Research Summaries

Back CWMD Research and Education for the SOF Community-2

Fiscal Year 2020
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Defense Analysis
Investigator(s) Volpe, Tristan A.
Sponsor Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, Countering WMD Systems Office (DoD)
Summary The efforts outlined here build off of previous work executed successfully under the auspices of the project, AE22CWMD Research and Education for the SOF Community," for the Office of the Deputy+AE28Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control, CWMD Systems Office by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Defense Analysis (DA) Department on counter-proliferation (CP) and countering weapons of mass destruction (CWMD). These include the establishment of a formal educational track for special operations forces (SOF) students within the DA Special Operations and Irregular Warfare curriculum on the study of counter-proliferation theories, tools, and policies; foundational student research on key issues that impact the role and added value of SOF to the CP/CWMD community; student engagement opportunities established and promoted by NPS faculty with key U.S. stakeholders in the field; and top-notch faculty research advancing new theories for how states leverage the threat of proliferation to compel concessions from stronger powers. Similarly, this project has seeded new research on the impact of emerging technologies on the SOF community, leading to the development"through student and faculty-teaming"of a new SOF innovation curriculum that will examine the attributes and impact of the proliferation of emerging technologies as both national security threats and opportunities, and the institutional and cultural challenges of technology acquisition and integration by the U.S. defense and national security community. All of these efforts remain timely as USSOCOM endeavors to understand and shape the upstream CP/CWMD and emerging technology environment. This project leverages the operational expertise, academic rigor, and strategic focus of the DA Department to enable and accelerate the delivery of key analytical and information management capabilities related to CP/CWMD and related emerging technologies; to develop new operational concepts; and to strengthen collaboration between the SOF community, the CP/CWMD community, and related communities of practice.
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