Mr Hannigan has spent much of his career in national security, having recently been director of GCHQ, the UK's largest intelligence and security agency. He was also a member of the National Security Council.

Mr Hannigan has spent much of his career in national security, having recently been director of GCHQ, the UK's largest intelligence and security agency. He was also a member of the National Security Council.
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Get ready for a new development: Chinese weapons systems in Europe.
Tags: Aerospace, China, Global Security Issues, Technology, EuropeTrevor Taylor
The UK’s newly announced defence centre on artificial intelligence is still a vision, in search of a role.
Tags: Cyber, Defence, Industries and Society, UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Technology, UK DefenceLydia Wachs
Only days before an expected decision by the German parliament on arming Germany’s drones, the drone debate is polarising national politics.
Tags: Aerospace, Germany, TechnologySuzanne Raine
The UK government is consulting more widely. But it still needs to grapple with the broader task of transforming information into understanding.
Tags: UK Integrated Review 2021, UK, Information, Intelligence, TechnologyAlex Guittard, Jared Shurin and Lilla Schumicky-Logan
A simple set of suggestions to counter terrorist and violent extremist groups’ recruitment efforts during the pandemic.
Tags: Tackling Extremism, Global Security Issues, TechnologyNick J Maxwell
Coronavirus ‘track and trace’ efforts represent a major escalation in how governments analyse personal data. The financial crime-fighting world should pay attention.
Tags: Coronavirus, AML/CTF, Information, TechnologyJames Johnson
Artificial intelligence on the battlefield challenges key assumptions which underpin military planning.
Tags: RUSI Journal, United States, Defence Policy, Maritime Forces, TechnologyElisabeth Braw and Gary Brown
Targeting individuals rather than states might be a better way of deterring cyber attacks.
Tags: Cyber, Military Sciences, RUSI Journal, TechnologyJoe Fossey
Space is the ideal proving ground for the UK's Fusion Doctrine.
Tags: RUSI Journal, UK, Defence Policy, Technology, UK Defence, EuropeOn 7 November 2016, RUSI hosted a Roundtable event to discuss the UK National Cyber Security Strategy which had been launched the previous week.
Tags: Cyber, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, Military SciencesThis conference will examine challenges in the information environment, the role of communications in hybrid warfare, and capability development and management.
Tags: Cyber, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, Military Sciences, Information, TechnologyThis conference will explore the nature of the Information Age and its implications for conflict and the conduct of warfare,
Tags: Cyber, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, Military Sciences
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Financing Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism