Director:  Dr. James Giordano

The INSS Center for Disruptive Technology and Future Warfare (CDTFW) produces cutting edge research on disruptive technologies and future warfare, to include artificial intelligence and autonomous and semi-autonomous weapons systems and assesses the implications for defense and national security policy and strategy. The CDTFW works at the intersection of technology and defense strategy and policy.

CDTFW focuses efforts on current and near-term developments and uses of artificial intelligence/cyber systems; autonomous and semi-autonomous weapons systems; novel and emerging biological, chemical, and electromagnetic weapons; quantum systems, and nanoengineered materials and devices; and assesses the implications of these technologies for the operational capabilities, health, and optimization of the joint warfighter; current and near-future warfighting; and national security policy and strategy.