About this episode
David Rushing Dewhurst discusses the intersection of economics, data science, and national security in the context of strategic understanding.
What if we could turn economic complexity into strategic understanding? In this episode, we sit down with David Rushing Dewhurst, Ph.D. , a program manager in DARPA\'s Information Processing Techniques Office, IPTO. Dewhurst works at the complex intersection of economics, data science, and national security to develop tools that help America navigate a world where economic competition has become a primary battlefield. Dewhurst shares his unconventional path to the agency and takes us through two of his programs: Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering, A3ML : An innovative program that aims to eliminate global money laundering by treating it as an economic supply-and-demand problem, while preserving privacy through a decentralized approach. National Security Economic Theory, NASCENT : A program focused on establishing a principled theoretical foundation for geoeconomics and building generic playbooks for economic statecraft. Tune in to discover how Dewhurst is redefining the tools of economic statecraft to prevent pan-domain strategic surprise.
People in this episode
Guest: David Rushing Dewhurst
Topics covered
- economic complexity
- data science
- national security
- money laundering
- geoeconomics
- economic statecraft
Keywords
- economic complexity
- data science
- national security
- money laundering
- geoeconomics
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: DARPA, Information Processing Techniques Office, Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering, National Security Economic Theory
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