prototype warfare: dod in a data-driven...

Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan

OUSDI Director for Defense Intelligence (Warfighter Support)

1 November 2017

PROTOTYPE WARFARE:

DoD in a Data-Driven Age

Perceptron (1958)

MINOS (1958)

Tank Image used for

Automated Image

Recon System

(1950s)

“Research in Intelligent

Automata” (1964)

Shakey Robot (1966)

ARPA (1958)

Information Processing

Techniques Office (1962)

DARPA (1972)

Tank Recognition

System (1964)

Strategic Computing

Program (1983)

Pilot’s Associate

Autonomous Land

Vehicle

Connection Machine (1985)

RADIUS Image

Understanding System

(1993)

Personalized Assistant

That Learns – PAL (2003)

DARPA Grand

Challenge (2004/05)

“Early neural-nets”

“World’s 1st

massively

parallel

processor”

IARPA (2006)

“Largest AI Project

in DoD History”

>$1 billion

Deliver AI-based algorithms to

tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems,

MQ-1/9, and MQ-9 Wide Area Motion

Imagery processing & exploitation

systems by the end of 2018

Algorithm

Development

Compute

Integration,

User

Engagement,

Optimization

Data

Management

DOCUMENT

EXPLOITATION

COLLECTION

MANAGEMENT

INDICATIONS &

WARNING

M&S and WAR

GAMING

Human Resources

Health

Supply Chain Management

Cyber

Logistics

Recruiting

Procurement

OperationsC4ISR

Information Systems

Cloud

FinanceContract

Management

CENTRALIZED

DIRECTION

DECENTRALIZED

EXECUTION

ESTABLISH DOD

AI STRATEGY

ACCELERATE

INVESTMENTREMOVE

OBSTACLES

SET RESEARCH

AGENDA

CLOUD AI SIMULATOR

QUANTUM COMPUTING CHIPS

(GPU, FPGA, ASIC, etc)

“There is plenty of room between the

utopian and dystopian visions of the fully

automated and artificially intelligent future

we are heading into at rapidly increasing

speed. Each of us has a choice to make: to

embrace these new challenges, or to resist

them. Will we help shape the future and set

the terms of our relationship with new

technology or will we let others force the

terms on us?”

Garry KasparovDeep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

GOVERNMENT

INDUSTRY ACADEMIA

Lieutenant General Jack Shanahan

OUSDI Director for Defense Intelligence (Warfighter Support)

1 November 2017

PROTOTYPE WARFARE:

DoD in a Data-Driven Age