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NatSec EmTech explores how emerging technologies—from cyberspace and artificial intelligence to outer space—are reshaping national security, law, and global power. Through expert conversations, the podcast examines not just what’s coming, but who governs, controls, and is impacted by the technologies defining our future.

Georgetown Law’s Center for National Security presents NatSec-EmTech – a podcast hosted by Professor Laura Donohue, exploring the future of national security through the lens of cutting-edge technology. 

This podcast breaks down not only what’s coming but who controls it. Every episode is a journey into the places where we have never been – from space law frontiers to artificial intelligence dilemmas, from cryptocurrency breakdowns to bioengineering breakthroughs, from the stories of ambition and power to the people quietly shaping the future. This is not a science fiction but our national security.

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NatSec-EmTech Trailer

The future of national security is no longer on land, it’s in code, labs, and orbit.

Georgetown Law’s Center for National Security is proud to launch NatSec–EmTech, a podcast hosted by Professor Laura Donohue, exploring the world of AI, VR, space, cryptocurrency, biomanipulation and more.

Watch the trailer here

Launching on April 15!

Space, Sovereignty, and the Private Frontier: A Conversation with Tom Mc Sorley, General Counsel, NATO DIANA | Formerly SpaceX

In this conversation, Tom McSorley, currently General Counsel at the NATO Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), and formerly with SpaceX unpacks the tension between innovation and regulation, sovereignty and partnership, ambition and restraint.

We examine the biggest regulatory inhibitors facing the United States, explore what the space ecosystem could look like 15 years from now, and wonder whether point-to-point travel through space across Earth’s surface is closer than we think?

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