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Dakota Foster

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Dakota Foster was a Visiting Researcher at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). She is a graduate student in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where she is studying the Third Offset Strategy and the national security implications of changing innovation patterns between the public and private sectors.  Previously, she has conducted research on terrorism and U.S. national security policy for the U.S. military, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Washington Institute.  She holds a B.A. from Amherst College and is an incoming student at the University of Oxford.

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