The United Nations reports nearly 40% of the world’s population experiences severe water scarcity each year, with 700 million people at risk of displacement by 2030. …

This article relies solely on publicly available information and does not reflect the views of the Department of Defense. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV, is an experimental test program to demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the U.S. Air Force, now the U.S…

The Central Military Commission (CMC) of the People’s Republic of China is the highest national defense organization in China. The CMC is chaired by Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and has control over 6.8 million personnel. The CMC is the armed wing of the…

In 2019, the European Space Agency reported the number of orbiting space debris at greater than 1 meter was about 5,400 objects. Approximately 34,000 objects were larger than 10 centimeters (which includes 2,000 active satellites). There were 900,000 objects greater than 1 centimeter and 130 million objects greater than 1…

Renaissance Technologies (RenTec), led by Jim Simons, is an American hedge fund specializing in systematic trading using quantitative models derived from mathematical and statistical analysis.

Andrew W. Lo, a professor of Finance at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, discovered that application of financial engineering can help mitigate risks in biopharma investments. Eroom’s Law is the number of drugs approved by the FDA each year divided by the amount of investments spent in…

With the growing demand for human space flight, understanding the process of Supply Chain Management (SCM) beyond Earth is critical to interplanetary missions. In simple terms, SCM is the handling of the entire production flow of a good or service to maximize quality, delivery, customer experience and profitability.

You may have heard of quantum computers and have thought, “what is the difference between that and my computer?” In reality, quantum computers will be the revolutionary technology that can solve problems that were once thought to be unsolvable. With the capacity of being 100 million times more powerful than…

This article reviews the history and the growing geopolitical tensions in the South China Sea, and how China is using its military presence in the Space and Cyberspace Domain to catapult their domination in air, land, and sea. …