CASI Quarterly update #1 for 2024
Friends of CASI,
Yet another busy quarter to start off the year. The team at CASI continues to do great work, digging in to source material and providing top notch analysis, reporting, and support to senior leader and the force writ large. I couldn’t be prouder of the whole team.
Personnel:
As always, things are in flux with personnel. We are excited to welcome Ms. Qi Xiaoke, who will be joining us in April. We have two other positions that should be filled very shortly, we will announce them as soon as all of the AFPC paperwork is done.
We are going to have an opening for our MSgt position, Senior Enlisted Leader for Research, here at our NDU location. This position is currently being advertised, for reporting this summer (June/July timeframe). Please contact MSgt Dan Salisbury if you are interested, or need any more information.
CASI’s Fundamentals of the PLA Course:
We continue to have great interest in, and turn out for, our Fundamentals of the PLA Course. This quarter we held a course at NDU, and we conducted Mobile Training Teams to PACAF, and NATO’s Allied Command Transformation.
If you are interested in attending a future course, please sign up using the link: https://tinyurl.com/CASI-PLA-Fundamentals
If you are interested in hosting a mobile training team version of the three-day course, please let us know and we will find open space on the calendar to work with.
The course is free and open to all DoD and U.S. government employees, Allies, as well as civilian contractors working for the DoD. There is no requirement for a security clearance.
CASI Conference 2024: Tuesday, May 14th, 2024, at National Defense University.
We will have panels on PLA Aerospace, PLA Advanced Information programs, Allies and Partners, and PRC Space issues.
Sign up for info and updates at: https://tinyurl.com/CASI-Conference-2024
Recent Publications
- China-Russia Nuclear Industry Cooperation
- Organization of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)
- A Complex Systems Engineering Undertaking: The Qian Xuesen School of Systems Engineering
- Coercive Space Activities: The View From PRC Sources
- Chinese Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications
- Hacked in China
- PLA On Orbit Logistics
CASI is pleased to offer hard copies of CASI full reports for free. Please see our website at: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/CASI-Publications/
for the full list and for the order form. Please note- most of the articles and short reports are available in PDF only.
CASI’s “In Their Own Words” – Translations of PRC materials
- ITOW: On Maritime Strategic Access
CASI’s Media series
- Intelligence Matters Podcast: Chinese Cognitive Warfare
- Air Power Podcast: The Dragon Flies
Support to the Warfighter
- Briefed UPT instructors, students, and support staff at Vance AFB
- Briefed leadership team TRANSCOM
- Supported the Innovation Research Task Force
- Briefed DISA / JFHQ-DODIN
- Guest speaker for ODNI Education and Instructional Technology Expert Group
- Briefed USAF Talent Management Cell
- Panelist for the USAF Expeditionary Center’s INDOPACOM Working Group
- Guest speaker at U.S. Army Special Operations Command Workshop
- Briefed USAF Eaker Center staff
- Briefed Joint Base Charleston leadership and personnel
- Guest speaker at AFMC CC Conference
- Featured speaker at New Jersey National Guard Annual Summit
- Briefed Columbus AFB personnel
- Briefed AETC JAG Training event at Maxwell AFB
- Briefed Joint Task Force Staff Basic Course at Maxwell AFB
- Briefed 366th Fighter Wing
- Met with Deputy Commander at PACAF
- Supported STRATCOM Title X wargame
- Supported USAF Title X wargame
- Met with 688 CW Wing Commander
- Supported INDOPACOM event analysis event
- Briefing to Delta 18
Education
- Guest speaker at Defense Financial Management & Comptroller School
- Supported Wisconsin ANG Leadership Development Event
- Supported case study for Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course
- Guest speaker at four NCO Academy courses
- Guest lecturer at State Department Foreign Service Institute
- Briefed Tyndall AFB Leadership Development Summit
- Briefed ISR 200 Professional Military Education course at Maxwell AFB
- Guest lecturer at ACSLC course
- Delivered Strategy Seminar at Air War College
- Guest speaker for Moody AFB professional development event
- Conducted PRC 101 Training with AFROTC Cadets at University of Alabama
- Featured speaker at Combined Forces Air Component Commander Course
- Guest speaker at the Kenney Airpower Strategy Seminar
- Meeting with Counter-small UAS team at SOCOM
Engagement and Outreach
In addition to providing support to the Department of the Air Force staff, CASI has had another busy quarter supporting the USAF and the DoD, as well as our allies, partners, and friends. CASI:
- Met with AU Innovation Research Task Force
- Engaged with U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
- Supported AFA Air Warfare Symposium
- Participated in OSINT Summit, Japan
- Briefed Wisconsin AFROTC Cadets and Staff
- Visited Japanese Air Self Defense Force Command and Staff College
- Participated in China’s Law of the Sea seminar
- Met with the Head of Capability Strategy, and the Director Capability & Programmes, Royal Air Force
- Participated in nuclear issue TTX
- Met with the PRC DATT and Military Attache
- Met with JASDF Air and Space Studies Institute
- Met with Japan’s MOD Chief of Strategic Intelligence Analysis team
- Met with Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies
- Met with Chief of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force
- Met with U.S. embassy and Defense Attache Office Japan
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