2 nd Annual Autonomous Capabilities for DoD

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1 Defense Strategies Institute professional educational forum: 2 nd Annual Autonomous Capabilities for DoD ~ Exploiting Autonomy for Mission Success ~ September 19-20, 2018 Mary M. Gates Learning Center Alexandria, VA

2 Wednesday, September 19th, :00 8:45 Registration and Light Breakfast Reception Open 8:45 9:00 Event Chairman Anthony Sanchez (Confirmed) Technical Director, Government, Veritone Inc. 9:00 9:45 Driving Autonomous Capabilities and Systems Innovation to Maintain Military Overmatch - Perspectives towards autonomous capabilities and systems best use cases for application across DoD - Efforts to leverage commercial autonomy expertise to bolster DoD applications and future concepts - Challenges associated with rapid insertion as it relates to TEVV, trust, etc. Mr. Chris Shank (Confirmed) Director, Strategic Capabilities Office Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering 9:45 10:30 Army Acquisition Perspective towards Exploiting Autonomous Capabilities to Achieve and Maintain Total Combat Superiority - How ALT is approaching and supporting the acquisition of autonomous capabilities - Supporting S&T modernization to meet emerging and existing threats across the full spectrum of Army and Joint operations - Current considerations and challenges towards acquiring and inserting autonomous capabilities, and what industry and R&D partners need to know Robert Saunders (Confirmed) Director for Ground Systems Assistant Secretary of the Army, Acquisition, Logistics and Technology 10:30 11:00 Networking Break and Exhibits 11:00 11:45 Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team: Integrating Big Data and Machine Learning across the Military - Understanding the mission, priorities and goals of the AWCFT - How the AWCFT is approaching the acquisition and development of algorithms and determining computational resources for 90-day sprints - Update on OUSD(I) sponsored AI-based opportunities (Xpress Challenge) for generating analytic products Lt Gen John Shanahan, USAF (Confirmed) Director for Defense Intelligence- Warfighter Support Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence 11:45 12:30 Providing Systems Engineering Policy and Guidance for Autonomy - Understanding the ramifications of autonomous systems on DoD engineering practices - Refining requirements development for autonomous capabilities - Efforts to increase level of experimentation for autonomous capabilities Robert A. Gold, SES (Confirmed) Director, Engineering Enterprise Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering 12:30 1:30 Networking Lunch

3 1:30 2:15 Enabling Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) within Army Formations - Army perspective towards exploiting autonomous capabilities to achieve and maintain total combat superiority - How TARDEC is sustaining an integrated campaign of learning to shape future RAS across Army warfighting functions - Current challenges towards acquiring and inserting autonomous capabilities Dr. Robert Sadowski, SES (Confirmed) Army Chief Roboticist Chair, RDECOM Robotics Community of Practice Ground Vehicle Robots, TARDEC 2:15 3:00 Accelerating the Commercial Innovation of Autonomous, AI, and Robotics Capabilities for Enhanced National Defense - Current levels of interest for AI and autonomous capabilities for DIUx: where do they see the greatest value - Leveraging advanced commercial autonomous capabilities to supplement DoD mission sets Orin Hoffman (Confirmed) Autonomy and Robotics HQE Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) 3:00 3:30 Networking Break and Exhibits 3:30 4:15 *Event Keynote Remarks* Accelerating Air Force Innovation to Ensure USAF Force Readiness and Mission Success for Any Contingency - Equipping Airmen with innovative capabilities to prepare and support operations across multiple operating domains - Considerations on the efforts to leverage artificial intelligence and autonomous capabilities to support current and future USAF mission sets - Efforts to compress technology development periods for hastened insertion of new age capabilities General Stephen W. Seve Wilson, USAF (Confirmed) Vice Chief of Staff U.S. Air Force 4:15 5:00 Testing & Evaluation of Autonomous Systems - Determining test & evaluation requirements, processes, and methods to address specific challenges and gaps - Challenges associated with test adequacy and integration - Understanding the role of human involvement within the autonomy framework Dr. Darryl K. Ahner (Confirmed) Director, OSD Scientific Test and Analysis Techniques Center of Excellence (STAT COE) Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) End of Day One

4 Thursday, September 20 th, :15 8:45 Registration and Light Breakfast Reception Open 8:45 9:00 Event Chairman Anthony Sanchez (Confirmed) Technical Director, Government, Veritone Inc. 9:00 9:45 Preparing for AI and Autonomy s Impact on Future Warfare and National Security - Perspective towards AI and autonomy impact on the national security landscape - Understanding the challenges associated with AI and autonomy as it relates to conflict and war - Autonomous capabilities/weapons and operational risks Paul Scharre (Confirmed) Director, Technology and National Security Program Center for a New American Security 9:45 10:30 Identifying Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications of Artificial Intelligence For Use Across Government - Identifying implications of AI for both policy, and research - Defining the limits of AI: identifying where AI should and should not be applied - Challenges associated with leveraging AI for cybersecurity Timothy M. Persons, Ph.D. (Confirmed) Chief Scientist U.S. Government Accountability Office 10:30 11:00 Networking Break and Exhibits 11:00 12:15 Leveraging Commercial Autonomy Innovation to Advance DoD Operational Superiority Commercial enterprises are leveraging autonomous and artificial intelligence capabilities and systems to exploit advances in process power, big data analytics, and networked systems to vastly enhance overall performance, and expand future capability. These enterprises are increasingly accelerating autonomous capability progress and demonstrating substantial cost-savings through the adoption of autonomy, providing numerous opportunities for the DoD to leverage these investments to supplement their own mission sets that extend well beyond cost-savings. This panel will provide key insight on the commercial efforts to develop autonomous and AI capabilities and systems, and how these developments can bolster the DoD s autonomous and AI capability efforts. Our invited speakers will detail their considerations as to how DoD can leverage expertise from the commercial sector, to also include perspectives towards, machine learning, artificial intelligence, accelerating adoption, and more. Moderator: Rory A. Lewis, JD, Ph.D, Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience & AI Assoc. Prof. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Director: AI at, USAF/A2 Warfighter's Edge Advanced Development Lab (WEdge) (Confirmed) Panelists: Andrew Lacher, Autonomy Integration and Adoption Lead, MITRE Corporation (Confirmed) Dr. Larry Lewis, Director, Center for Autonomy and AI (CAAI), CNA Corporation (Confirmed) Eric Hansen, Vice President, Veritone Federal (Confirmed) Dr. May Casterline, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA (Confirmed) 12:15 1:00 Networking Lunch

5 1:00 1:45 Maintaining the U.S. s Edge as a Global Innovation Leader through Innovative Intelligent Systems S&T Efforts - Analyzing information to enable rapid human/intelligent system decision-marking and adaptable mission profiles - Current areas of interest for applying increasing levels of AI and autonomous capabilities to support NSF operations & mission sets - Efforts to advance technological innovation, S&T, and engineering competencies to support AI and autonomous capability development Dr. Henry Kautz (Confirmed) Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems National Science Foundation 1:45 2:30 Update on DARPA s Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Program - Leveraging machine learning techniques that produce more explainable models, and maintain a high level of learning performance and prediction accuracy - Enabling human users to understand, appropriately trust, and effectively manage the emerging generation of artificially intelligent partners - Enabling third-wave AI systems where machines better understand the environment in which they operate David Gunning (Confirmed) PM, I2O DARPA 2:30 3:15 ONR Perspectives Towards the Insertion of Autonomous and Unmanned Capabilities into the Naval Enterprise - Perspective towards where the opportunities exist for inserting autonomous, artificial intelligence, and unmanned capabilities into current and future Naval systems to meet mission needs - Identifying technology requirements to spur innovation for autonomous and unmanned capabilities and systems - Accelerating capability delivery by streamlining business execution Dr. Jason Stack (Confirmed) Deputy Portfolio Manager for Autonomy Office of Naval Research 3:15 End of Summit