Veronica Marcone is a Research Assistant at the Yorktown Institute. She recently earned an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS. Her research focuses on U.S. military strategy and defense policy, primarily foreign military sales, procurement, emerging defense technology, and military aviation. She previously interned at the American Enterprise Institute, the Middle East Institute, the Center for International Policy, and Observer Research Foundation America. Her published work includes analyses on drone warfare and F-35 Foreign Military Sales, the latter featured in the Georgetown Security Studies Review.