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  • Cyber-Awareness Training Model

    How can the Air Force develop an adaptive, role-specific cyber-awareness training model that demonstrates greater effectiveness than the current annual training by building from foundational to complex concepts and illustrating the real-world consequences of security lapses?

  • Putin's Decision-Making Process

    How do the complex interplay of Vladimir Putin's personal history, centralized leadership style, inner circle of advisors, and strategic calculations influence his decision-making process, particularly regarding major geopolitical actions like the invasion of Ukraine?

  • SOF Targeting in Large-Scale Combat Operations

    How can SOF adapt its targeting processes, refined during two decades of counterterrorism, for the complexities of Large-Scale Combat Operations, by defining its unique contributions to the joint targeting process and leveraging advanced technologies for effective dynamic targeting in a multi-domain

  • Chinese Views of Specific U.S. Systems

    How does the People's Republic of China assess specific U.S. military systems, including the threat they pose and the development of countermeasures?

  • Chinese Views of U.S. Operations

    How does the People's Republic of China view U.S. military operations, and what lessons does it learn from them for its own strategic and operational development?

  • Effect-Based Metrics Posture

    How can modeling and simulation be used to develop heuristics that connect engineering-level improvements in aircraft fuel efficiency to operationally valued capabilities within campaign scenarios?

  • Cost Imposition in Strategic Competition

    How can the Department of the Air Force, informed by historical lessons and an understanding of PRC strategic sensitivities, leverage its investments in programs, postures, and concepts—particularly within the nuclear enterprise—to impose costs and create strategic dilemmas for China as

  • Strategic Basing

    Develop a relatively high-fidelity simulation of an average year of training for a unit (ideally KC-46 or F-35) to develop comparative metrics that can inform basing decisions for the aircraft fielding process.