voice)
By Rebecca L. Grant, Ph.D., Vice President, Lexington Institute. December 17, 2025  U.S. chips are one to two years ahead of China.  In generative AI, the lead is more like six months, according to White House AI Czar David Sacks. America wins the AI race through global market dominance.  On Dec. 8, President Donald J. Trump announced approval of NVIDIA chip sales to China. The chips, made in Taiwan, would first undergo security inspection in the U.S., while NVIDIA pays an import duty before completing the shipment to China. The anchor team of Terrance Bates, David Brody, and Dr. Gina Loudon at Real America’s Voice American Sunrise dug into the back and forth as part of a foreign policy segment. Dr. Gina Loudoun: “The U.S. will allow export of H200 AI chips to China.  The move represents a major shift.  The H200 chips were previously barred under export controls.  White House calls it a balance between protecting national security and maintaining American leadership in AI. But critics warn it could boost China’s tech and military capabilities. How concerning is this?” Rebecca Grant: I’m not concerned with this set of chips. This is Trump catching up after Biden’s policy, which was just to ban everything.  A big national security goal for the U.S. is to have the U.S. AI tech stack dominate chips, software, and cloud globally.  NVIDIA is selling at this point. These are the second, third, or fourth-best chips.  To dominate global tech, U.S. companies have to make sales.  And that includes China.  They are not getting the Blackwell.  So, this is not going to hurt our lead in AI, but it is going to give us more global market share, and that’s where we compete with China. The American Sunrise discussion brought up a key aspect of policy on the AI race with China.  Sales and market share did not used to be integral to national security policy.  However, the AI race is one the U.S. government cannot win by itself.  Dominance in the tech stack depends on forward momentum by U.S. companies.  Sales drive market share. For example, NVIDIA’s strategy is to take market share from Huawei around the globe and inside China.  “If the United States doesn’t want to partake, participate in China, Huawei has got China covered, and Huawei has got everybody else covered,” CEO Jensen Huang said in June.
December 17, 2025
America’s AI Action Plan and Mental Health: Building a Smarter Support System
America’s AI Action Plan and Mental Health: Building a Smarter Support System By Janice Tagoe When President Donald Trump unveiled America’s AI Action Plan in July 2025, it was framed as a blueprint for national technological dominance. The 90+ policy recommendations span deregulation, infrastructure, and diplomacy, and their implications for health care, specifically mental health, cannot be overemphasized. Mental health conditions affect tens of millions of Americans, and access to care remains uneven. Could the federal government’s AI roadmap spur innovations that make high-quality support more accessible, efficient, and personalized? Recent research and industry initiatives suggest the answer is yes, but only with deliberate safeguards and inclusive investment. Laying the Groundwork The Action Plan calls for accelerating innovation by removing regulatory hurdles, expanding infrastructure, and building international partnerships. Several provisions speak directly to health care. It urges federal agencies to create regulatory sandboxes and AI Centers of Excellence where researchers and startups can test AI tools under the supervision of agencies like the FDA and share data transparently. It also recommends launching domain-specific initiatives in sectors such as healthcare to develop national standards for AI systems and measure productivity gains. The plan further highlights the need for robust scientific datasets and secure access to federal data to support AI research in biology, medicine, and population health
November 14, 2025
Coded Commanders: Artificial Intelligence as the New General
Coded Commanders: Artificial Intelligence as the New General By Nishakant Ojha   New Delhi August 26,2025- Warfare is no longer confined to trenches, tanks, and territorial lines. The battlefield of the twenty-first century has shifted to codes, algorithms, satellites, and quantum signals. In this new age, decisions are not just taken by generals in command rooms but also by machine learning systems parsing terabytes of real-time data. The United States and China have embraced this transformation with clarity and urgency, pouring unprecedented resources into artificial intelligence, cyber dominance, quantum networks, and unmanned systems. For India, a nation with strategic imperatives across two hostile borders and maritime vulnerabilities, the urgency is far greater. The question is not whether India should modernize but whether it can do so fast enough to ensure survival in wars where the first shots may be fired in cyberspace or space, not on land. Algorithms at War: How AI is Rewriting Command and Control Artificial intelligence has become the defining marker of military modernisation. The United States leads in the integration of AI into its command-and-control systems, combining battlefield simulations with predictive analytics to give commanders decision making superiority. In war-gaming scenarios, American forces rely on AI to identify enemy vulnerabilities, optimise troop movements, and execute precision strikes with minimal human latency. AI-driven ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) is already a reality in the Pentagon’s doctrine, where unmanned systems feed vast amounts of battlefield data into real-time decision networks.
August 26, 2025
MAGA Country Thriving From Tech AI Investments, But Risks Abound (From American Greatness)
MAGA Country Thriving From Tech AI Investments, But Risks Abound (From American Greatness) Much has been made about the growing internal battles within the Trump Administration between supporters of tech bros, such as Elon Musk, and those on the populist right who are slamming the tech industry, like Steve Bannon. These divisions came to a head as the U.S. Senate considered a 10-year moratorium on state AI legislation as part of the massive budget reconciliation bill, siding with Team Bannon in opposing such a ban.
July 29, 2025
AI, Fair Use and the Arsenal of Democracy (From RealClear Defense)
By Rebecca L. Grant, Ph.D., Vice President, Lexington Institute. July 9, 2025 -AI, Fair Use and the Arsenal of Democracy (From RealClear Defense) Two California Rulings Impact America’s AI Race with China. Read here and below. National security has been barely a whisper in the rollicking debates on AI rules and regulations.  However, more and more defense programs are tapping directly into the products of what might be termed the “AI industrial base.”  From Air Force battle management to Navy shipbuilding and Army sensors and offensive cyber ops, AI is becoming an important element in U.S. multi-domain dominance. AI is now part of the arsenal of democracy.  That phrase, coined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in December 1940, included large auto factories, small tool and die shops, pharmaceutical manufacturers, boat builders and more, producing everything from jeeps to electronics. As every indicator shows, the struggle with China is increasingly focused on AI.  U.S. military programs are counting on the AI lead over China established by American technology companies. That’s why two California court rulings on AI models and the Fair Use doctrine – seemingly just a boisterous Hollywood issue – have implications for national security, too.
July 9, 2025
‘MOP Up Option’: Inside the U.S. Plan to Hit Iran’s Underground Nuclear Sites (From 1945)
The full text of this article is available below and on the 1945 website here. The Iran MOP Up Option: Air Force’s Biggest Bombs are Ready to Teach Iran a Lesson: As talks about Iran’s nuclear weapons program move forward, the U.S. military is keeping up the pressure with an array of forces in place under United States Central Command. “We do not want to see war. This is not a president that campaigned on starting wars. And as he said very clearly
May 27, 2025
How Machine Learning is Shaping the Future of Newborn Genetic Screening
May 13, 2025 - Advancements in artificial intelligence and genomics are rapidly transforming the landscape of public health. One of the most promising areas of this intersection is newborn screening, where data-driven tools are helping to reimagine how we detect and respond to genetic conditions from the earliest moments of life.
May 13, 2025
India’s Battle Against Eco-Terrorism and Global Trafficking
NEW DELHI - April22, 2025 - India’s biodiversity crisis has escalated into a national security threat, as wildlife trafficking large profits increasingly fund terrorism, insurgency, and organized crime. A new policy vision is imperative. India, home to some of the planet’s most iconic and endangered species, is facing an escalating crisis. Wildlife trafficking is no longer just an environmental issue—now it has become a matter of national security. Criminal syndicates are targeting India's tigers, elephants, rhinos, and pangolins that are sold in black markets to fund terrorism and insurgency, often in alliance with transnational networks operating across Southeast Asia and Africa. As the line between eco-crime and terrorism blurs, India must evolve from traditional conservation to adopting counterterrorism-grade technology, intelligence, and cooperation.
April 22, 2025
For T-45 Replacement, Young Navy Carrier Pilots Need AI And “Air Under Their Butts” (From RealClearDefense)
April 18, 2025 - The Navy is ready to unveil a secret sixth-generation fighter for its Ford and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, but that’s not the only plane on their shopping list.  The Navy also needs a future-focused advanced trainer for its carrier pilots to replace the T-45 Goshawk. Carrier air wing operations are more vital than ever.  Just look at the constant carrier sorties in  Central Command’s campaign against the Houthis – and China’s activity near Taiwan with its carrier Shandong.  Even with advances in uncrewed aircraft and collaborative drones, the Navy must produce pilots for fleet combat and support aircraft for years to come.  Drones are only just making their debut in carrier air wings, with the MQ-25 Stingray set to fly this year and go to sea in 2026
April 18, 2025
B-21 “Bomber on a Budget” Boosts Confidence in 6th Gen Aircraft (From RealClearDefense)
April 03, 2025 - Boosting Confidence in Sixth-Gen Aircraft Even in the era of DOGE, President Donald J. Trump is doubling down on American investment in sixth-generation aircraft.  The Air Force F-47 fighter and a new Navy carrier plane will restock American airpower.  While air dominance is priceless, the fact remains that experience with the B-21 Raider bomber has quietly given Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg, and the new leadership team the confidence to invest in advanced aircraft programs.  Saving money and executing on a predictable schedule is now a must for the survival of Pentagon programs. Read here and below.
April 3, 2025
Ghana’s AI Journey: Progress, Challenges, and Lessons from Global Leaders
March 21, 2025 - As Artificial Intelligence rapidly transforms industries across the world, Ghana is stepping up as a key player in Africa’s AI revolution. Ghana has made remarkable progress in integrating AI into education, digital skills training, and governance. However, obstacles like infrastructure limitations and regulatory gaps continue to pose challenges.
March 21, 2025
7 Combat Systems Ukraine Could Lose Without a Trump Deal on Aid (From FOX News)
March 11, 2025 - Ukraine fields high-tech weapons that rely on US technology and missiles to stay up-to-date Zelenskyy needs to Docusign that minerals deal right now. Zelenskyy’s stubbornness is about to leave Ukraine’s front lines and cities naked to the Russians.  Worst case, the war goes from static front lines to another attempted sweep toward Kyiv by Russia (backed up, as ever, by China.) Read here and full text below.
March 11, 2025
How Financial Institutions Are Using Data to Navigate Economic Uncertainty
February 28, 2025 - Leading financial intelligence firms are witnessing a surge in demand for data and analytics solutions in 2025. In February, both S&P Global and Moody’s Corporation reported stronger-than-expected profits, attributing their success to a market shaped by economic uncertainty and shifting U.S. policies. Their financial performance reflects a broader industry trend: companies are relying more than ever on data-driven decision-making to navigate volatile economic conditions.
February 28, 2025
Two New Chinese Warplanes Could Mean The End Of U.S. Air Superiority (From Federal News Radio)
February 27, 2025 - As if not enough is going on in the world, the Chinese military has flown two new stealthy jets. Some military observers consider them a tangible threat to the U.S. One is a bomber, and one is a fighter. This episode of  The Federal Drive with Tom Temin covered the Chinese planes, plus the U.S. F-22, B-21, F-35, and the future Next Generation Air Force fighter called NGAD. Link here and readout below.
February 27, 2025
Affordable Supersonic Travel is Coming Soon
February 17, 2025 - Boom Achieves Supersonic Flight. The first civil supersonic jet made in America breaks the sound barrier in historic Mojave airspace.” Here is a simple statement on the website of Boom, a relatively small American company, based in Denver, Colorado and Greensboro, North Carolina. Boom was created with the goal of building Overture, a supersonic passenger aircraft that will make business sense for passengers and for the airlines that will buy it and operate it. Imagine this: for the price of a business class ticket, you will be able to fly from Paris to Boston in half the time.
February 17, 2025
Why Donald Trump Must Protect S-Band Radar Spectrum for U.S. Defense (From 1945)
February 03, 2025 - Donald Trump Must Guard Spectrum for Radars to Defend the USA: No, the U.S. military cannot share a critical piece of S-band radar spectrum with commercial 5G wireless providers.  Not if the new Trump administration wants to improve defenses against mystery drones and guard against threats of missiles from China and Russia.
February 3, 2025
How AI Is Revolutionizing Cancer Care
January 31, 2025 - AI is set to transform the way we approach cancer care. During the January 21, 2025 announcement of the $500 billion “Stargate” AI infrastructure project at the White House, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison highlighted AI’s immense potential in healthcare, specifically in cancer detection and treatment. Ellison painted a future where AI could detect cancer through a simple blood test and create personalized cancer vaccines in just 48 hours. “This is the promise of AI and the promise of the future,” he remarked.
January 31, 2025
NVIDIA’s Project Digits Brings AI Supercomputing to Everyone’s Desk
January 27, 2025 - NVIDIA’s groundbreaking innovation, Project Digits, is making waves in the tech industry. This personal AI supercomputer promises to bring high-performance AI computing to everyone, from seasoned professionals to curious students. With cutting-edge features and an accessible price point, it is poised to reshape the future of data analytics and AI development.
January 27, 2025
Rondo: Industrial Heat from Bricks
January 24, 2025 - For the time being, a world running on clean, affordable, and reliable renewable energy is an aspiration, rather than an achievable goal. While great progress has been made in reducing the cost of solar panels and wind turbines, we are still at the very beginning of a long process. According to reports from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), in 2022, renewable energy accounted for 29.1% of global electricity generation. This percentage would include hydro power and nuclear power, “old” sources of renewable energy.
January 24, 2025
America Has a Drone Problem (From FOX News)
January 13, 2025 - President-elect Donald J. Trump wants to create an Iron Dome missile shield over the USA. But what about the drones flying underneath it?   “Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge. I don’t think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!” he wrote Friday on Truth Social.
January 13, 2025
Aptera will Launch EVs with Solar Panels
January 1o, 2025 - Can you have a three-wheel super-efficient electric vehicle, EV, with built in solar panels that produce some of its energy? Can this be the future of EVs? Yes, according to Aptera, a relatively new California based company soon offering a new type of EV: three wheels, lightweight, efficient, dependable, very spacious trunk, and relatively low cost. More on Aptera in a just a bit.
January 10, 2025
AI Can Boost Urban Farming Productivity
December 30, 2024 - Artificial Intelligence, AI, can help boost the growth of a new modality to grow food: vertical urban farming. Yes, we are talking about growing edible plants in appropriately configured buildings in which the natural environment for various types of plants can be replicated, in fact optimized. This is what we learn from reading an article by Gaurav Roy in Securities.io titled Indoor Farming Set to See Efficiency Boost Through AI (September 11, 2024)
December 30, 2024
Will AI Restructure U.S. Healthcare Policy?
December 26, 2024 - As we approach the end of 2024, the integration of AI in the U.S. healthcare sector continues to evolve dynamically. An article by DLA Piper provides some insights about the latest moves in Congress regarding AI in healthcare. This revealed increased activity within Congress and federal agencies around the topics of drug development, care delivery, and insurance coverage, thus reflecting a growing recognition of AI’s transformative potential in patient care, medical research, and healthcare economics nationwide.
December 26, 2024
The Digital Divide Delays Africa’s Development
December 23, 2024 - The internet revolution affected every aspect of business, corporate organizations, government activities, military operations, and the lives of people in developed countries. To a lesser extent, it also changed the lives of hundreds of millions in emerging economies, depending on the degree of internet adoption and related costs and fees for companies and average consumers.
December 23, 2024
Slam the Backdoor on China but Keep American Global Business, Allies in AI
December 20, 2024 - Outgoing Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has been tireless and effective in her efforts to keep China from accessing the most advanced semiconductor chips and other technology used to advance artificial intelligence.  Thanks to the hard work of the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Standards, Communist China can’t buy top-of-the-line chips without a license anymore.  On December 2, the BIS was applauded for releasing another round of controls on semiconductor manufacturing and high-bandwidth memory and sanctioned another 140 Chinese entities.
December 20, 2024
Filter Caps Provide Drinkable Water at a Low Price
December 18, 2024 - Imagine an extended bottle cap that contains filtering agents capable of making polluted water drinkable. The cap has two ends. You screw one end on an empty plastic water and on the other end you screw another plastic bottle containing dirty water. You hold the bottle with the contaminated water up and gravity will make it go through the built-in filter. This way, thanks to the filtering, clean, safe water flows into the empty bottle below. This ingenious, small size and light weight device is made by a company based in South America called Filter Caps.
December 18, 2024
The U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Orca Anti-Submarine Drone, China and the Pacific (From CBS Radio “Eye on the World” with John Batchelor)
December 11, 2024 - Meet Orca, an autonomous submarine, nearly the size of an 18-wheeler truck, and the biggest unmanned underwater vehicle in the Navy inventory. Its technical name is the Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle. What it’s designed to do is carry out autonomous missions. It has a tremendous capability to go out and lay mines to counter Chinese ships and submarines. Host John Batchelor, Gordon Chang and I discussed Orca’s unique mission in deterring China’s submarine force, and prospects for a renaissance in U.S. Navy shipbuilding. Highlights follow or listen here.
December 11, 2024
Bionic prosthetics are almost here
December 9, 2024 - An article published by MIT News, (A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally, by Anne Trafton, July 1, 2024), describes the new frontiers of artificial limbs. Advanced electronics, blended with careful connections with the persons muscles, can create an almost perfect artificial limb that allows a “natural” way of walking or climbing the stairs for a person using a prosthetic leg. As the article puts it: “A new surgical procedure gives people more neural feedback from their residual limb. With it, seven patients walked more naturally and navigated obstacles.”
December 9, 2024
Green Economy Tomorrow, Climate Adaptation Now
December 6, 2024 - The outcome of the turbulent COP 29 climate gathering which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan prompts a couple of important considerations. One, the world community is not making any considerable progress on its declared goal to engineer a quick transition to non-carbon energy. Two, rich countries are reluctant to hand over billions of dollars to poor countries, so that they can invest in green technologies. Meanwhile, emissions go up, and so do world temperatures.
December 6, 2024
From Sewage Water to NewBrew Beer
December 4, 2024 - Some consumers today can buy and safely consume great tasting beer made with recycled wastewater. True or false? It is actually a true story. While some may find the idea of drinking any beverage made with recycled sewer water distasteful, if not abhorrent, this is now fully accepted by many. Brewerkz, a Singapore based brewery, a while ago launched NewBrew, a beer made using wastewater fully treated by PUB, Singapore National Water Agency. As Brewerkz says on its website:
December 4, 2024
Accurate Tests from One Drop of Blood?
November 25, 2024 - Some may remember the story of Elizabeth Holmes, the very young American entrepreneur, Stanford University dropout, who founded Theranos, a company that supposedly was able to manufacture blood test equipment that allowed to perform scores of blood tests utilizing only a drop of blood.
November 25, 2024
Can AI Help in Improving U.S. Military Logistics?
November 14, 2024 - The Wall Street Journal recently published an article highlighting what may be one of the biggest challenges that the U.S. military will face in case of a prolonged conflict in faraway regions: grossly inadequate logistics.
November 14, 2024
Finally, a Breakthrough in Battery Technology?
November 11, 2024 - Form Energy, a relatively unknown U.S. firm, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, and now also by many high-profile private sector investors, including Bill Gates, claims that it has created a new type of battery that will –finally– make renewable energy truly cost effective.
November 11, 2024
Will Nuclear Power Fuel AI Centers in America?
November 6, 2024 - AI revolution is gaining momentum in America. NVIDIA, maker of the coveted chips which constitute AI’s key components (85% of global supply), from nowhere reached a market capitalization of about $ 3.4 trillion, becoming overnight the second most valuable company in the world –higher valuation than Microsoft or Saudi Aramco. Having taken notice of the unfolding revolution, all the major tech companies have jumped into the AI space hoping to reap incredible profits.
November 6, 2024
Innovation Ecosystems
October 29, 2024 - What is the magic formula for successful technological innovation? In broad terms, we know. You need a country with a sizable market that can absorb commercially viable innovations, state of the art infrastructure, some great research universities that breed top notch scientists and managers with great new ideas, robust capital markets, availability of risk capital and venture capitalists that can harness it, rule of law and independent courts, zero corruption, enforceable patent laws. We all know that these are the necessary ingredients. However, in practice, nobody really knows what the right mix should be.
October 30, 2024
Army’s Future Tiltrotor Blazes a Trail in Software, Soldier Feedback (From RealClearDefense)
October 28, 2024 - Drones and unmanned systems are a big part of the Army’s future, but so is a revolutionary manned aircraft: FLRAA, the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft.  Read my analysis from Real Clear Defense below and here. In August, acquisition officials signed off on Milestone B, launching FLRAA toward first flight in 2026 and a potential $70 billion program.
October 28, 2024
Solar Electrical Power from Fabrics?
October 7, 2024 - How about a tent that produces the electricity necessary to satisfy the needs of campers or field hospitals? Pvilion, a U.S. company based in Brooklyn, New York, can make them for you, following your specifications in terms of size and preferred material. Is this the new frontier of solar energy applications?
October 7, 2024
Electric Airplanes for Short Flights in America?
October 3, 2024 - Unlike in Europe, Japan or China, in America passenger railways have been neglected. While this may change in the future, at this time there are no fast trains networks. The only exception is the “Eastern Corridor” (Washington, DC – New York City – Boston) that is served by semi-fast trains. For the rest of the large country, to travel from point A to point B Americans have essentially two choices: drive or fly. However, large commercial carriers do not fly to small cities.
October 3, 2024
Poland’s Secret Weapon Goes Beyond Abrams Tanks (From RealClearDefense)
September 30, 2024 - Poland has a secret weapon. No, not just the Abrams main battle tanks, F-35 stealth fighters, Patriot air defenses, Apache helicopters or other top-line equipment purchased by Poland.  Poland’s secret weapon centers on its intense national commitment to security against a resurgent Russia – and the favorable American opinion this inspires.
September 30, 2024
Desalination Technologies are Getting Better and Cheaper
September 19, 2024 - There is a major freshwater crisis affecting many regions of our planet. However, desalination may provide a viable solution. Significant technological progress is making desalination plants that allow to turn salty sea water into drinkable fresh water much more affordable. This is a blessing for an overcrowded world in need of more and more fresh water –for humans, farm animals, agriculture, and industry.
September 19, 2024
China Beats America in STEM Education
September 5, 2024 - Here is the hard truth. China is massively ahead of the U.S. in the number of schools, research centers, scientists and university graduates involved in the STEM disciplines. STEM include Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. This did not happen overnight. This significant China advantage is the tangible outcome of an investment policy ordered years ago by President Xi Jinping.
September 5, 2024
US Nuclear Power Future: Small Reactors
August 7, 2024 - Could it be that the now moribund U.S. civil nuclear power sector will be lifted to new heights by innovative technologies? Maybe so, if the concept of small nuclear reactors gets traction in the U.S. and elsewhere, this way creating a new modality to supply low cost, emission free, electricity.
August 13, 2024
A Tale of Two AI Announcements: Governments Glum, Google Gritty
Jule 24, 2024 - Yesterday there were two notable announcements about the future of Artificial Intelligence that were diametrically at odds in tone and outlook. Governments worldwide are talking down AI and trying to figure out what it is, where it is going, and what they should do about it. U.S. private tech companies are carefully researching and applying the technology, taking big market risks, and helping the public capture the profound benefits.
August 6, 2024
Uber Driverless EVs: The Urban Transportation Revolution
August 1, 2024 - The promise of electric vehicles, EVs, is that they will do away with internal combustion engines powered by oil derived gasoline. The elimination of internal combustion engines will translate into a dramatic reduction of harmful emissions caused by burning gasoline, this way helping mankind to reduce the greenhouse gases that trap the sun’s heat in the atmosphere. As we all know, the greenhouse effect causes higher temperatures, global warming, and down the line climate change.
August 2, 2024
Africa Will Miss the AI Revolution
August 1, 2024 - The Economist recently noted that The Netherlands, with a population of only 18 million, has more data centers than the entire African Continent, population about 1.4 billion. Africa will not have an AI revolution mostly because it lacks the physical infrastructure for AI –fiber networks and data centers– and sufficient electric power generation and distribution to run it. Unless this state of affairs changes —rapidly— the Continent will miss out on the enormous education and economic development opportunities that exist for those who can easily access AI.
U.S. Marine Corps Could Be Left With No Effective Amphibious Warfare Fleet (From 1945)
October 20, 2022 - Issue by by GPI Fellow Daniel Goure. The Department of Defense may be creating a “perfect storm,” a situation in which LSD decommissioning and LPD 17 Flight II production terminations, coupled with increasing costs for the LAW, could leave the Sea Services with inadequate numbers of both large and small amphibs.
October 24, 2022
The Biggest Threat To America’s Global Dominance In Software & Services Isn’t China–It’s Washington (From Forbes)
October 10, 2022 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. Over the last 20 years, software and digital services have become the most vibrant sector of the U.S. economy. The pace of innovation is furious, and the impact on global commerce and culture is profound. At a time when America was losing ground in many traditional industries, companies like Amazon and Alphabet have redefined what it means to be competitive. That’s a good thing, because as President Biden’s Interim National Security Strategic Guidance states, “in today’s world, economic security is national security.”
October 11, 2022
Green tech investment could reach $5 trillion by 2025
August 17, 2022 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Andrea Zanon. For global markets, investing in sustainable business is the only way forward. Companies that do not participate in decarbonization will lose out. Green and clean technology “unicorns” are becoming the mainstream, disrupting the renewable energy, food, and mobility sectors.
August 21, 2022
Raytheon’s SPY-6 Radar Family Will Revolutionize U.S. Navy Operations (From 1945)
July 15, 2022 - Issue Brief by GPI Fellow Daniel Goure. The U.S. Navy’s new operational approach to winning a high-end fight with a peer competitor is called Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO). The essence of DMO is found in three core tenets: making U.S. forces (particularly naval platforms but also land-based forces) hard to find, hard to kill, and highly lethal.
July 17, 2022
Arbitrary Drugs Expiration Dates Are A Waste Of Money
July 14, 2022 - Issue Brief by Ziv Harish. It has been said that American urine is the most expensive in the world due to the many expensive vitamins and supplements that we consume, but which our bodies do not absorb. The same may be said about American garbage, into which we dump millions of dollars’ worth of unused medications simply because they are past their marked expiration dates.
COO Chris Calio Says Raytheon Technologies Is Proving The Value Of The Merger (From Forbes)
July 1, 2022 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. When Raytheon and United Technologies disclosed their intention to merge three years ago, they laid out a vision of a consolidated enterprise that would be nearly unstoppable in aerospace and defense. It did not take long for that vision to be tested: the new company had to integrate operations in the midst of a global pandemic. But as time goes by and the pandemic recedes, the business thesis behind the merger is still intact.
July 4, 2022
GSA’s Power Grab Over DFTS Puts Critical Defense Transportation Contracts At Risk (From 19FortyFive)
June 28, 2022 Issue Brief by GPI Fellow Daniel Goure For more than a decade, the Department of Defense (DoD) struggled to find the right contracting mechanism that would allow it to take advantage of the enormous logistics capabilities resident in the private sector. Third-party logistics providers have the experience, tools, databases, and procedures to support a network of transportation providers while minimizing both the cost and time involved in moving goods and materials.
Navy’s Latest Shipbuilding Plan Is Not Good News For The Industrial Base (From Forbes)
May 13, 2022 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Advisor Loren B. Thompson. The number of warships in the U.S. naval fleet has not managed to get above 300 for two decades. Meanwhile, the country the Chief of Naval Operations describes as “our pacing threat,” China, is headed for 400 warships in its own fleet at mid-decade. The disparity is even worse than it seems, because Chinese forces are concentrated close to home, where Beijing also sustains a growing arsenal of long-range, antiship weapons.
May 22, 2022
Russian Aggression Highlights Need To Bolster P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Force (From Forbes)
May 5, 2022 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. Most of the war coverage from Ukraine is about what’s happening on the ground, but eventually NATO will have to rethink other facets of its military preparations in light of Russia’s aggression. One area that needs a close look with regard to both Russia and China is whether America and its allies have an adequate fleet of maritime patrol aircraft–particularly for finding and defeating hostile submarines.
May 9, 2022
Air Force Confirms It Plans To Slash F-35 Buy In 2023–But Can’t Explain Why (From Forbes)
March 28th, 2022 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. The Air Force publicly confirmed on March 28 that it intends to buy a much smaller number of F-35 fighters in 2023 than previously planned. It says it still intends to eventually buy 1,763 of the stealthy fighters, but at the proposed rate for next year, that would take half a century. Congress will have something to say about all this. Here are five questions Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall should be ready to answer when budget hearings are held:
April 3, 2022
The Reckless Push For Electric Vehicles At The U.S. Postal Service (From RealClearEnergy)
December 28th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Fellow Paul Steidler. As Democrats regroup and forge ahead with plans to implement components of the Build Back Better legislation killed by Senator Joe Manchin, calls for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to be given billions of taxpayers’ dollars to electrify its fleet are likely to soon reach a fever pitch. Progressives pulled out all the stops to provide USPS with electric vehicle funding in 2021 and will likely double down in 2022.
December 29, 2021
The Limits of Green Energy Technologies
December 27th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI President Paolo von Schirach. WASHINGTON — Here is our problem. We really want to stop global warming. But we lack the adequate green energy technology tools to do the job. We know that the traditional fossil fuels energy sources –coal, oil products and natural gas– produce unwanted side effects. Burning these fuels generates massive amounts of greenhouse gases that are trapped in the atmosphere. This is what causes global warming.
Army’s Future Vertical Lift Will Reshape The Rotorcraft Industry–And Companies Know It (From Forbes)
December 17th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. The U.S. Army has not developed an all-new combat rotorcraft since the Reagan years, but now it is developing two in a program called Future Vertical Lift (FVL). FVL is expected to generate demand for nearly 100 aircraft per year, making it by far the biggest source of demand for the domestic rotorcraft industry. That means leading companies must secure a berth on either the new recon aircraft or the new assault aircraft
December 19, 2021
How To Counter The Chinese Missile Threat: More Missile Defense? (From 1945)
December 13th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI fellow Daniel Goure. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is rapidly building a world-class military that could dominate the Western Pacific. As part of its near-meteoric rise, the PLA is rapidly becoming a missile superpower, capable of threatening the U.S. homeland as well as U.S. forces and allies in the Indo-Pacific region. In order to deter China and ensure that the People’s Liberation Army cannot use its missile power to conduct a disarming first strike against U.S. forces
Are U.S. Missile Defenses Vulnerable To Cyberattacks? (From 1945)
November 18th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI fellow Daniel Goure. The Chinese hypersonic missile threat has made the United States rethink its missile defense approach. U.S. defense officials recognize that America’s missile defense capabilities, while formidable, are designed to track and shoot down traditional ballistic missiles and would struggle with hypersonic systems.
November 29, 2021
Engage Big Oil For Lower Emissions (From RealClearEnergy)
November 12th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Fellow Paul Steidler. These are heady days for bashing U.S. and European multinational oil corporations while also begging OPEC to increase oil production. While the U.S. House of Representatives is excoriating oil company CEOs, the Biden Administration is pleading for more oil from abroad. Talk about bizarre and mixed messages. A better course is to hold Big Oil accountable to its bold promises for cleaner energy production and to track how it is doing.
November 15, 2021
Punishing India For Buying Russian Weapons Would Hurt America And Help China (From Forbes)
October 18th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. The Biden administration will soon need to decide whether to sanction India for purchasing Russia’s S-400 air defense system. Doing so would be a big mistake. Washington has been working hard to build bridges to India, and now it needs New Delhi to participate closely with Australia and Japan in a quadripartite coalition to contain China’s regional ambitions. Any imposition of sanctions at this point would be counter-productive...
October 25, 2021
Why Nothing Can Replace Large-Deck, Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers In U.S. Strategy (From Forbes)
September 14th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. The United States is the only nation that operates a fleet of large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers–eleven in all. They are the signature expression of American military power, and by far the most powerful conventional warfighting system ever conceived. Unfortunately, much of the public never hears the details of why carriers are indispensable in U.S. strategy.
September 20, 2021
Why Raytheon Technologies Could Become America’s Biggest Aerospace & Defense Business In This Decade (From Forbes)
September 02nd, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. When Raytheon and United Technologies merged in 2020 to become Raytheon Technologies, they created an aerospace enterprise with unrivaled market breadth and technical depth. There is a real possibility that by mid-decade, RTX will be the biggest aerospace and defense business in America. At present, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have more sizable sales, but Boeing has suffered significant setbacks in both its commercial and defense units
September 5, 2021
A Cleaner Oil Industry: Driven By Data And Common Sense (From RealClearEnergy)
September 01st, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI fellow Paul Steidler. The world is going to need 50 percent more energy by 2050, including a large amount of oil. This challenge can be met while also addressing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Through data analytics, U.S. oil companies are taking many steps to significantly cut their emissions soon. Policymakers should encourage these actions as the U.S. oil industry is large
Why A Nuclear Deterrent Without ICBMs Would Be Dangerous And Destabilizing (From Forbes)
August 13, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. The United States has long maintained a nuclear “triad” of land-based ICBMs, sea-based ballistic missiles, and bombers. Now some members of Congress are proposing that Washington forego replacing its aged ICBMs. That would be dangerous, because the number of targets an enemy would need to take out in a disarming first strike would fall from nearly 500 to barely 20.
August 15, 2021
The F-35 Is Going To Be The Free World’s Fighter (From 1945)
August 09th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Fellow Daniel Goure. The recent decision by the Swiss Federal Council (SFC) to acquire the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as Switzerland’s next-generation air defense aircraft has made it all but official: the F-35 is fast becoming the free world’s dominant fighter. The Swiss conducted a comprehensive technical evaluation which found that the F-35A “has the lowest operating costs of all of the candidates evaluated.”
August 9, 2021
U.S. Shipbuilding Is At Its Lowest Ebb Ever. How Did America Fall So Far? (From Forbes)
July 23rd, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. There was a time within living memory when America was the world’s biggest builder of commercial oceangoing vessels, and its ships carried a third of global trade. Those days are long gone. The U.S. now typically produces less than ten such vessels annually, compared with over a thousand in China. And barely one-percent of U.S. trade is carried on U.S.-registered ships.
July 26, 2021
Why We Know F-35 Support Costs Will Fall In The Future (From Forbes)
July 20th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. The Government Accountability Office put out a report earlier this month purporting to show that the F-35 fighter costs more to operate and sustain than U.S. military services can afford to pay. Somehow, though, the report failed to mention that F-35 is already more reliable and maintainable than the aircraft it will be replacing–not to mention more effective at executing key missions.
Why The Air Force’s “Bridge Tanker” Will Likely Be A Bridge To Nowhere For Airbus (From Forbes)
July 15th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. The U.S. Air Force wants to buy 140-160 commercial derivative tankers following completion of the present KC-46 production run in 2029. The effort is called a bridge tanker because it is the transition to a next-generation aerial refueler. Boeing and Airbus are both are likely to bid, in a replay of the competition that Boeing won ten years ago. There isn’t much reason to expect it will go differently this time since they are bidding the same basic airframes.
July 18, 2021
Future Vertical Lift: Army Aviation’s Master Plan To Defeat China and Russia Without Breaking The Budget (From Forbes)
June 11th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. The U.S. Army is leading a rotorcraft development program called Future Vertical Lift that aims to transform the way it conducts tactical air operations. Its immediate goal is to replace Cold War scout and assault helicopters with aircraft that are twice as fast and can fly twice as far. And that’s just the beginning–they will also deliver 360-degree situational awareness, seamless networking and diverse effects in a sustainable and affordable package.
June 13, 2021
Fixing Our Most Important And Vulnerable Infrastructure–The Electric Grid (From Inside Sources)
May 05th, 2021 - Issue Brief by Paul Steidler. America’s most important infrastructure is also our most vulnerable – the electric grid. It is old and literally on the screens of foreign adversaries (e.g., China, Russia, and Iran) who have been attacking it and will continue to do so. For years numerous government agencies have warned about the many dangers to the electric grid. There are important roles for the private sector, the federal government, and state government to take in strengthening and protecting the electric grid.
May 19, 2021
Army Leaders Endorse Upgrades Of Chinook Helicopter, Cite Industrial Base Concerns (From Forbes)
May 06th, 2021 - Issue Brief by Loren B. Thompson. The U.S. Army’s objections to Block II upgrades of the Chinook helicopter seem to be softening. On Wednesday of this week, Army Chief of Staff James McConville told the House defense appropriations subcommittee that his service needs the additional lift provided by the upgrades, and is mindful of the industrial base impacts if the upgrades do not go forward. The industrial fallout really would be significant, potentially shutting the main production line at the biggest industrial complex in southeastern Pennsylvania and destroying thousands of skilled jobs across a vast supply chain.
May 6, 2021
Great Power Competition Demands Revitalization Of America’s Military Sealift (From the National Interest)
May 03rd, 2021 - Issue Brief by Daniel Goure. In an era of great power competition, the U.S. military has had to relearn a number of strategic facts. Perhaps the most important of these is the central role that sealift has played in the United States’ ability to project power abroad. During the Cold War, the U.S. was able to not only deploy large forces overseas but move and sustain entire armies around the world. Today, 90 percent of U.S. forces are based on CONUS. They will have to get to the fight. Over the past three decades, the US sealift fleet has been allowed to decline precipitously.
Big Oil Is Cutting Emissions. With Big Data It Will Do It Quicker. (From RealClearEnergy)
April 1st, 2021 - Issue Brief by Paul Steidler. The world’s largest oil and natural gas companies are sprinting to cut greenhouse gas emissions and making significant progress. By reengineering many operations through digital technology and cloud storage – Big Data – emissions will be cut sooner, and without unnecessary, drastic steps that will drive up the price of oil and gasoline, thereby imposing a de facto, regressive tax. While the oil and natural gas industries have been slow to adopt data analytics, cloud computing, and related practices, there are compelling reasons to do so now. Lexington Institute’s Paul Steidler discusses these matters
April 5, 2021
No Way Out: Why Nuclear Modernization Is Necessary (From Forbes)
February 24th, 2021. Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. Last week I participated in an online panel about nuclear modernization. My presentation focused on six slides that summarize why the U.S. has no choice but to modernize its triad of nuclear weapons. The argument comes down to this: (1) There is no effective defense against a large-scale nuclear attack; (2) The U.S. therefore deters attack by threatening unacceptable retaliation, but all the weapons in our triad must soon retire; (3) Maintaining an effective deterrent does not preclude nuclear reductions and costs a small fraction of the defense budget; (4) The Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine will host most U.S. warheads in the future because it cannot be destroyed in a surprise attack when at sea; (5) Land-based ballistic missiles need to be modernized because they greatly complicate the challenge of disarming the U.S. in an attack; and (6) Bombers provide flexibility in a crisis, but their cruise missiles are becoming unreliable and must be replaced to successfully penetrate enemy defenses.
March 8, 2021
Pentagon Report Paints Grim Picture Of America’s Industrial Decline (From Forbes)
January 13th, 2021 - Issue Brief by GPI Senior Adviser Loren B. Thompson. On January 12 the Department of Defense released its 2020 assessment of U.S. industrial capabilities. It is alarming compendium of decay that signals FDR’s arsenal of democracy is on its last legs. From shipbuilding to machine tools to semiconductors, the sinews of American economic and military strength are gradually draining away to other nations, particularly those in East Asia. The notion that America could surge military production in response to an emergency today the way it did in World War Two is a fantasy: too many skills have been lost, too many offshore dependencies have accumulated. It seems that President Trump was right to put industrial policy back on the national agenda, and that President Biden will need to do the same thing.
January 20, 2021
Beware Of Politicians Trying To Rescue You From Technology Companies (From RealClearMarkets)
December 17th, 2020. Issue Brief by Paul Steidler. During the pandemic America’s large technology companies have been critical to the economy while providing significant health and safety benefits. If America did not have the services of our large technology companies, we would hear calls for the government to invest tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to invent them. Instead, there are now aggressive antitrust actions against these companies by elected officials and central bureaucrats that pose major risks to the engine of our economy and our health and safety.
December 27, 2020