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Q Chaghtai

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Former Head of Marketing & Public Affairs at Legislogiq; Former Senior Marketing Manager at Accountable Tech; Former Senior Digital Manager at Groundwork Collaborative

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Brandie Nonnecke

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Annie O’Donnell

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Morgan C. Plummer

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Vinaya Sivakumar

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John Soroushian

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Jacqueline Viteznik

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Masha Winchell

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Research & Publications

POLICY BYTES • 2026

Minutes to Seconds to Machines Running the Whole Show

A naval intelligence officer aboard a destroyer in the South China Sea watches her console populate. The fused AI targeting system has correlated satellite imagery,...

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POLICY BYTES • 2026

The New Iron Triangle

The Iron Triangle of Painful Tradeoffs For decades, defense acquisition has operated under a simple constraint known as the iron triangle. Any program can optimize...

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