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  • CASI Quarterly update #3 for 2025

    CASI Quarterly update #3 for 2025Click here for the PDF versionFriends of CASI,            This quarter once again saw a lot of work, a lot of travel, and a lot of research, along with some turnover.Stay tuned for more information on the 2026 CASI Conference in the coming months.CASI Researchers

  • CASI Quarterly update #2 for 2025

    CASI Quarterly update#2 for 2025Friends of CASI,            This quarter saw the biennial CMSI conference, which was a terrific event despite the challenges they faced.  Kudos to the whole CMSI team and the people who wrote papers for them.  We look forward to reading them all.  We alternate

  • CASI Quarterly update #1 for 2025

    Friends of CASI,            Yet another busy quarter to start off the year.  CASI remains actively engaged across the full spectrum of our Charter- Research, Warfighter Support, Education, and Engagement.  Let us know how CASI can support your mission.Personnel:             Things are steady for the

  • CASI Quarterly update #4 for 2023

    CASI Quarterly update#4 for 2023Friends of CASI,            We hope you all had a chance to enjoy some time with family and friends, and remembered those who can’t do so because they are deployed in service to our nation.  It has been another busy quarter for the CASI team, but that just means we

  • CASI Quarterly update #3 for 2023

    CASI Quarterly update#3 for 2023Friends of CASI,            While we watch the budget work its way through the process, we are still hard at work.  We wanted to take a chance and update you on all of the things CASI has been doing over the last three months. Personnel- We continue to work through

  • CASI Quarterly update #1 for 2023

    CASI Quarterly update#1 for 2023Friends of CASI,             CASI is super excited, and immensely proud, to announce that our very own MSgt Samantha Payne was selected as the Air University Senior NCO of the year! So it should be no surprise that she was also just selected for promotion to Senior

  • CASI Quarterly update #4 for 2022

    Friends of CASI,             What a year 2022 was.  Lots going on in China and across the globe.  We hope you all had a terrific holiday season, which of course continues into January with the year of the Rabbit starting on 22 January.  Here is our recap of what CASI was up to in the last quarter of

  • CASI Quarterly update #1 for 2022

    CASI Quarterly update #1 for 2022Friends of CASI,             CASI was approved for a new China-focused Intermediate Developmental Education (IDE) program that will begin in August 2023. CSAF authorized this new program to advance the Action Order-Competition task to “educate and train for

  • CASI Conference 2022- Great Power Competition & Deterrence

    CASI will hold its biennial CASI Conference Tuesday 17 May 2022 in person at National Defense University.  The conference is open for registration, and is free to attend.  More information can be found on the registration page at: CASI Conference 2022Tentative Schedule07:30-08:15

  • CASI Intermediate Developmental Education (IDE) Program

    The China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI) has been approved for a new China-focused Intermediate Developmental Education (IDE) program that will begin in August 2023.CSAF authorized this new program to advance the Action Order-Competition task to “educate and train for competition” by developing

  • Brigadization of the PLA Air Force

    In 2016, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) began to implement its 11th large-scale reorganization, including a 300,000-man force reduction. One key component of the reorganization was the PLA Air Force's (PLAAF) shift away from its traditional Division-Regiment system to a