The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Spring 2012 Focus newsletter features a cover story on the new book by ICTS Director Yonah Alexander and Institute CEO Michael Swetnam, Al-Qai'da: Ten Years After 9/11 and Beyond.  The book traces the terrorist group's development since the 9/11 attacks and since the death of its founder, Usama bin Laden.  Also in this issue:  a look at the new Potomac Institute Cyber Center, an interview with VP for Academic Programs Jim Giordano on his Fulbright Visiting Professorship in Germany, and highlights of this year's ICTS annual terrorism review.  Click on the attachment below to read the issue in full.

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Summer 2011 Focus newsletter features a cover story on the Institute's response to the death of Usama bin Laden.  Institute experts were in-demand media commentators in the wake of Bin Laden's death. Also in this issue:  an interview with historian Williamson "Wick" Murray, on his new book The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy, and War, and an overview of the CNS-sponsored conference on Ethical Issues in the Use of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology in National Defense.   Click on the attachment below to read the newsletter in full.

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Fall 2011 Focus newsletter features a cover story on "Lean Times as Opportunity: The Case for S&T When Defense Budgets Shrink."  In this article, the Director of the Institute's Concepts and Analyses Division, Dwight Lyons, talks about the need to save research and development efforts from the chopping block as the Pentagon is forced to make hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of budget cuts. Also in this issue:  an interview with CETO's Dr. Bill Powers on the future of unmanned vehicle systems in the Marine Corps, an overview of the Institute's new Innovation series, and a look at the Navy's Cyber Federal Executive Fellowship program, which is housed here at the Institute and at Carnegie Mellon University.

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Spring 2011 Focus newsletter features a cover story on the Institute's new Cyber Challenge series of symposia.  These programs bring together experts in a variety of disciplines to examine the challenge of maintaining security while upholding civil liberties and maintaining privacy and functionality in the new cyber world.  Click the attachment below to open and read the Spring 2011 Focus.