A strawman DARPA IT research strategy Victoria Stavridou Director, System Design Laboratory SRI International

The need for a new IT strategy 50 years after the Turing Test was posited, computers are still idiot savants DARPA is the only agency on the planet that can change that! America will never be the same again post 911 The Quadrennial Defense Review Report and the continuing Revolution in Military Affairs EO Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Information Age Current “fog” over ITO mission and programs It is time for a fresh start!

A new IT strategy Systems that Think: Truly intelligent, pervasive, hardened, computers A transformational capability Missile defense Info Ops Power projection Information exploitation Space systems Joint C4ISR Joint operations Experiments Intelligence exploitation RMA QDR pillars QDR Initiatives

Intelligent systems today: From the human to the machine Endowing machines with basic human abilities (vision, speech, NLP, simple reasoning) so that they can handle simple tasks and communicate with humans better

Tomorrow: Systems that think Higher brain functions (reasoning, inventing, collaborating, planning, learning) The intelligence is in the coalition

From computers as servants to computers as mentors Computers return the favor: they augment human intellect

Extreme Teams People Machines Information Process People team with intelligent machines  Improve mission effectiveness 100 fold  Perform hitherto impossible missions  Reduce casualties 100 fold

Keeping the edge Systems that think are critical to DARPA’s mission and the continuing RMA An Intelligent Systems Office is needed to focus on and to realize the vision Program portfolio needs to be well structured: –foundational (eg test and measurement) –infrastructure (eg picoOS, FAST, DASADA) –capability oriented (eg speech recognition, infosensors) –mission oriented (eg early warning) Keep the effort in one office for critical mass, team building and crucially, for research context Tech transfer into the military and the Information Offices

ISO vision structure and goals Measurement & Evaluation, dependability, ontology learning,bioinspired computing, dynamic composition, ensemble programming, s/w engineering Networks (bioinspired, ad hoc), resource discovery, heterogeneous dynamic computing coalitions, wireless, security & privacy, fault management, operating systems, interoperability, embedded systems Natural language, vision, speech, reasoning, coherent perception, autonomy, adaptivity, robustness Systems that think: Intelligent, pervasive, hardened computers A defining military mission IXO Cyberhabitats (collaborative campaign planning) TTO Deceptor (hybrid battlefield) Missions Paradigm Capabilities Infra- structure Foundations IAO Infosensor (Early warning)

Strawman ISO Charter Post PC Artificial Intelligence Trusted systems Biocomputing Foundations Systems that think