The value of role models and superheroes in STEM (Brendan Orino, Brookings)

According to the Department of Education, the United States is ranked 29th in math and 22nd in science performance among industrialized nations, and only 16 percent of American high school seniors are proficient in math and interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. Despite spending more per capita on education per student than any other country and a world-renowned university system, few students in America are inspired from a young age to pursue these critical fields, a trend that some are hoping to reverse

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/05/13-role-models-superheroes-stem-orino

Fresh ideas for the defense establishment, from emerging leaders (Brendan Orino, Brookings)

With the United States now facing a particularly complicated confluence of threats in the world, emerging service leaders have their work cut out for them. These challenges—both in the international arena and for rising talent in Washington—were the subject of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence’s seventh annual military and federal fellows research symposium.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/03/07-federal-fellow-symposium-orino

Six technologies that the U.S. military is betting on (Brendan Orino, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/01/28-new-defense-technology-orino

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) The future of national security technologies in shaping the battlefield of tomorrow (Brendan Orino, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2015/08/04-national-security-technologies-future-orino