Technology, Security and Intelligence
RUSI’s research spans areas such as the intersection between technology and geopolitics, ethical and legal applications of AI, technology procurement, FinTech and cyber.
The need for key policy decisions across the nexus of technology and security will intensify over the coming decade. RUSI is exploring how technology can assist governments, intelligence agencies and policing in solving problems speedily, while factoring in the legal and ethical challenges relating to new capabilities. Societies must decide on how to use emerging technologies such as quantum computing and synthetic biology, and RUSI’s research provides strategic insight to disentangle the key geopolitical, economic and technical considerations. Working across areas such as technology procurement, surveillance, cyber security, climate change and FinTech, RUSI analyses the benefits of technology, while raising awareness of the inherent risks.
The Technology, Surveillance and Intelligence Policy (TSIP) research stream sits at the intersection between emerging technologies, national security and UK intelligence policy. Through numerous research projects and events conducted in recent years on the role of artificial intelligence in UK national security, data ethics frameworks in policing, and data-driven responses to COVID-19, RUSI has come to be a trusted partner and voice of authority on these issues for the intelligence, law-enforcement and policymaking communities.
Our experts
Professor Justin Bronk
Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology
Military Sciences
James Byrne
Director, OSIA
Open-Source Intelligence and Analysis (OSIA)
Joe Byrne
Research Fellow
Open-Source Intelligence and Analysis (OSIA)
Sneha Dawda
Dr Andrew Glazzard OBE
Senior Associate Fellow
Ardi Janjeva
Former Research Fellow
Dr Sidharth Kaushal
Research Fellow, Sea Power
Military Sciences
Tom Keatinge
Director, CFCS
Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies
Jamie MacColl
Research Fellow
Cyber
Dr Marion Oswald MBE
Associate Fellow
Tom Plant
Senior Associate Fellow
Conrad Prince CB
Distinguished Fellow and Senior Cyber Adviser
Nick Reynolds
Research Analyst, Land Warfare
Military Sciences
Professor Peter Roberts
Senior Associate Fellow
Alexandra Stickings
Associate Fellow
James Sullivan
Director, Cyber Research
Cyber
Dr Jack Watling
Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare
Military Sciences
Research programme
Technology and National Security Research Programme
A programme at the forefront of national and international debates on the role of technology in transforming the global security landscape.