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Innovation & Technology

To level the playing field against states that have more resources and hold much more power terrorists need to innovate and use technology in creative and enterprising ways. We have written reports and articles about terrorists’ use of encrypted communication tools, weaponization of commercially-available drones, and other topics. See below for details.

January 27, 2022

A View from the CT Foxhole: Amy Zegart, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Don Rassler, Brian Fishman

December 22, 2021

The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the “Skull Mask” Neo-Fascist Network

H.E. Upchurch

October 14, 2021

Commentary: Data, AI, and the Future of U.S. Counterterrorism: Building an Action Plan

Don Rassler

September 8, 2021

Twenty Years After 9/11: What Is the Future of the Global Jihadi Movement?

Colin Clarke

November 20, 2020

Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

October 22, 2020

A View from the CT Foxhole: Drew Endy, Associate Chair, Bioengineering, Stanford University

Stephen Hummel, Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler

August 31, 2020

Engineered Pathogens and Unnatural Biological Weapons: The Future Threat of Synthetic Biology

J. Kenneth Wickiser, Kevin J. O’Donovan, Michael Washington, Stephen Hummel, F. John Burpo

June 29, 2020

Pandemic Preparedness: A U.K. Perspective on Overlaps with Countering Terrorism

Nikita Malik

May 29, 2020

The Controller: How Basil Hassan Launched Islamic State Terror into the Skies

Mette Mayli Albæk, Puk Damsgård, Mahmoud Shiekh Ibrahim, Troels Kingo, Jens Vithner

April 28, 2020

Operation Silves: Inside the 2017 Islamic State Sydney Plane Plot

Andrew Zammit

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