Register for the 4th Annual TIDES Fall Demo

Registration is now open for the 4th annual STAR-TIDES Fall field demonstration in Washington, DC at the National Defense University (NDU) campus from Tuesday, October 5 to Friday, October 8.
This event will be live all week, so please feel free to visit anytime during normal working hours to interact, see, and discuss the policies, practices, technologies, and organizations that affect Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief, Stabilization and Reconstruction, Building Partnership Capacity, and Defense Support to Civil Authorities. All activities will be independent of the power grid, and communications will be live. Register here.

Dr. Paul Bartone Receives "Outstanding Paper Award"

Dr. Paul Bartone, CTNSP Senior Research Fellow has received a prestigious award from Emerald Literati Network, Emerald Group Publishing in the UK. The award is for the most outstanding paper published in one of their journals in 2009. His article entitled, "Big five personality factors hardiness and social judgement as predictors of leader performance" published in Leadership and Organizational Development Journal has been chosen as an Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010.

New Publications

Bio-Inspired Innovation and National Security
Despite the vital importance of the emerging area of biotechnology and its role in defense planning and policymaking, no definitive book has been writtenn on the topic for the defense policymaker, the military student, and the private-sector bioscientist interested in the "emerging opportunities market" of national security. This edited volume is intended to help close this gap and provide the necessary backdrop for thinking strategically about biology in defense planning and policymaking.

A Policymaker’s Guide to Bioterrorism and What to Do About It
Richard Danzig argues that preventing terrorist organizations from acquiring and using biological weapons and related materials is one of the most important challenges facing policymakers today. In this new report, Danzig describes the character and magnitude of the risk biological terrorism poses and identifies the factors that differentiate bioterrorism from other modes of terrorism. He comments on why biological terrorism has not yet emerged as an important instrument of terror and offers judgments about the likelihood of its manifestation.

Defense Business Transformation
This seminal work addresses some of the shortfalls and inefficiencies that burden the Department of Defense’s (DoD) business systems. Leaders in the field of technology and defense policy, Jacques Gansler and William Lucyshyn provide a fresh look at and novel solutions to what has become one of the DoD’s most vexing problem. Drawing lessons from past efforts at reform, the work provides recommendations for the improvement of systems development, management, senior leadership, and governance. This a joint publication with the Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise (CPPPE).

QDR: The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review states, “[the Department of Defense] must remain cognizant of underlying global forces and trends that will significantly alter the contours of the international system.” Fighting Chance is an examination of strategic trends, how they relate to the national security environment, and how we must prepare for them.

TIDES 4th Annual Outdoor Field Demonstration Washington DC
5-8 October 2010