Last year, a self-driving car developed by China's National University of Defense Technology traveled 177 miles from Changsha to Wuhan.

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The company is working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a scientific version of the computer called PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System).

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Specifically, in remarks at a breakfast meeting co-sponsored by the National Defense University Foundation and the National Defense Industrial Association, Kadish observed that the inherent mobility of naval systems, in concert with ground-based Army systems, makes a lot of sense from a theater or national missile defense perspective.

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John Pustay, assistant to the chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff and president, National Defense University.

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In December, he reiterated in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would result in U.S. action.

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Finally, in a recent post on his blog, Sam Liles, an associate professor at the National Defense University, takes cyber strategists to task for focusing too much on the technological infrastructure of cyberspace and not enough on the social and cognitive aspects.

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