Defense Strategies Institute cordially invites you to an educational and training Summit: Autonomous Capabilities for DoD Applying autonomy enabling technologies for the future fight * For purposes of this agenda, the phrase, autonomous capabilities acknowledges all of the supporting technologies that allow a system to achieve a level of autonomy in its tasking: i.e, machine-learning and it s subsets such as neural networking. AI will primarily be constrained to what is commonly referred to as narrow AI. September 26-27, 2017: The Mary M. Gates Learning Center/United Way, Alexandria, VA
Who We Are: Our Mission: Operating Guidelines: DSI is a premier non-partisan woman owned, minority owned, small business designed to assist in advancing the mission critical goals of the United States' Military and Government. Through our high level educational and training summits and symposiums we are able to reach across all offices and departments in a fair and balanced manner. We bring together the mission relevant representatives in our neutral forums in order to foster the necessary discussions and debates to help them achieve efficient and effective mission success with their partners across the services, government agencies, academia, and industry solution providers. In order to maintain our neutrality, we receive no funding or investment for operating costs from any outside organization, group, or individual. DSI supports our Veterans and severely injured Service men and women through our direct charitable donations. To learn more, please visit : dsigroup.org/giving-back (This is not an official fundraising event.) DSI s Summit directly supports the DoD and Federal mission priorities by providing a conduit for each to efficiently reach audiences outside of their respective offices that directly impact their department's mission success, at no charge to the government, and in an efficient expenditure of time. DSI s Summit will provide a forum for each department to address and improve internal and external initiatives, meet with and hear from partner organizations, disseminate vital capability requirements to industry, increase visibility within the larger community, and generally support their departments *Speaker participation: Speakers are charged NO fees for their participation and is considered a no-cost to DoD and Federal Agencies forum. *The Summit is open and complimentary to all DoD and Federal employees and is considered a compliant education and training forum. (Industry and academia members are charged a fee of attendance) General Target Audience: Personnel from DoD, private sector industry, academia, and nonprofit stakeholders involved in the research, development, future capabilities planning and acquisition of capabilities that create a level of autonomy for a system in the physical or non physical domains, at rest or in motion. A non-partisan educational and training Summit designed as a Town Hall format, created to encourage a real, pragmatic level of discussion and debate amongst all in attendance. Program Design & Goal Summit Guidelines: Sessions are NON ATTRIBUTION / NO PRESS/ OFF THE RECORD Our goal is to bring together leaders from across the DoD and the industry and academic leaders that can help them forge many of the solutions necessary to achieve their respective next steps. Actionable take aways for today, tomorrow, and the future will drive the discussions. By participating in one of our meetings, you will discover an environment that strives to encourage real actionable outcomes for its participants, while fostering new and continued relationships amongst all in attendance. Our speaker faculty and subject matters are chosen through an extensive process of research, and are designed to provide a full spectrum perspective towards the issue at hand. Attendees are expected to have a professional, working knowledge of the subject matter.
-Achieving and applying levels of machine-learning and narrow AI to DoD systems at-rest and in-motion across all physical and non physical domains. FOCUS AREAS Include: -Approaches towards the challenges of testing non deterministic nature ; developing metrics, standards and methodologies for TEV&V -Automated capabilities v.s. man-machine teaming: where each may be best applied for unique mission sets and the supporting open architecture that will allow teaming between manned and unmanned platforms. - Integrating Counter-autonomy: discovering the unique vulnerabilities of autonomous systems, and how to design heterogeneity into classes of U.S. systems to mitigate system-wide vulnerabilities. Location: The Summit will be hosted at the Mary M. Gates Learning Center/United Way: 701 N. Fairfax St. Alexandria, VA http://www.marygateslearningcenter.com * Rental fees will support the nonprofit United Way Foundation Working Agenda: Sessions are NOT in final order and bullet points subject to edits by speakers Day 1: TUESDAY September 26, 2017 7:30 8:30 Registration and Networking Breakfast 8:35 8:50 Opening Welcome and Remarks 8:50 9:20 Reflections and Future Opportunities / Challenges for Autonomous Capabilities in the Navy and Across DoD Dr. Lawrence Schuette (immediate former Director of Research, SES, ONR; Chair, Autonomy COI for DoD (under ASD R&E) (confirmed) 9:20-10:00 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 Col Drew Cukor, USMC, Chief, Algorithmic Warfare Cross Function Team, ISR Operations Directorate, Warfighter Support, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (confirmed) 10:00-10:30 Networking Break 10:30-11:10 Acquisition Perspective towards Autonomous Capabilities for Future Concepts and Mission Capability Needs Across DoD -Prime areas of interest for the potential applications of machine-learning, and varying levels of automation throughout the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of DoD systems -Designing for the future: Perspective towards approaching and developing acquisition options for inserting autonomous capabilities into current systems and platforms and what industry and R&D partners need to know Mr. Dyke Weatherington, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Space, Strategic & Intel Systems (SSI) (confirmed) 11:10-11:50 Maintaining Military Overmatch through Innovation Utilizing Autonomous Capabilities -Re-imagining today s capabilities for tomorrow s fight: viewpoint towards where autonomous capabilities could best be applied across DoD -Treating data as a strategic resource: using big data analytics and machine learning -Challenges and concerns towards rapid insertion (trust, TEVV ) -Thoughts for the private and public sector for their R&D efforts with autonomous capabilities and their potential applications for future concepts Dr. William Roper, Director, Strategic Capabilities Office, OSD (confirmed)
11:50-12:30 Autonomous Capabilities for Future Concepts and Mission Capability Needs Across USSTRATCOM -Current areas of interest where emerging autonomous capabilities may improve efficiency and effectiveness of weapons system development, and command and control architecture across the mission areas - How USSTRATCOM is approaching the current challenges associated with TEVV of autonomous systems, networks, and applications -Perspective towards moving beyond narrow AI, including cognitive electronic warfare capabilities Mr. Kenneth S. Callicutt, SES, J8 Director, Capability and Resource Integration (USSTRATCOM) (confirmed) 12:40 1:30 Networking Lunch 1:30 2:10 Autonomous Capabilities for Unmanned Systems for the Navy -Current pulse on Naval opportunities for inserting autonomous capabilities into current and near term systems -Considerations and challenges towards trust / over-trust of such systems -Developing resource scenario options: long-range plans and designing operational capabilities-based requirements for autonomous capabilities. What industry and research partners need to know Mr. Frank Kelley, DASN, UxS (confirmed) 2:10-2:50 ARCIC: Autonomous Capabilities for the Warfighter to Improve Overmatch -Future applications of consideration for autonomous capabilities:( increase situational awareness; lighten the warfighters physical and cognitive workloads; sustain the force with increased distribution, throughput, and efficiency; facilitate movement and maneuver; and increase force protection) -Current activities for integrating autonomous capabilities in the Common Operating Environment -Supporting foundation for pursuing RAS : common standards, government-owned architecture, interoperability, common platforms, and modular payloads, cyber protection and mission assurance Mr. Ed Mazzanti, Deputy Director, Capabilities Developments (ARCIC), TRADOC (confirmed) 2:50 3:10 Networking Break 3:10 3:50 DIA: Getting ahead of the data: Applying autonomous capabilities to the Intelligence enterprise -Where DIA sees the opportunity to apply machine-learning, and varying levels of automation throughout the strategic, operational, and tactical levels -Defining the boundaries of man and machine: How do you define the limits of what shallow tasks can be given to computing and where deep thinking and decision-making should still be left to the human analyst -How DIA is approaching the development of a culture of trust and balancing the challenge of over-trust with autonomous capabilities and analytics Mr. James Harris, CTO, DIA (confirmed) 3:50 4:30 Applying Autonomous Capabilities to Improve the Efficiency and Effectiveness of USTRANSCOM s Distribution Technologies -Current areas of interest where autonomous capabilities could aid in support of systems at-rest and in-motion across USTRANSCOM s global supply chain Mr. Lou Bernstein, RDT&E Program Director, USTRANSCOM (confirmed) 4:45 End of Day 1 DAY 2, Wednesday September 27, 2017 7:30 8:45 Registration and morning networking breakfast 8:40 8:50 Recap summary of Day 1 8:50 9:30 Army Acquisition Perspective towards Exploiting Autonomous Capabilities to Achieve and Maintain Total Combat Superiority -How ASA ALT is approaching and supporting the acquisition of collaborative human-machine battle networks -Current considerations and challenges towards acquiring and inserting autonomous capabilities,and what industry and R&D partners need to know Dr. Robert Sadowski, SES, Army Chief Roboticist, TARDEC (confirmed) 9:30 10:10 Collaborative Autonomy: A Tactical Offset Strategy -Integrating intelligent systems as force multipliers for improving the effectiveness and reach of Soldiers in complex military relevant environments: understanding ARL s vision and research towards a heterogeneous mix between Soldier and sensors and machines with varying levels of cognition -Viewpoint towards the challenges with TEVV and over-trust of such capabilities -Where ARL is towards scaling intelligent systems down in size to enable collaborative systems for realizable dismounted Soldier ISR asset Dr. Brian Sadler, Senior Research Scientist (ST) for Intelligent Systems, ARL (confirmed)
10:10-10:40 Networking Break 10:40-11:20 Advancing the Science and Technology of Autonomous Capabilities for the Air Force -Building the Backbone for narrow AI: Air Force s current concentration on innovative technologies to explore and develop computational capabilities with greater sophistication, autonomy, intelligence, and assurance -Making platforms more autonomous with multi-infusion systems and data from across different intelligence streams -Human /autonomy teaming -Autonomy oversight and interaction: Understanding the vital situational awareness levels and their components -Understanding flexible autonomy, and ways to improve human trust Dr. Greg Zacharias, Chief Scientist, USAF (confirmed) 11:20-12:00 Autonomous Capabilities / Machine-learning for ISR -Where Air Force sees the opportunity to apply machine-learning, and varying levels of automation throughout the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of ISR -Defining the boundaries of man and machine: How do you define the limits of what shallow tasks can be given to computing and where deep thinking and decision-making should still be left to the human analyst Mr. Kenneth Bray, Civilian Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for ISR, HQAF (confirmed) 12:00-12:40 Autonomous Capabilities for the Cyber Domain -Where CYBERCOM sees the application of future autonomous capabilities best suited for their mission needs -Perspective towards counter-autonomy : applying machine-learning capabilities to help predict and defeat future attacks across the entire network -Defining the boundaries of man and machine: How do you define the limits of what shallow tasks can be given to computing and where deep thinking and decision-making should still be left to the human analyst? Mr. Shawn Turskey, Executive Director, USCYBERCOM (confirmed) 12:40-1:15 Networking Lunch 1:15-1:55 DARPA: XAI Explainable Artificial Intelligence Program -Producing more explainable models, while maintaining a high level of learning performance (prediction accuracy) -Enabling human users to understand, appropriately trust, and effectively manage the emerging generation of artificially intelligent partners Mr. David Gunning, PM, I2O, DARPA (confirmed) 1:55-2:35 Applying Autonomous Capabilities to Improve the Efficiency and Effectiveness of JIDO s Mission Needs -Where JIDO sees the potential and continued application of autonomous capabilities to meet warfighter capability gaps countering today s improvised threats as well as against those anticipated in the near future -Defining the boundaries of man and machine: How do you define the limits of what tasks can be given to computing and where deep thinking and decision-making should still be left to the human operator/analyst -Current considerations and challenges towards rapidly acquiring and inserting autonomous capabilities,and what industry and R&D partners need to know about JIDO s approach Mr. Leonel Garciga, J6/CTO, JIDO, DTRA; ; Dr. Nina Berry, Science and Technology Advisor to JIDO (confirmed) 2:35-3:10 Automated Sense making. Multi-INT Fusion. Activity Based Intelligence. Big Data. The Cloud. Machine Learning: making autonomous sense of data from multiple disparate domains for intelligence analysts -Practical state-of-the-art near real-time AF DCGS multi-int data fusion application. -Exploring simulated cities and their data for data fusion. -Promises and Limits of automation and machine learning in intelligence analysis tasks. -Opportunities and Challenges in leveraging academic partners for autonomous multi-int data fusion development. Shane R. G. Carleton, Senior Research Engineer, Applied Systems Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute (confirmed) 3:10 3:15 Closing Remarks 3:15pm End of Summit Working Agenda: Sessions are NOT in final order and bullet points subject to edits by speakers OPERATING GUIDANCE FOR MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT (Federal, State) ATTENDEES: DSI's Summit is open and complimentary to all U.S. DoD, Federal and State employees and is considered a compliant education and training forum. Questions, please contact Monica Mckenzie : 1.917.435.1266 mckenzie@dsigroup.org http://autonomy.dsigroup.org
Col (ret) Scott Heritsch, USAF, Volunteer Moderator: DSI has asked Col (ret) Heritsch to volunteer his time to help us moderate Q&A and discussion time. He is on deck to lend his expertise and knowledge and will help us to elevate the level of the discussions we will attempt to draw out. While his role is informal, DSI is truly thankful for his acceptance to help us. Scott recently retired from the United States Air Force in July of 2017. Just prior to his retirement, Colonel Heritsch was the Director of Air Force International Programs for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. From 2014 to 2016 he was the Science and Technology Lead for the Joint Staff Robotics and Autonomous Systems Team as well as the Branch Chief, Asset Protection Branch, Force Protection Division, J8, Joint Staff. While at the Pentagon he guided the Joint Staff's vision in robotics, autonomous systems, future war fighting concepts and defense architectures. In this capacity he served as the Executive Secretary for the Defense Science Board s 2015 Summer Study on Autonomy and was a DARPA Service Chiefs Fellow helping to provide operational context to DARPA program managers with an emphasis in autonomy, AI and space architectures. Prior to his time in DC, Scott was Commander of the 586th Flight Test Squadron (T-38C and C-12J) and the Operations Officer of a selectively manned flight test squadron directing classified flight test for prototype aircraft. As an operational F-16 pilot, he deployed to the Southwest Asia and Korean theaters. His education includes an MS in National Security Studies from the National Defense University with an emphasis in the robotics and autonomous systems industry, USAF Test Pilot School, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the USAF Academy. DSI onsite POC: Monica Mckenzie, Senior Partner, Defense Strategies Institute Senior Partner and founding member, Defense Strategies Institute (Oct 2011- present). Former Head of Government Relations, Global Strategies Group ; former Associate for 2nd Committee, United Nations. Masters Degree in International Politics & Conflict Negotiation, School of International Service, American University, D.C.. Certification in Military Conflict Negotiation, Inter-American Defense College, Ft. McNair, D.C