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Building and Keeping the Cyber Force: The Human Infrastructure of National Security

We talk about cyber infrastructure as networks, sensors, and platforms, and we fund it accordingly. The workforce that ...
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The Pendulum Swing of AI Adoption

We are living in an unprecedented era of technological disruption. AI is reshaping how we live, work, and think faster than ...
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ICIT Welcomes Jerry L. Davis, Founder of Gryphon X, as a New ICIT Fellow

Jerry L. Davis, founder of Gryphon X, is a seasoned technology and cybersecurity executive with over two decades of leadership experience spanning government and industry. He has served multiple times ...
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When Trust Has No Security, AI Risks Everything

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming embedded into the operational core of healthcare, finance, critical infrastructure, government, and enterprise decision-making. Organizations are deploying ...
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The Hidden Infrastructure Powering America’s Markets: Concentration, Interdependency, and Systemic Risk in U.S. Financial Infrastructure

The resilience of this foundation is not only a government or operator responsibility. Financial institutions, investors, boards, and market participants all have a direct stake in ensuring that the ...
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The Harness Gap: Orchestration, Defensive Parity, and the Closing Window for Critical Infrastructure AI Governance

demonstrated the ability to autonomously discover thousands of high- and critical severity software vulnerabilities, including previously unknown zero-days in production code dating back decades. The ...
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Identity Security: In the Critical Path for Agent Deployment

improve business opportunities by both lowering operating costs and driving business growth. Critical path for agent deployment at scale includes a fundamental redesign of identity security ...
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Acquisition Reform Is Materializing, but the Harder Test Still Lies Ahead

The Hon. Michael Duffey’s, the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment (USW(A&S)), March 2026 testimony shows the same logic still driving the effort, with “solutions-based” acquisition ...
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Iran and the Expanding Cyber Front: What Government Leaders Need to Know

When conflict escalates in the Middle East, the battlefield is never limited to geography. It extends into energy grids, government networks, transportation systems, and financial infrastructure. The ...
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Entangled Migrations PQC, QKD, and US–PRC Risk Postures for Critical Infrastructure

The ICIT Quantum-Resilient Convergence paper established that Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) migration and AI/Low Earth Orbit (LEO) infrastructure modernization are a single coupled program, and that ...
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The Drone Gap: Why the U.S. Industrial Base Continues to Fall Behind in a World at War by Drone

In an earlier article last summer, "America's blind spot as drone production surges globally," I argued that U.S. counter-drone policy was falling well behind the pace of technological and ...