Published Articles & Reports

“U.S. China Competition:  The Battle for Technology Leadership,” Council on Global Competition and Innovation Newsletter, May 1, 2025.

“The Empty Arsenal of Democracy: How America Can Build a New Defense Industrial Base,” Foreign Affairs, April 22, 2025.

“Thriving Amid Chaos:  Defense Tech Poised to Scale,” Forbes, March 11, 2025.

“Memo to Congress:  Pass the Forged Act,” Forbes, February 7, 2025. 

“The Private Sector on the Frontline:  Big Tech and the Risky Blurring of Commercial and Security Interests,” co-authored with Matt Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, January 31, 2025. 

“Defense Tech Scaling New Heights with Incoming Administration,” Forbes, January 3, 2025.

“The Path Forward for Unmanned Systems,” co-authored with Christine Fox, Robert Work, Steve Blank, Justin Norman and Michael Brasseur, Subcommittee on Unmanned Systems Final Report for Navy Science & Technology Board, December 3, 2024.

“Government Incentives Could Better Stimulate Innovation,” November 18, 2024.

“How Federal Programs Affect Venture Capital Investment in Tech,” Forbes, November 17, 2024.

“How Venture Capital Assesses Tech Companies Today,” Forbes, November 17, 2024.

“Revitalizing the U.S. Innovation System,” Forbes, November 16, 2024.

“Why Venture Capital Is Indispensable for U.S. Industrial Strategy,” co-authored with Pavneet Singh, Institute for Security and Technology, October 2020.

“Integration for Innovation: A Report of the Center for a New American Security Defense Technology Task Force,” co-authored with Robert Work, Ellen Lord and Andrew Metrick, Center for a New American Security, www.cnas.org, September 2024.

“Defense Acquisition Tradecraft: Commercial Capability for Warfighters,” Forbes, August 5, 2024.

“Defense Innovation Inflection Point?” Forbes, May 25, 2024.

“A Plan to Revitalize the Arsenal of Democracy,” War on the Rocks, May 10, 2024

“Time—The Forgotten Dimension in Defense,” Forbes, April 26, 2024.

“Innovation Adoption for All: Scaling across the Department of Defense,” co-authored with Robert Work and Ellen Lord, War on the Rocks, April 3, 2024

“The Big Disconnect: Defense R&D and Warfighter Capabilities,” Forbes, March 26, 2024.

“Defense Innovation Depends on a 60 Year Old Budgeting System,” Forbes, March 21, 2024.

“Capitalism Can Revive the Defense Industrial Base,” Forbes, March 18, 2024.

“Defense Budgeting: The Unrecognized National Security Risk,” Chapter 10, Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak, edited by Michael Boskin, John Rader and Kiran Sridhar, Hoover Institution Press, November 1, 2023.

“Revisiting the Hedge Strategy with Renewed Urgency,” co-authored with Rear Admiral (ret) Lorin Selby, War on the Rocks, September 7, 2023.

“The Real Contest with China: Washington Needs a Comprehensive Strategy to Outpace Beijing,” co-authored with Rob Atkinson, Foreign Affairs, August 28, 2023.

”Taiwan’s Urgent Task:  A Radical New Strategy To Keep China Away,” Foreign Affairs, January 25, 2023.

“Time To Defend Taiwan Is Running Out: Why the Pentagon Must Focus on Near-Term Deterrence,” co-authored with Michele Flournoy, Foreign Affairs, September 14, 2022.

“A Hedge Strategy To Strengthen Defense Capabilities,” co-authored with Rear Admiral Lorin Selby (USN) and Pavneet Singh, Defense Innovation Unit, U.S. Department of Defense, July 2022.

“A Fast Follower Strategy for the Department of Defense,” co-authored with Pavneet Singh, Defense Innovation Unit, U.S. Department of Defense, May 2022.

“Preparing the U.S. for the Superpower Marathon with China,” co-authored with Eric Chewning and Pavneet Singh, Brookings Institution, April 2020.

“China’s Technology Transfer Strategy: How Chinese Investments in Emerging Technology Enable A Strategic Competitor to Access the Crown Jewels of U.S. Innovation,” co-authored with Pavneet Singh for the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, U.S. Department of Defense, January 2018.