Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is proud to announce it's first CReST Fellowship. Extraordinarily talented undergraduate students will be selected for one year at the Institute to address a big, complex problem with creative, complex solutions regarding how science and technology will change the world as we know it. Applications are due by May 1 to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please see the description of the fellowship for additional details.
Our inability to identify and treat mental illness will only mean more incidents like Sandy Hook
Jennifer Buss, PhD, Patrick Cheetham, Robert Hummel, PhD, Kathryn Schiller-Wurster, and Michael Swetnam make up the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies' Center for Revolutionary Scientific Thought. The Center develops new ideas about the future directions of science and technology, formulates strategies on how to achieve revolutionary gains in that field, provides a forum to discuss the associated political, ethical, legal, and social issues, and informs the public and policymakers to solve vital societal problems.
In December we added Adam Lanza to a long string of mentally ill young men alleged to have committed horrific acts of violence. Before him came Jared Lee Loughner. James Holmes. Anders Behring Breivik. At Virginia Tech, there was Seung-Hui Cho. The Unabomber. In 2012 there were 16 mass violence incidents where victims were indiscriminately killed in the United States. Why do these mass attack events seem to be happening with increasing frequency? What is the root cause? And what can be done?
Senior Vice President of National Security Policy Jamie Barnett, Jr., RDML USNR (Ret.), is a retired Navy admiral, a cyber security analyst, and a former Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. In an interview with Federal News Radio, he offered his observations on the top three challenges facing the Department of Defense in 2013. At the top of the list: critical gaps in oversight of the supply chain for the Pentagon's electronic systems. Click below to listen to the interview. Click here to read more.
The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies will host a program presented by the USMC Returning Commander speaker series on Wednesday, January 16, from 3-4:30 pm at the Institute, by the commanders of the USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (IWO JIMA ARG) and the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). During a nine-month deployment, CAPT Art Garcia, USN, and Col Frank Donovan, USMC, led a Navy-Marine Corps team that completed missions across the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, Africa and Southwest Asia. Registration is required: please see below for details.
The IWO JIMA ARG/24 MEU includes the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, the amphibious transport dock USS New York, and the amphibious dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall. More than 4,000 Sailors and Marines embarked in March 2012 on the deployment, which was extended in November amid ongoing turmoil in the Middle East.
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Amb. David Smith (Ret.) is the Director of the Potomac Institute Cyber Center. He is a cyber security and cyber policy analyst, and a former US arms negotiator. In an op-ed for Defense News entitled "Hackers Join the Fight," he writes that the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza not only made it clear that cyber attacks will be a part of warfare henceforth, but also marked the arrival of "warfare’s newest actor — the freelance cyber warrior." Click here to read the article in full.
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