{"id":60541,"date":"2025-06-20T23:54:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/?p=60541"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:33:27","slug":"event%e3%80%80report-japan-u-s-defense-industrial-cooperation-acquisition-and-sustainment-dicas-featuring-dr-scott-w-harold-from-the-rand-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/2025\/06\/20\/60541\/","title":{"rendered":"[Event Report] &#8220;Japan-U.S. Defense Industrial Cooperation, Acquisition, and Sustainment (DICAS)&#8221; \u2014 Featuring Dr. Scott W. Harold from the RAND Corporation \u2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 20, 2025, the Asia Pacific Initiative (API) hosted a roundtable welcoming Dr. Scott W. Harold, a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, a U.S. think tank.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Dr. Harold presented his work on the &#8220;Japan-U.S. Defense Industrial Cooperation, Acquisition, and Sustainment (DICAS)&#8221; initiative, which served as the basis for a lively exchange of views with API experts.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion covered DICAS&#8217;s origins, its main undertakings, challenges in promoting Japan-U.S. defense industrial cooperation, and DICAS&#8217;s future outlook. The potential impact of President Trump on DICAS was also examined. Furthermore, there was a discussion on whether DICAS, which is effective in peacetime, could fulfill a similar role during contingencies.<\/p>\n<p>This roundtable proved to be a highly valuable opportunity to consider how industrial and technological cooperation between Japan and the U.S. should be strengthened amidst a rapidly changing international security environment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col_6 mB15\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/GaIeyudaTuFo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/039A5083-scaled.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col_6 mB15\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/GaIeyudaTuFo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/039A5093-scaled.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col_6 mB15\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/GaIeyudaTuFo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/039A5096-scaled.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col_6 mB15\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/GaIeyudaTuFo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/039A5101-scaled.jpeg\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 20, 2025, the Asia Pacific Initiative (API) hosted a roundtable welcoming Dr. Scott W. Harold, a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, a U.S. think tank. During the meeting, Dr. Harold presented his work on the &#8220;Japan-U.S. Defense Industrial Cooperation, Acquisition, and Sustainment (DICAS)&#8221; initiative, which served as the basis for a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/2025\/06\/20\/60541\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Event Report] &#8220;Japan-U.S. Defense Industrial Cooperation, Acquisition, and Sustainment (DICAS)&#8221; \u2014 Featuring Dr. Scott W. Harold from the RAND Corporation \u2014<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":60467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60783,"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60541\/revisions\/60783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apinitiative.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}