Samuel Brannen

is a senior fellow in the International Security Program and director of the Risk and Foresight Group at CSIS. He previously served as director of A.T. Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council, where he advised CEOs on the business implications of global macro-trends, and was also a senior fellow at CSIS prior to that position.

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Opinion / Acquisition, Strategy

Bad Idea: Expecting the Private Sector to Drive Innovation in National Security

It’s bipartisan Washington gospel that America’s private sector will deliver the innovation the country needs. However, at the front-end of an era of rapid, disruptive technological change in which global competition is heating up, such expectation is increasingly a bad idea without a far more strategic, centralized, and White House-driven approach to the challenges ahead.