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April 16, 2026
Arms Trade and Defense Sales/Characterizing the Changing Global Market for Arms

How can the U.S. maintain its competitive edge in the evolving global arms trade by better understanding the market's complex dynamics, including the drivers of exporter and importer behavior and the perceptions of major export systems?
April 16, 2026
PLA Morale

What is the overall state of morale within the PLA? (CASI)
April 16, 2026
Chinese Aerospace Force Modernization - Conventional Precision Strike

How have changes within the PLA aerospace forces' Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, and Facilities (DOTMLPFP) framework contributed to their effectiveness?
April 16, 2026
Options for AFGSC in Response to the Next Potential "Cuban Missile Crisis" in Space

How should AFGSC prepare for, deter, and respond to the potential deployment of an adversary's space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon, considering actions such as fielding new capabilities, declassifying programs, and adjusting force posture to assure allies?
April 16, 2026
Capitalizing on Non-Commissioned Officers' Advanced Degrees

How can the SOF enterprise and its service components develop a process to effectively align the specialized skills, including graduate degrees, of noncommissioned officers with appropriate position roles to maximize their contributions?
April 16, 2026
USSOCOM Use of Gaming for Information Advantage

How can serious gaming be effectively designed, implemented, and integrated into existing SOF training programs to enhance personnel's information advantage skills, and what key metrics should be used to evaluate its effectiveness within USSOCOM?
April 16, 2026
Priority of Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat

What priority should a Hard and Deeply Buried Target (HDBT) defeat capability take within U.S. nuclear strategy, considering its influence on the decision calculus of various potential adversaries and its overall role in deterrence and employment?
April 16, 2026
Human/Technology Interface

How can SOF effectively manage the evolving human-technology interface, addressing critical issues of trust, control, and potential human-machine symbiosis to enhance operator capabilities while considering the profound ethical and operational implications?
April 16, 2026
Technological Undermatch

How can SOF adapt its operational strategies and leverage non-technological competitive advantages to succeed in an environment where an adversary may have technological parity or superiority, thus challenging the traditional "American way of war"?
April 16, 2026
PRC's "Military Civil Fusion" Strategy

How does the People's Republic of China's "Military-Civil Fusion" strategy specifically support the PLA's operations and advancements in the aerospace domains?