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Upcoming Webinars

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The Financing of Terrorism Through Cryptocurrency

COMING SOON – EXACT DATE AND TIME TBD. The earliest-reported foreign terrorist organization that adopted cryptocurrencies as a means of donations was the Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center (ITMC) crowdfunding campaign for Mujahideen Shura Council/Environs of…

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Tactical Grief-Processing: The Cornerstone of Unconventional Resilience

This presentation will explore the central hypothesis of an ethnographic study examining how U.S. Air Force Special Operations Surgical Teams (SOSTs) build and sustain resilience against catastrophic injury exposure. Moving beyond conventional trauma-based resilience frameworks,…

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Electromagnetic Pulse Hardening of Critical Infrastructure

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) can have devastating consequences for electronic components, electrical systems, and the nation’s critical infrastructure.  While EMPs can be both natural and man-made, the events can damage and/or disrupt significant portions of…

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Barometric Extremes: Amplified Weather Hazards Impacting Energy and IT Sector Operations

Extreme weather trends over the past 85 years have indicated a major swing in lower lows, and longer lasting highs which is wreaking havoc on weather systems at the surface. When systems and practices were…

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Machine-Learning Weather Prediction

Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing weather forecasting because it can identify complex patterns in vast amounts of weather data. It provides accurate predictions, fast updates, and the ability to capture subtle details that traditional methods…

Past Webinars

The Continued Threat of Infectious Diseases to the U.S. Military

The U.S. military is an expeditionary force and constantly engaged in global missions. During deployment, servicemembers are often at risk from infectious diseases which have…

Podcast: Nuclear Arms Control Treaties

Part 1 This video podcast is part one of a two-part series on the topic of nuclear arms control treaties that the United States has…

Biostasis

This webinar will provide an overview of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Biostasis program. The Biostasis program aims to extend the time for…

DNA as a Molecular Engineering Platform for Defense Applications

DNA is more than a blueprint for living organisms. In the right hands, it can be used as a self-assembling, nanoscale building material with exquisite…

The Political, Economic, and Cultural Effects of the United States’ Overseas Military Presence

Despite the fact that the United States has stationed an average of 20 percent of its entire military abroad since WWII, we know comparatively little…

Podcast: Leveraging the Law of Armed Conflict in Creating Human Rights Compliant Counterterrorism Policy

Part 1 This podcast series describes how and why the United States military and defense policy community has taken the law of armed conflict into…