CASI Quarterly update #4 for 2022

Friends of CASI,
 

            What a year 2022 was.  Lots going on in China and across the globe.  We hope you all had a terrific holiday season, which of course continues into January with the year of the Rabbit starting on 22 January.  Here is our recap of what CASI was up to in the last quarter of 2022. 

CASI’s Fundamentals of the PLA Course- We held our 9th iteration of our Fundamentals of the PLA course, all to rave reviews.  The course is free and open to all DoD and U.S. government employees, as well as civilian contractors working for the DoD.  There is no requirement for a security clearance.  The next iteration will likely be sometime in the Spring and will be held at NDU.  If you are interested in attending, please email us at PLA-Fundamentals@CASI-Research.Org We also have the ability to support via mobile training teams if your organization provides the TDY funding.

CSAF announces launch of CASI Commander’s Toolkit for China.  As part of CSAF’s Action Order- Competition, CASI developed a suite of tools to help our Airmen and Guardians, from E-1 to O-10, better understand our pacing challenge, China.  This resource is openly available and is intended to help all Airmen and Guardians, as well as allies, partners, and others, understand the nature of competition with China, the challenges that the PRC poses, and how China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its armed wing, the People’s Liberation Army, are organized and focused on the future.  You can find it at: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/toolkit

Recent Publications

1. Effective Control
2. ITOW: Research on Port Landing Operations
3. History of China’s Robotic Lunar Program
4. China is Building a Blue Army in the Metaverse
5. PLA Rocket Force Organization
6. Strategic Ambiguity and the Deterrent Value of the Sino-Russian Partnership
7. ITOW: Report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
8. Sichuan Tengden Technology: Privately Owned, State Sponsored
9. Preparing the People’s Liberation Army Militia for War
10. The Centralization of the PLA Air Force’s Basic and Technical Training
11. An Exploratory Analysis of the Chinese Hypersonics Research Landscape
12. PLA Blows Hot and Cold over U.S. Air Force’s Multirole Heavy Aircraft

  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 has delivered more than 9,000 copies of the CASI Primer on PLA Aerospace Power to the USAF, USAFR, ANG, USSF, MajComs, and other DoD and USG organizations.  Let us know if you need copies for your organization.

CASI’s Competition with China video series

1.  CASI Webinar on the CCP's 20th Party Congress

Support to the Warfighter

1. Featured speaker at Air Force Maintenance Leaders Summit
2. Supported CSAF’s speechwriters on multiple topics related to China
3. Featured speaker at the Torch and Dagger conference (AETC and AFSOF)
4. Delivered briefing to the National Intelligence Council 
5. Worked with the HAF Reserve Strategy Team
6. Supported effort to leverage China expertise in the USAF IMA force
7. Supported USAF Fellows & A5/7 Unpacking the Taiwan/Ukraine Comparison event
8. Met with DAO London
9. Consulted intelligence personnel at Air Materiel Command regarding analysis of China and the PLA
10. Supported 412 Operations Group Commander’s Group

Education

1. Briefed entire Cadet Wing at USAFA on China and the PLA
2. Provided USAFA 4500 copies of the CASI Primer on PLA Aerospace Power, enough for one for each cadet.  This publication in now being incorporated into the basic syllabus.
3. Delivered lecture to ACSLC course
4. Supported SJIOAC
5. Featured panelist at ACSC Strategic Competition Forum
6. Briefed Department of the Air Force fellows
7. Lectured on Strategic Competition w/ China to 10+ S/NCOA classes (1000+ Airmen)
8. Featured speaker at Air Force Senior Leader Course
9. Delivered ACSC elective course on China
10. Featured panelist for ACSC Strategic Competition Symposium

 Engagement and Outreach
     In addition to providing support to Air Force staff, CASI has had another busy quarter supporting the USAF and the DoD, as well as our allies, partners, and friends. CASI:

1. Participated in the USAF LREC Symposium
2. Participated in Great Power Competition in the 21st Century: The Struggle for Technological, Economic, and Strategic Supremacy 
3. Hosted exchanges with the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force
4. Met with DASD-China to discuss research topics
5. Met with delegation from Taiwan’s Integrated Analysis center
6. Held discussions with RAF RCO office
7. Held session with FVEY partners
8. Participated in meetings with the Freeman Institute/ King’s College London
9. Met with UK MOD DIA
10. Met with UK Space Command
11. Featured presenter at Air and Missile Defense Conference
12. Featured presenter at CAPS-RAND-NDU-USIP PLA Conference
13. Met with NDU College of Information and Cyberspace Professor Elena Bailey
14. Met with former Czech Republic Cyber Attaché Michael Thim
15. Highlighted publications at AFA 2022 Air, Space & Cyber Conference exhibition hall
16. Participated in RAF’s 601 Royal Auxiliary Squadron event
17. Met with former Ambassador to Estonia and current Institute of World Politics President Aldona Wos

 Ongoing         

1. Began project to support RAF RCO efforts
2. Continued exchange with representatives of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force’s Air Command and Staff College concerning deepening partnership. Discussions comprise exchanging personnel as well as formalizing the mutual translation and publication of each side’s research
3. Exchange with Czech Republic Cyber Attache

Events Attended

1. US-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference 2022
2. Innovate to Dominate, Chinese technology, book launch
3. 1st Annual Spacepower Security Forum
4. Evaluating China’s Post-20th Party Congress Leadership Lineup
5. Implications of China’s Nuclear Modernization and Expansion
6. Attended reception at the Japanese ambassador’s residence celebrating the 68th anniversary of the foundation of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces
7. Military Satellite Communications Conference
8. West Coast Aerospace Forum
9. B-21 Launch event
10. NDU College of Information and Cyberspace’s Cyber Beacon Conference
11. Cyber Embassy Night with Ambassador Nathaniel Fick, U.S. Department of State Ambassador at Large of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.
12. Attended 3rd Annual Metaverse Safety Week Conference
13. Institute of World Politics “PRC Cyberattacks on Taiwan”.
14. Military Cyber Professionals Association Board of Advisors Dinner
15. RAND West Coast Aerospace Forum

CASI continues its close relationship and holds regular meetings with the HAF and SAF representatives, making sure that our research is policy and plans relevant.
 

Personnel  

We have several positions open.  If you, or anyone you know, is interested, please get in touch with us.

      CASI Director of Warfighter Engagement

CASI Director of Education (at Air University)

CASI Researcher (GS-12 at NDU)

We are in the process of working through AFPC to get these positions announced.  Please keep an eye on USAJobs for further information.
 

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