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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.

April 27, 2022

A View from the CT Foxhole: Lawrence Kerr, Former Director, Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats, Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel

A New Age of Bioterror: Anticipating Exploitation of Tunable Viral Agents

Stephen Hummel, F. John Burpo, Jeremy Hershfield, Andrew Kick, Kevin J. O’Donovan, Jason Barnhill

March 31, 2022

Examining Digital Currency Usage by Terrorists in Syria

Audrey Alexander, Teddy MacDonald

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