Transcript C4I for the Current & Future Force

The International
Technology Alliance
in
Network and Information
Sciences
Peer Review Meeting
John Gowens
ARL Collaborative Alliance Manager
Graham George
MoD Collaborative Alliance Manager
IBM
Dinesh Verma & David Watson
Program Managers
21-25 September 2009
The ITA Program
THE PROGRAM
 Initiated in May 2006
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Fundamental research in network
and information sciences
IBM-Led Consortium
The Consortium and the US/UK
Governments establish an Alliance
5-year program with 5-year option
 Awarded a fundamental research
agreement and two transition
contracts
 Total funding for first 5 years =
$58M
 Approximately 40-60% split
industry-academia
 Consortium cost share ~ 12%
 Builds on UK Defence Technology
Centres and US ARL Collaborative
Technology Alliances
COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP
 UK MOD/Dstl and US Army Research Laboratory
working together closely to jointly lead programme
 Single coherent fundamental research programme
 Involves US/UK industry, academia, and government
 Promotes collaboration between leading industrial
and academic organizations in both countries
 Collaboratively push the state-of-the-art
 Critical mass of researchers focused on key challenges
 Staff rotations to deepen collaborations
 Develop a deep understanding of how technologies
can contribute to future defence capabilities
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PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
 The technical quality and significance of the advances made under the
program
MILITARY RELEVANCE
 The value to the U.S. and UK stakeholders of the advances made under
the program
COLLABORATION
 The extent to which the program has delivered greater value to both
governments through effective and true collaboration across
international boundaries, organizational boundaries and technical area
boundaries
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The ITA Team
ACADEMIA
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Carnegie Mellon University
City University of New York
Columbia University
Pennsylvania State University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of California Los Angeles
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts
ACADEMIA
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Cranfield University
Imperial College, London
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Aberdeen
University of Cambridge
University of Southampton
University of York
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INDUSTRY
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INDUSTRY
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BBNT Solutions
Boeing
Honeywell
IBM Research
Applied Research Associates
IBM UK
Logica
Roke Manor Research
Systems Engineering
and Assessment
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ITA Areas of Investigation
Network Theory
(TA1)
TECHNICAL AREAS
Sensor Information
Processing and
Delivery (TA3)
Security Across a
System-of-Systems (TA2)
Distributed Coalition
Planning and Decision Making (TA4)
GRAND CHALLENGES
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Get the right information at the right time
to coalition war-fighters
 Before they realize they need it
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mediation based on risk & context
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Rapid Collaboration between coalition warfighters
 Share knowledge, trust and risk
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Across cultural boundaries
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ITA Recent Activities Timeline
2006
AWARD
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Formal Launch
Initial Plan
Biennial Program Plan (BPP07)
BPP Planning
Meeting
(Hursley)
Collaboration
Boot Camp
(CUNY)
Biennial Program Plan (BPP09)
BPP Planning
Collaboration
Meeting (Hawthorne) Boot Camp
(Hawthorne)
Collaboration Boot Camp
(Southampton)
1st ITA Conference 2nd ITA Conference 3rd ITA Conference 4th ITA Conference
Washington
London
Peer Review
Washington
London
Activities Reviewed 2008
Changed
BPP07
Peer Review
Biennial Program Plan (BPP09)
Current
Review
Possible Option
Extension
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES POST PEER
REVIEW
NEW MEMBERS
 Brought several new members to bolster team strength in various
projects in all technical areas
RESHAPED PROJECT FOCUS
 Significant changes in research scope and focus for some projects,
EVALUATION PROCESS FOR BPP 09
 Projects and Activities selected in consultation with peer reviewers
CURRENT PEER REVIEW SCOPE
 Reshaped Projects of BPP 07 ~ work continued till May 09
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Results of BPP 09
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Most new activities are in-progress (started May 09)
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ITA Projects
* Projects with transitions
Noteworthy changes
Project
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Theoretical Foundations for Design and Analysis of *
Wireless and Sensor Networks
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Interoperability of Wireless Networks and Systems
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Dynamic Self-Organizing Wireless Networks*
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Policy Based Security Management
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Energy Efficient Security Architectures/Infrastructures
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Quality of Information of Sensor Data
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Task-Oriented Deployment of Sensor Data
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Increased focus on cross-organization issues
Increased focus on dynamic graphs
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Increased focus on distributed aspects of policy
Trust and Risk Management in Dynamic Coalition
Environments
Infrastructures
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Significant change, focus on metadata aspects
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Increased focus on functional models and db paradigm
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Agile Sensor Networks and Data Discovery
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Mission Adaptive Collaborations
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Cultural Analysis
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Semantic Integration and Collaborative Planning
P11 successfully transitioned
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Emphasis on network enabled cognition
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Peer Review Panel
Provides independent assessment of each project by internal
and external experts with respect to:
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The relevance of the problems addressed
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The technical merit of the approaches adopted
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The significance of the research
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The quality of the results achieved
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The utility of the outcomes
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ITA Contacts
ALLIANCE MANAGERS
 John (Jay) Gowens (ARL)
 Graham George (UK MOD)
 Dave Watson (IBM-UK)
 Dinesh Verma (IBM-US)
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
AGREEMENTS/CONTRACTS
 Patty Fox (ARL)
 Peter Chatwal (UK MOD)
[email protected]
[email protected]
WEBSITES
 Public Website
 ITA Collaboration System
http://usukita.org
https://www.usukitacs.com
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