The Briefing Room

For decades, discussions surrounding national security have often focused on military platforms, intelligence operations, and geopolitical flashpoints overseas. Today, however, strategic competition increasingly extends beyond traditional battlefields and into research labs, private businesses, biotech centers, and university innovation environments across the United States.

How emerging technologies, innovation ecosystems, and research institutions are reshaping global power It’s 2:17 a.m. in the heart of campus, inside a quiet university research lab at a west coast university in the United States. A doctoral student stares at a screen filled with autonomous systems modeling data tied to a next-generation artificial intelligence project. The work has enormous commercial potential. It could also shape future military logistics, intelligence