Projects
The Gordian Knot Center is committed to solving national security challenges at the speed of relevance. To that end the Center is empowering faculty, staff, and students to create and scale projects that address today's challenges. A selection of the Center's projects's can be found below:
WINS
WINS, or Women in National Security, is a program designed to combat the pressing challenge of female underrepresentation in national security.
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Project Myoushu
Project Myoushu seeks to develop more effective tools to shine a light into the gray zone of China’s maritime coercion strategy in the South China Sea.
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Project Kai
Project Kai aims to develop knowledge frameworks, toolkits, and datasets on Chinese espionage and make them accessible to researchers, investigators, and policymakers.
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Project MinervAI
Project MinervAI will explore how the explosion of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT in the commercial sphere might catalyze a revolution in the national security workforce's knowledge work.
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Project Wēishè
Launched out of the Defense Innovation Scholar program and GKC directed readings, Project Wēishè encourages scholarship on the capabilities, strategies, organization, and reforms of the PLA, PFP, and PAFMM’s defense acquisition systems and the political, economic, and industrial actors that inform its development.
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Project Narsil
Project Narsil's goal is to explore security use cases for Artificial Intelligence, especially from a privacy and ethics perspective.
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Project Rubicon
Project Rubicon’s goal is to examine the complex relationship between private enterprise and military interests in space, analyzing the potential risks, current policies, and potential solutions to this rapidly evolving landscape.
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Vector Report
Vector Report was launched during the Defense Innovation Scholar program by a group of students and aims to demystify the defense technology sector through incisive case studies and thoughtful analysis about defense technology.
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Chiral Defense
Chiral Defense is a weekly newsletter that covers venture capital rounds, M&A, and IPO activity in defense-adjacent industries including space, cyber, autonomy, quantum computing, and AI/ML.
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