Arlington, VA | November 18, 2021 — The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies is pleased to announce a new entry in its Policy Paper series, Reimagining the MQ-9 Reaper by Maj Gen Lawrence A. Stutzriem, USAF (Ret.), Director of Research at the Mitchell Institute. The United States now faces an extremely broad set of threats, including peer competitors like China and Russia, nuclear ambitious adversaries North Korea and Iran, and non-state actors like ISIS and
Watch the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies’ release of its new policy paper. Reimagining the MQ-9 Reaper, by Maj Gen Larry Stutzriem, USAF (Ret.), Director of Research. Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at Hudson Institute; Todd Harrison, Director, Defense Budget Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); and Caitlin Lee, Associate Director, Acquisition and Technology Policy Center, RAND Corporation join Gen Stutzriem for a
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