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CASI Quarterly update #4 for 2024

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Friends of CASI,
            As we close out 2024, we are excited to report on another busy quarter and look forward to another busy year coming up.   We are hoping to add a couple more people to the team in 2025, more on that later in the year.  We are already booking out to July and August for our Mobile Education Teams, and warfighter support plan, so it will be a busy 2025 indeed (and that’s before the PLA has a say in things).  And we have plenty of research underway and planned for 2025. 

            We would also like to recognize our own Josh Baughman, who was awarded the Military Cyber Professionals Gold Order of Thor Medal, the highest MCPA  level award recognizing “excellence and the greatest contributions to the military cyber community.  Well done Josh!

            Here is wishing you all a 新年快乐!

Personnel:

            We’d like to welcome our new Superintendent of Education, MSgt Stephen Loeh, who joined us this quarter. A career Chinese-Mandarin language analyst, he has served in various analytic roles supporting Air Force missions and most recently served as Senior Analyst for the Pacific Tactics and Adversary Studies Element.

CASI’s PLA Fundamentals Course:

We continue to have great interest in, and turn out for, our three-day PLA Fundamentals Course.  This quarter we held well-attended mobile education team courses at Fort Meade, MD, Joint Base Lewis-McChord in WA, Nellis AFB, NV, and an in-house course at National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, D.C. 

The next NDU in-house PLA Fundamentals course will be 24-26 February, 2025.  If you are interested in attending that course, please sign up at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdh6dyTqgxLbhT21R0C_vQ6Tl_57NrEyA6_ViXqKqfrVk4GPg/viewform

If you are interested in attending a future PLA Fundamentals course at NDU (held quarterly), please sign up using the following link: https://forms.office.com/r/A5UaLWXuuz

If you are interested in hosting a Mobile Education Team (MET) version of the PLA Fundamentals course, let us know and we will do our best to find open space on the calendar to support your organization.  Please be aware that due to high demand, we are currently booked out through FY 2025, so we are already looking at late 2025 and early 2026 dates for our next availability. The PLA Fundamentals course is free to attend (TDY costs only if traveling to NDU or TDY costs for the CASI SMEs traveling for the MTT version) and open to all DoD and U.S. government employees, Allies, as well as civilian contractors working for the DoD.  There is no security clearance requirement. 

Recent Publications

  1. Charting the Course: How the PLA's Expected Regional and Global Strategies Should Influence the U.S. Air Force's Lines of Efforts
  2. “Modernization of Fighter Pilot Training in the PLA Air Force Proceeds Apace” Article was also featured in Air and Space Forces Magazine.
  3. China’s Different Approach to Space Situational Awareness
  4. “PLAN Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft: Sensors, Weapons, and Operations” report  written for a China Maritime Studies Institute conference was translated into Chinese and published on the Taiwan Navy Command’s website
  5. Sichuan Tengden Technology Develops UAVs for Possible ASW Mission and Expands Production
  6. The Path to China’s Intelligentized Warfare

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.
 

Support to the Warfighter

  1. Keynote speaker at the 505th CCW Commander’s Conference
  2. Guest lecturer at Utah State University AFROTC Detachment 
  3. Guest lecturer at Cal State San Bernardino AFROTC Detachment 
  4. Guest lecturer and participant at the 16th AF Information Operations Tactics Assessment Conference
  5. Participated in workshop on understanding Russia and China's views of deterrence
  6. Guest lecturer at the ACC/A1 FSS Commanders’ Summit
  7. Guest lecturer at ACSLC Course
  8. Participated in the NATO Evolution of Sino-Russia Partnership working group
  9. Guest lecturer at the Vosler NCO Academy
  10. Guest lecturer at the 721 AMOG Commander’s Conference
  11. Guest speaker at AFMC Senior Leader Conference
  12. Met with members of USEMB DAO UK
  13. Guest lecturer at Senior Joint Information Operations Applications Course
  14. Guest lecturer at ACC/IG
  15. Held briefing with USSF S-6 staff
  16. Guest lecturer at USAF ROTC DET 330
  17. Participated in DAF Science and Technology wargame
  18. Presented multiple China briefs for 187th Fighter Wing
  19. Taught the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Moore on China’s use of strategic narrative with Peter Singer and August Cole for Useful Fiction project
  20. Supported HAF Futures of Airpower series
  21. Briefed Global Air Chiefs Climate Change Collaboration
  22. Briefed the China Way of War course
  23. Featured speaker at Combined Forces Air Component Commander’s course

Education

  1. Conducted PLA Fundamentals MET for the 31st Intelligence Squadron, Ft Meade, MD
  2. Conducted PLA Fundamentals MET for the 7th Airlift Squadron, JBLM, WA
  3. Conducted PLA Fundamentals MET for the 507th Air Defense Aggressor Squadron, Nellis AFB, NV
  4. Conducted an in-house PLA Fundamentals at National Defense University, Ft McNair, D.C.
  5. Provided China brief to SNCOA
  6. Provided China brief to ISR 200 professional development classes
  7. Briefed China to Maxwell AFB First Sergeant Symposium
  8. Briefed China as a Strategic Competitor to OTS Staff and Faculty
  9. Briefed multiple iterations of GPC brief to Squadron Officer School
  10. Briefed multiple iterations of China brief for Professional Financial Management Course
  11. Briefed China as a Strategic Competitor to ROTC NCOs
  12. Provided briefs to Air University Board of Visitors
  13. Briefed the Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture (LREC) Conference

 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:

  1. Interviewed by South China Morning Post about Chairman Xi’s visit to the PLAAF Airborne Corps
  2. Guest-lectured the assembled student body of the Australian Command and Staff College on PLA Operational Thought 
  3. Presented a paper on “China’s Growing Space and Counterspace Capabilities” at the Japan MOD National Institute for Defense Studies conference on National Security Space Policies in the Changing Environment.
  4. Participated in CNA’s innovation day by presenting on Taiwan Lessons Learned from Russia-Ukraine War.
  5. Participated in CSIS Interpret: China Open Source Research Conference
  6. Attended RAND conference on the PLA
  7. Presented at the China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC) conference
  8. Provided CASI brief to Senator Britt staff delegation visit
  9. Featured panelist for Air Power Podcast- Year End Wrap up
  10. Attended NDU College of Information and Cyberspace flagship conference Cyber Beacon
  11. Participated in the annual CAPS-RAND-NDU-USIP Conference on the PLA
  12. Participated in the International Astronomical Congress annual event
  13. Held meetings with Japanese Embassy, D.C.
  14. Met with senior cyber leaders in the military, federal and private sector at the 8th annual Military Cyber Professionals Advisor’s event
  15. Attended the annual Battle of Britain ceremony with the Chief of the Air Staff
  16. Joined the AUKUS Cognitive Warfare Working Group
  17. Met with Taiwanese-American Conference-East Coast and Taiwanese American Next Generation leadership,
  18. Keynote speaker and panel chair at Military Satellite Communications Conference
  19. Met with Visiting Faculty Chair from the Department of Energy to the Department of Defense National Defense University College of Information and Cyberspace to discuss Quantum Policy and China’s strategic mindset.
  20. Hosted academics from Taiwan’s Tamkang University
  21. Met with former Deputy Assistant National Cyber Director for Cyber Technology and Research
  22. Met with Executive Director of Cyber Solarium to discuss China’s Cyberspace Force
  23. Met with CEO of JANOS LLC and former Deputy Director of NSA 
  24. Cited on Africa’s leading defense news portal “Defense Web”
  25. Participated in event with Amb. Bolton for ICAS
  26. Quoted in The Economist article Is the age of American air superiority coming to an end?

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