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May 22, 2024 | 
youarecurrent.com | Jeff Decker
During a segment of the indie documentary film “Make Me Famous,” consecutive interview subjects question the need for a movie about 1980s East Village artist Edward Brezinski, who was well-known inside the New York City art scene but not outside it. New York-based husband-and-wife filmmakers Brian Vincent (director) and Heather Spore (producer), whose documentary was more than a decade in the making, welcome that sort of scrutiny.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
warontherocks.com | Jeff Decker |Noah Sheinbaum |Marshal Kosloff
Marshall Kosloff, the Clements Center National Security media and journalism fellow, moderated a discussion with Jeff Decker, the managing director of Tech Transfer for Defense at Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability, and Noah Sheinbaum, the founder of Frontdoor Defense, about their recent article, “Shining a Light on the Defense Department’s Industrial Base Problems.” Image: U.S. Army photo by 2nd Lt. Gabriel Jenko, 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st...
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
breakingdefense.com | Jeff Decker |Noah Sheinbaum |Aaron Mehta
Pentagon leaders talk all the time about needing to grow ties with the commercial sector — but do defense leaders actually know what those commercial firms want? A recent poll of 800 companies could give more insight. Below, Jeff Decker and Noah Sheinbaum, who helped direct the poll, reveal their insights. Thanks to efforts across successive administrations, it is now taken as fact that the Defense Department needs to bring in the commercial tech sector to help fill critical gaps.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
givecampus.com | Alex Frank |Jeff Decker |Skylar Beaver |Sally Scatton
Your giving during this challenge provides valuable resources to every student-athlete member of our intercollegiate athletic teams. Your gift today helps ensure that our student-athletes have a robust team experience. In addition, giving opportunities are available to support our strength and conditioning and sports medicine programs. When you give to Hobart Athletics, you become a member of the Statesmen Athletic Association.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
warontherocks.com | Tara Dougherty |Clint Hinote |Jeff Decker
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
aei.org | Tara Dougherty |Clint Hinote |Jeff Decker
The Pentagon’s new National Defense Industrial Strategy succeeds in describing the problems facing the nation’s production capacity and supply chains and in acknowledging culpability in creating it, but falls short in offering what we really need for rapid, measurable, and sustainable improvement. For example, the Department of Defense admits that its own policy in the early 1990s that encouraged consolidation among defense contractors contributed to today’s lamentable competitive environment.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
tnsr.org | Jeff Decker |Noah Sheinbaum
From bands to chiefdoms to states, political structures historically evolved to provide more resources (e.g., land, labor, and capital goods), which led to more effective militaries and, subsequently, better security and prospects for survival.1 These efficiencies of scale, both in terms of manpower and resources, established an irreducible relationship between a state’s industrial base, military power, and security.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
breakingdefense.com | Jeff Decker |Noah Sheinbaum
The announcement of Défense Department’s Replicator initiative has come with a host of question, not the least of which is where the idea of mass numbers of unmanned systems might come from. Breaking Defense recently ran an op-ed calling for a greater government role in production for Replicator. In the following response, Jeff Decker and Noah Sheinbaum argue the government should take a step back instead.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
youarecurrent.com | Jeff Decker
A Westfield High School senior had never been involved in organized football. But when the opportunity to play for the school’s new Unified Sports flag football team presented itself, Dane Hogle jumped at the chance. He saw the team, which combines athletes with and without intellectual disabilities, as an opportunity to connect with a varied group of students. But, more importantly, he liked the message that Unified Sports sends.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
youarecurrent.com | Jeff Decker
A project to improve traffic flow for motorists and safety for pedestrians in downtown Westfield is progressing. The demolition phase of 32Connects, a joint effort between the Indiana Department of Transportation and the City of Westfield to improve State Road 32 (Main Street), is expected to wrap up in the next few weeks, according to Jennifer Beck, senior project manager for INDOT’s Greenfield District.
