News & Insights

  • Defense and Aerospace

“Although the policy sharpened the focus on human rights in these many ways, it missed a unique opportunity to show its commitment to the defense industrial base at a time where more is being asked of it that any point since World War II,” writes former State official Josh Kirshner….

  • Indo-Pacific

“While this [executive order] is the first official step, we shouldn’t expect it to be the last,” said Sayers, now managing director at D.C. consulting firm Beacon Global Strategies. He noted that past investment screening policies, like the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, took decades to be fully established. “This will likely be an additive process that grows over time through both executive powers and legislative action,” he said.

  • Indo-Pacific

Intelligence committee leadership — Democrat Mark R. Warner and GOP’s Marco Rubio — want more sanctions, export controls related to Xinjiang By: Ellen Nakashima February 17, 2023 Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), left, and Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) attend a news conference at the Capitol in Washington on May 22, 2012….

  • Defense and Aerospace

The Abrams demonstrates the pitfalls of Washington’s overcomplicated defence procurement system By: Steff Chávez February 5, 2023 As originally appeared in Financial Times. A US soldier stands atop an Abrams M1/A1 tank below a picture of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein on the outskirts of Kuwait City in March 1991 ©…

  • BGS Announcement

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Beacon Global Strategies (BGS), a leading strategic advisory firm focusing on global public policy, government procurement, and geopolitical risk analysis, today announced it will be expanding its growing team by adding Mr. Klon Kitchen as Managing Director and Mr. Jon Darby as Senior Advisor. In these roles, Mr. Kitchen will lead…