Science and technology have been a cornerstone of the U.S. defense enterprise for more than a century. The Defense Science Board (DSB) was created in the mid-1950s to leverage science and technology ...

Like other commissions set up by Congress—such as the Cyberspace Solarium Commission that provided crucial cybersecurity measures—the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) was ...

We’re tackling biotechnology this month, a technology area with which AFCEA isn’t traditionally aligned. But we see a developing synergy between this burgeoning discipline and national security and ...

Jake Adler devoured science fiction when he was younger. He rocked an iPod Nano on his wrist — what he called an "early Apple Watch" — and wore Neurosity gear in his yearbook photos. Today, he helms ...

A recent audit of Pentagon funding of gain-of-function research outside the US “may have shielded” collaborations with Chinese biotech firms — including at least one linked to Beijing’s military, a ...

On Dec. 10, 2025, the House of Representatives passed a compromise version of the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), by a vote of 312 to 112. The legislation includes the ...

Advances in biotechnology, or “technology that applies to and/or is enabled by life sciences innovation or product development” (National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2022), present vast ...