The Workplace of the Secretary of Protection plans to collect a choose group of innovators this spring to pitch technical options for shifting, processing and reworking knowledge into actionable data.
The particular discover in regards to the assembly, posted Jan. 19 on Sam.gov, comes because the Pentagon is pursuing a warfighting assemble often known as Mixed Joint All-Area Command and Management (CJADC2), which is geared toward connecting the U.S. army’s numerous sensors, knowledge streams and weapon programs — and people of its worldwide allies and companions — beneath a extra unified community for sooner and higher decision-making.
The so-called Innovation Outreach Options Assembly, slated for April 15-16 in McLean, Virginia, will probably be hosted by OSD’s innovation and modernization workplace — which falls beneath the analysis and engineering directorate — in partnership with the Joint Employees’s intelligence directorate (J2) and the Military’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance job power. Tech builders tapped to attend will conduct technical shows and have a confab with Protection Division officers about their potential options for “unleashing knowledge.”
“Info is central to all army capabilities. Speedy and dependable entry to knowledge is essential to sustaining a permanent U.S. benefit in occasions of peace and disaster. Because the community of information sources and decision-makers grows, as does the urgency to reply to rising conditions, so does the demand for the Division of Protection (DoD) to find progressive options that allow the safe assortment, storing, processing, monitoring, analyzing, and speaking of information at pace and scale,” the discover states.
The Pentagon is in search of instruments that may guarantee knowledge is seen, accessible, comprehensible, linked, reliable, interoperable and safe, in keeping with the wants assertion.
Applied sciences of curiosity embrace options for transmitting and receiving knowledge and alerts over distances better than present capabilities enable; connecting programs with knowledge sources positioned “wherever from the stratosphere to the seafloor”; multi-path networks for working in environments with connectivity interference or degradation; boosting bandwidth at decreased energy; edge computing; and “novel approaches” for transferring knowledge, reminiscent of quantum or laser tech.
Nonetheless, higher strategies for shifting knowledge aren’t sufficient. The division additionally wants instruments for processing the huge quantity of data it collects. That features capabilities to “triage” inflows and prioritize essentially the most important and time-sensitive information; automate the tagging, cataloging and storing of information so it may be shortly discovered and accessed when wanted; combine “hundreds of inputs” from disparate sources; and detect “anomalies” in cyber networks in real-time with machine studying applied sciences.
To assist decision-makers perceive and belief the information they’re being fed, the Pentagon desires data visualization instruments, algorithms that may determine and supply automated alerts about gadgets of curiosity, and enablers for “confidently ingesting knowledge and data into present AI/ML capabilities and coaching next-generation algorithms,” per the wants assertion.
Functions to take part within the assembly are due Feb. 22.