Editor’s Note: As a part of our Beyond Offset initiative with the Center for a New American Security, we’re featuring a series of short interviews with leading experts on defense innovation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_p5VCsbjHo

Shawn Brimley is the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security. He co-authored, with Robert Work, the January 2014 report: Preparing for War in the Robotic Age, and co-directs the “Beyond Offset” initiative at CNAS.

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