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pla update: Issue 20, April 30, 2024

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PLA Update, Issue 20, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

warfighting domains, the authors stressed the need to provide timely warnings and detect strategic threats early, strengthen emergency and crisis management mechanisms, and respond to gray zone crises ... participate in major international governance issues such as artificial intelligence (AI) control, space debris management, and deep sea environmental protection. They also recommended contributing to the formulation of international rules in matters such as AI standards, space traffic management, and marine protection regulations; providing "international governance public security products

pla update: Issue 19, March 22, 2024

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PLA Update, Issue 19, is a CNA China Studies Program monthly newsletter, with summaries of Chinese media coverage of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

between the CMC Logistic Support Department and CUFE. Source: CUFE . The PLA's logistics management administration is looking to civilian universities to help train the military's financial ... Ships in Red Sea A statement from a PRC official and data from a PRC shipping company support the claim that PLAN ships have stayed outside the Red Sea and kept within their traditional area ... . One such report from the Voice of America cited data published on the website of the PRC shipping company Sea Legend. A plotting of the coordinates on the company's website indicates, however

Lessons on Safety Culture from Private-Sector Safety Executives

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CNA engaged with senior safety leaders at 21 major corporations and synthesized 14 key findings and leadership actions to improve US military safety.

in conversational forums Develop a Department-wide Safety Conversation Series Senior management receives safety-specific training Ensure that new leaders receive rigorous safety- focused training ... Technology plays a critical role in reporting Require electronic data collection and reporting EHS data is collected and reported but not often used for predictive analysis Incorporate advanced data analytics to forecast safety trends Private-sector entities have access to financial resources necessary to address safety issues; thus, they do not discretely budget for safety

Estimated Effects of Facility Quality SROTC Recruitment Retention

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This paper summarizes the research that CNA performed to understand how Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (SROTC) facility conditions may disproportionately affect SROTC recruitment and retention at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs).

and recruitment of students in higher education to build the methodology and approach of the current study. Our approach comprises three parts: Assessing aggregated SROTC recruitment and retention data ... quality assessment indicate that nearly 100 percent of SROTC programs in our sample report at least one facility issue. Based on our data call, the most commonly reported issues relate to capacity ... that the services use to assess individual SROTC program success or viability [2]. We suggest that viability assessment measures be reviewed for inclusion of these data. We found that, because

Center for Enterprise Systems Modernization

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Building highly skilled teams to deliver transformative technology solutions and strategies tailored to our clients' challenges and operations.

aircraft systems traffic management operations that will support management and data communications for the FAA and NASA. In partnership with our clients, we build and improve the software security ... transportation and aviation to cybersecurity and crisis management.  Transforming information systems with cutting-edge solutions to support the client’s mission is a primary focus of our center ... Management Empowered by Predictive Analytics ISAAC® stands for Indicator for Schedule Analysis And Cost. This tool, built by CNA, gets your project back on track by magnifying inconsistencies

Women-in-Service-Restrictions

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CNA conducted an independent review of the Marine Corps existing policies related to women in ground combat providing information to help make an informed decision about (1) whether to change existing policies and (2) effects of prospective policy changes on recruiting, retention, manpower management, and training processes.

make an informed decision about (1) whether to change existing policies and (2) effects of prospective policy changes on recruiting, retention, manpower management, and training processes. In January ... to help inform a decision about: Whether to change existing policies The effects of prospective policy changes on recruiting, retention, manpower management, and training processes. During this study, we conducted extensive literature reviews; interviewed subject matter experts from other countries’ militaries, other organizations, and the Marine Corps; and conducted data analysis

Identifying and Mitigating Risks

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Summarizes the steps that can help guide nuclear powers, and militaries overall, to have AI applications reduce risks associated with nuclear operations

, shortcomings in AI training data, poor alignment between AI tools and tasks, and adversarial action against AI systems. These challenges could cause AI to perform unpredictably, increasing nuclear risk ...  applications in nuclear operations. These could include active risk management steps within the US nuclear operations community, engagement with allies and competitors, and agreements among nuclear powers ...  during training, data curation and algorithm design; and capturing and acting upon lessons learned. Applied efforts on risk mitigation of AI applications in military operations. The US military

CNA’S INTEGRATED PROGRAM MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY

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CNA’s Integrated Program Management (IPM) methodology provides actionable predictive insights on cost performance, scheduling, and achievement of project goals. CNA’s IPM methodology empowers our clients to solve problems before they occur to ensure successful completion of projects on time and within budget.

ISAAC CNA’s Integrated Program Management (IPM) methodology provides actionable predictive insights on cost performance, scheduling, and achievement of project goals. CNA’s IPM methodology empowers ... work hand-in-hand with government program management offices to analyze program goals and milestones in the context of the organization’s strategy and against inter-dependent programs across ... . PREDICTIVE INSIGHTS Our methodology combines predictive analytics on programmatic data with direct and indirect program observations to provide key insights, identify potential risks, and deliver

The Evolution of Gender Integration in the Department of the Navy

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CNA surveyed the events, policies, and research that surrounded increase in female representation in the Navy and identified three phases of gender integration that delineate the DON’s evolving approach to women’s roles in its forces.

Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller), CNA surveyed the events, policies, and research that surrounded this increase in female representation. In the course of our investigation ... . The DON raised only a few issues to resolve analytically, due to a lack of appropriate data and a sense that the question of whether and how women should serve was mostly a political and social issue ... are the readiness and cost implications of pregnancy? How large is the gender retention gap, and what are its costs? How can the DON use targeted compensation as a force management tool, regardless

china ai and autonomy report: Issue 13, April 21, 2022

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The China AI and Autonomy Report, issue 13, is a biweekly newsletter published by CNA, on artificial intelligence and autonomy in China.

2022 Comprehensive Governance of Algorithms"-a campaign to ensure that corporate algorithms comply with the recently adopted Internet Information Service Algorithmic Recommendation Management ... " of his work on deduplicating training data for language models and "copied from at least a dozen other papers." [10] Carlini's original paper described "deduplication tools" to improve ... ] Katherine Lee, Daphne Ippolito, Andrew Nystrom, Chiyuan Zhang, Douglas Eck, Chris Callison-Burch, Nicholas Carlini, "Deduplicating Training Data Makes Language Models Better," arXiv, Mar. 24, 2022, https