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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

U.S. and France agree to expand cooperation on space issues

Friday, November 12, 2021

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Source: https://spacenews.com/u-s-and-france-agree-to-expand-cooperation-on-space-issues/

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris Nov. 10, 2021. Credit: @VP

WASHINGTON — Following a meeting Nov. 10 with French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced both nations agreed to expand cooperation on space and cybersecurity issues.

The U.S. and France will engage in a “comprehensive dialogue on space,” the White House said in a news release.

Representatives from U.S. civil and national security space agencies and their French counterparts will establish “regular bilateral dialogue to ensure a whole-of-government approach to space cooperation.”

The White House said space cooperation will focus on several areas of concern to both nations:

Addressing the climate crisis
Expanding the frontiers of space
Enhancing the quality of and access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education
Consulting on norms, guidelines, principles and rules to ensure sustainability and security of space activities
Enabling a sustainable space economy
To help tackle climate change, the U.S. and France agreed to step up the exchange of Earth observation satellite data and conduct joint analysis of climate change risks.

Harris, who chairs the U.S. National Space Council, also announced that the United States is committed to joining the Space Climate Observatory (SCO) and “looks forward to working with France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) to finalize the SCO Charter.”

The SCO was officially launched by Macron in 2019 as a consortium intended to sponsor projects that help make data from space more accessible to organizations to inform decisions and measures to mitigate and respond to the climate crisis.

To date, 33 space agencies and international organizations have joined the consortium.

France has the third oldest national space program in the world, after the U.S. and Russia, and the largest space program in Europe. France in July 2019 released its first French Space Defense Strategy, which elevated the role of French military space programs.

Harris after the meeting with Macron also announced the U.S. will support the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, a voluntary commitment to work with the international community to advance cybersecurity and preserve an open, interoperable and reliable internet.

Harris visited France at the invitation of Macron. Relations between the U.S. and France deteriorated after it was revealed in September that the U.S. and the U.K. agreed to sell nuclear submarines to Australia, which derailed a previous deal Australia had signed to buy diesel submarines from France.

The White House on Thursday said Harris “welcomes President Macron’s expression of France’s intent to join the Artemis Accords, a coalition of like-minded countries committed to ensuring that space exploration is conducted responsibly and sustainably.”

Launched in October 2020, the Artemis Accords are voluntary, non-binding principles to promote cooperative, peaceful civil exploration of outer space.

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