Improv

For decades, U.S. national security was ensured, in part, by the simple advantage of a near-monopoly on access to the most advanced technologies. Increasingly, however, the barriers to entry that prevented widespread use of sophisticated technology have diminished as technical education has become available globally and consumer and hobbyist versions of sophisticated components have proliferated. The goal of the Improv program is to assess and counter the threats emerging as a result of these diminished barriers to entry by (1) developing representative examples of military capabilities made possible by the existence of easily obtainable knowledge and technology and (2) developing countermeasures as well as U.S. capabilities based upon those examples.