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Travis Sharp

Director of Defense Budget Studies, CSBA

Travis Sharp is a senior fellow and the director of defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA).
Ideas

We tried ‘fighting China’ with lower budgets. It didn’t go well.

Tabletop exercises hosted by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments offer one big lesson for the fiscal 2026 spending plan.

  • Travis Sharp, Casey Nicastro and Evan Braden Montgomery
Ideas

What’s missing from the Quad’s ISR partnership

The year-old Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness can’t do the job with satellites alone.

  • Travis Sharp, Thomas G. Mahnken and Tim Sadov
Ideas

In a Connected Era, We Talk Too Much About Individual Weapons

Instead, budgeteers and lawmakers should weigh “networked force packages” of arms and gear.

  • Travis Sharp, Chris Bassler and Tyler Hacker