DARPA/AEO Overview. Tom Masiello Director, Adaptive Execution Office (AEO) Briefing Prepared for 2017 NDIA Air Armament Symposium.

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1 DARPA/AEO Overview Tom Masiello Director, Adaptive Execution Office (AEO) Briefing Prepared for 2017 NDIA Air Armament Symposium 1 November 2017 Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 1

2 DARPA s Origin & Mission DARPA s Mission: Prevent technology surprise from negatively affecting U.S. national security and create technology surprise for U.S. adversaries by maintaining the technological superiority of the U.S. military. Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 2

3 How DARPA Works Unique Structure to Pursue Capability One office building in Arlington, VA with no laboratory infrastructure Only 201 government employees with contracted support personnel 98 Program Managers (PMs) on 4-year term appointments ~250 active programs 2000 contracts and other agreements ~$3B annual budget m/watch?v=zg-fh1gn2ls m/watch?v=fix3_qcmau M /watch?v=nharwz887ns Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 3

4 Timeline of Projects Phased Arrays: Electronically Steered Array Radar Transit Satellite (precursor to GPS) TIROS: World's First Weather Satellite on-line System (NLS) & "The Mother of All Demos" (12/9/1968) Gallium Arsenide IC research (AOSP) Quantum Key Distribution Network Gallium Nitride IC research (WGBS) Corona Reconnaissance Satellite Centaur Engine (for Saturn V Moon rocket) Project AGILE & the M16 Rifle Computer Mouse ARPANET (precursor to the Internet) HAVE BLUE and the Origin of Stealth Technology Tank Breaker / Javelin Anti-Tank Weapon System Amber UAV Head-Mounted Displays High-Altitude LIDAR Operations Experiement (HALOE) Grand Challenge (Driverless Vehicles) EXACTO Guided Bullet Robotics Challenge (DRC) Cyber Grand Challenge (DEFCON Capture the Flag) Today 2017 Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 4

5 DARPA Technical Offices BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY OFFICE DEFENSE SCIENCE OFFICE INFORMATION INNOVATION OFFICE MICROSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY OFFICE STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY OFFICE TACTICAL TECHNOLOGY OFFICE Restore and Maintain Warfighter Abilities Harness Biological Systems Apply Biological Complexity at Scale Physical Sciences Mathematics Transformative Materials Supervised Autonomy Novel Sensing and Detecting Complexity Cyber Data Analytics at Massive Scale ISR Exploitation Electromagnetic Spectrum Decentralization Information Microsystems Globalization Battle Management, Command and Control Comms and Networks ISR Electronic Warfare Positioning, Navigation and Timing Ground, Maritime & Undersea, Air, and Space Systems Agile Development Cooperative Autonomy Unmanned Systems Power and Propulsion Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 5

6 Adaptive Execution Office (AEO) DIRO AEO Adaptive Execution Office Accelerating Game-Changing DARPA Technologies into DoD Capabilities Program Support Service Engagement COCOM Engagement Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 6

7 AEO Summary of Staff and Responsibilities Who we are: Small government staff of eight. Five retired senior military officers, one government civilian, two active duty, & SETAs (scientists, engineers, & former military from all service branches) AEO Support to the Technical Offices: Provide operational expertise for DARPA Liaison/matchmaker Track and document transition activity Sponsor for exercises, demonstrations, or extended field trials 1,000 June 2015 Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 7

8 DARPA Thrust areas Protect against weapons of mass terror Air and maritime combat capabilities to deter or defeat a sophisticated enemy Empower squads and small units to control contested territory Robust, real-time operations in space Position, navigation, and timing for military operations in the absence of GPS Full dynamic control of the spectrum for comms, sensing, and electronic warfare Leading-edge electronics with built-in trust Win at cyber Solve intractable problems by harnessing data Accelerate synthetic biology and genetic engineering with safeguards Understand and use complexity Combating diminishing returns for monolithic systems Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 8

9 Cyber Resiliency High Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) Hack-proofing military vehicles Adopt a clean-slate, formal methods-based approach to enable semi-automated code synthesis from executable, formal specifications creating high-assurance cyber-physical systems Generate open-source, high-assurance, and operating system and control system components Use these components to construct high-assurance military vehicles Cyber Fault-tolerant Attack Recovery (CFAR) Making legacy computer systems more secure through operation complexity Fault-tolerant architectures run multiple subsystems in parallel and constantly cross-check results to rapidly detect, isolate and mitigate faults, which manifest as differences across the subsystems Transforming software to create variants of binary executables Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 9

10 Cyber Resiliency Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) Automated cyber defense tournament A competition to create automatic defensive systems capable of reasoning about flaws, formulating patches and deploying them on a network in real time Expert-level software security analysis and remediation, at machine speeds on enterprise scales Establishment of a lasting R&D community for automated cyber defense Supply-chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense (SHIELD) Eliminate counterfeit integrated circuits Combine NSA-level encryption, sensors, near-field power and communications into a microscopic-scale chip capable of being inserted into the packaging of an integrated circuit The 100 micrometer x 100 micrometer "dielet" will act as a hardware root of trust, detecting any attempt to access or reverse engineer the dielet Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 10

11 Electronic Warfare Adaptive Radar Countermeasures (ARC) Automatically learn to counter new radar threats Enable U.S. airborne EW systems to automatically generate effective countermeasures against new, unknown and adaptive radars in real-time in the field Isolate unknown radar signals in the presence of other hostile, friendly and neutral signals. Deduce the threat posed by that radar. Synthesize and transmit countermeasure signals to achieve a desired effect on the threat radar. Assess the effectiveness of countermeasures based on over-the-air observable threat behaviors. Behavioral Learning for Adaptive Electronic Warfare (BLADE) Electronic attack system that learns to jam new communications threats in real-time Adaptive, in-the-field systems approach Novel-machine learning algorithms and techniques that can rapidly detect and characterize new radio threats Dynamically synthesize new countermeasures Provide accurate battle damage assessment based on over-the-air observable changes in the threat Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 11

12 Electronic Warfare Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT) Low-cost reconfigurable phased-arrays Develop a digitally-interconnected building block from which larger systems can be formed Shorten design cycles and in-field updates A digitally-influenced common module comprising 80 to 90 percent of an array s core functionality for insertion into a wide range of applications Reconfigurable and tunable RF apertures for spanning S-band to X-band frequencies (and points between) for a wide variety of characteristics Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 12

13 Air Armaments Seeker Cost Transformation (SECTR) Low-cost precision guided weapon for GPS-denied environments Develop novel weapon terminal sensing and guidance technologies and systems for air-launched, airdelivered weapons Enable weapons to acquire fixed and moving targets with only minimal external support Achieve high navigation accuracy in a GPS-denied environment Low size, weight, and cost Gremlins Air-launched, air-retrievable volley of UASs Launch groups of UASs from existing large aircraft such as bombers or transport aircraft as well as from fighters and other small, fixed-wing platforms while those planes are out of range of adversary defenses Air-retrievable Low cost, 20 uses Modular payloads Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 13

14 Swarms OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) Swarm tactics for complex urban environments Envisions future small-unit infantry forces using small unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and/or small unmanned ground systems (UGSs) in swarms of 250 robots or more to accomplish diverse missions in complex urban environments Swarm autonomy and human-swarm teaming Open, extensible architecture for physical and virtual environments Community interaction, immersive interfaces Aerial Dragnet City-scale swarm surveillance Provide persistent, wide-area surveillance of all UAS operating below 1,000 feet in a large city Network of surveillance nodes, each providing coverage of a neighborhood-sized urban area Maintain UAS tracks even when the craft disappear from sight around corners or behind objects Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 14

15 Autonomy Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) High-speed autonomous navigation in cluttered environments Fly at speeds up to 20 m/s with no communication to the operator and without GPS waypoints Higher-clutter, fly-through missions autonomy includes sensing, perception, planning, and control Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) Cooperative autonomy algorithms Navigate, find, track, ID, & engage targets under established rules of engagement Recruit other CODE-equipped UASs from nearby friendly forces to augment their own capabilities Adapt to dynamic situations such as attrition of friendly forces or the emergence of unanticipated threats Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 15

16 Autonomy Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) Drop-in system to automate aircraft operation Removable kit that would promote the addition of high levels of automation into existing aircraft, enabling operation with reduced onboard crew Support execution of an entire mission from takeoff to landing even in the face of contingency events A platform for integrating additional automation or autonomy capabilities Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 16

17 Hypersonics Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) Effective and affordable hypersonic cruise missile Advanced air vehicle configurations capable of efficient hypersonic flight Hydrocarbon scramjet-powered propulsion to enable sustained hypersonic cruise Approaches to managing the thermal stresses of high-temperature cruise Affordable system designs and manufacturing approaches Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) Air-launched, tactical-range hypersonic boost glide systems Vehicle Feasibility Vehicle concepts possessing the required aerodynamic and aerothermal performance, controllability and robustness for a wide operational envelope Effectiveness System attributes & subsystems required to be effective in relevant operational environments Affordability Approaches to reducing cost and increasing value for both the demonstration system and future operational systems Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 17

18 Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) Phase 2 Concept Video Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 18

19 AEO Contacts Thomas Masiello Maj. Gen. USAF Ret. Office Director Scott Reed Col. USAF Ret. Deputy Office Director EUCOM/AFRICOM David Busigo Director Business & Finance John Murphy Lee Rudacille Tom Browning CDR James Reeve CWO4 Neil Hermansen CAPT USN Ret. Navy PACOM, SOUTHCOM COL USA Ret. Army CENTCOM, SOCOM Col. USAF Ret. Air Force NORTHCOM Naval Flight Officer SCFP/TDWG STRATCOM Navy SEAL Navy SOF SOCOM, CENTCOM Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited 19