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Aligning Technology Solutions to Address Over-the-Horizon Threats

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Center for Global Security catalyzes the development of leading-edge national solutions to emerging and “over-the-horizon” issues, integrating science & technology, policy, and implementation expertise from across the global security community.  More ...

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PONI 2012 Conference
 

The Center and PNNL hosted the spring 2012 conference of the Project on Nuclear Issues, an activity of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Rising experts in the nuclear security field presented research findings on nuclear weapons issues and shared information in interactive forums attended by representatives from seven countries. Warren Stern, Director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, provided keynote remarks. CSIS was ranked the world’s top security and international affairs “think tank” in a well-respected annual assessment from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012.

CGS visit from interagency group
 
The Center welcomed Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance (center in photograph at left), to Seattle on January 17, 2012. She discussed arms control and verification challenges, as part of the Arms Control Seminar series hosted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.  Later that day at the University of Washington, she spoke about innovative concepts in arms control policy and the changing nature of diplomacy in the information age.  
NGFP Fellows on tour
 

The Center hosted the State Department, DOE, and DoD in June 2011. Topic: Cooperative threat reduction.  More ...

 

 

Anne Harrington at PNNL
 

The Center hosted NNSA's Anne Harrington for a PNNL
roundtable on global security issues (April 2011). 
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Global Security in the News

In January 2012, the President announced plans to reshape future Department of Defense priorities, programs, and budget requests over the next ten years. Details on PNNL's program to support Defense Department requirements can be found here.

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December 2011 marked the 20th anniversary of the Nunn-Lugar Arms Control Act, launching U.S. cooperative threat reduction programs. In January 2012, the U.S. assumed the chair of the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction. Some of PNNL's capabilities in nuclear nonproliferation, cooperative threat reduction, and science collaboration in support of global security are summarized here.