Georgia Tech

Enhancing Edge Processing - Imagers with In-pixel Processors: This paradigm shift improves latency and power at the sensor itself, but also makes back-end processing faster and more accurate, and further reduces the amount of information that must be communicated to the external world. Speaker: STO Deputy Director Whitney Mason | 5:52

Future G in the DoD: Discusses the confluence of commercial and military communications focusing on the future of commercial cellular networks in the DoD including prior accomplishments, open challenges, and associated opportunities. Speaker: Tom Rondeau, Principal Director for 5G/Future G, Office of the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Critical Technologies (DCTO(CT)), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering/Chief Technology Officer (CTO) | 5:24

Quantum Computing: Discusses DARPA's current efforts to develop rigorous and quantitative methods for measuring progress and opportunity in the quantum computing space. Speaker: DSO Program Manager Joe Altepeter | 5:13

Innovative Approaches Addressing On-Demand Needs for RNA-Based Medical Countermeasures: Provides an overview of the challenges and innovative approaches to the manufacturing of mRNA-based medical countermeasures in a distributed setting. Speaker: Dan Stover, Head of Applied Technologies, Moderna | 5:18

Domain-Specific System on Chip (DSSoC): Collins Aerospace demonstrates the DASH technology (developed by Arizona State University under DARPA’s DSSoC program) to accelerate relevant applications that must execute simultaneously in the Communications domain. Speaker: MTO Deputy Director Dev Palmer | 11:13 | Program: DASH

Air Combat Evolution (ACE): Demonstrates pilot under-trust, calibrated trust, or over-trust in the AI system during situations both in a simulator and in-flight. Speakers: Thomas Schnell, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, The University of Iowa; Lt. Col. Patrick Highland, Ph.D., U.S. Air Force, Commander and experimental test pilot | 10:18

Semantic Forensics (SemaFor): Demonstrates the Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program is creating novel semantic algorithms to defend against large-scale, automated disinformation attacks, where deepfakes can play a role. Speaker: I2O Program Manager William Corvey | 8:55

The Future of Distributed Military Systems: Large, exquisite military platforms have become increasingly more expensive, with onerous development and fielding timelines. Adversaries have prioritized countering these monolithic platforms, making them unlikely to survive past the first day of conflict. Speaker: TTO Director Michael Leahy | 42:29

Scalable Human Machine Ecosystems: To create vibrant democratic societies and advance human rights, we need to better understand, shape, and manage human-machine hybrid intelligences. Speaker: DSO Deputy Director Bartlett Russell | 43:41

Extreme Environment Electronics: DoD electronic systems must operate in a wide range of environments that includes extremes in temperature, man-made and natural radiation, and high voltage/current conditions. Moderator: MTO Deputy Director Dev Palmer. Panel: Retired Capt. Lynn Petersen, Program Officer, Office of Naval Research; Todd Bauer, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories; Rusty Gilbert, Owner, JR Gilbert Energy LLC. | 46:16

Preparing for Pandemic Threats in a Rapidly Changing World: Preparing for future disease outbreaks requires real-time knowledge of circulating pathogens, emerging diseases, and evolutionary pressures, and flexible frameworks for gathering and utilizing the needed data. Moderator: BTO Program Manager Amy Jenkins. Panel: Karin Bok, Director of Pandemic Preparedness and Emergency Response Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health; Robert Carnahan, Professor and Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Christopher Houchens, Director, Division of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Medical Countermeasures, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). | 46:10

Commercial / Military System of Systems: Commercial developers have built novel Systems of Systems (SoS) for business purposes. How can they leverage these methods for military advantage? Moderator: Sha-Chelle Manning, Chief of Commercial Strategy, DARPA. Panel: Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril Industries; Rusty Thomas, Director, Government Satellites, Amazon; Victor Peng, President, Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group, AMD. | 45:13

Cybercriminals and Nation-State Adversaries - An Unholy Alliance with National Security Consequences: Examines this unholy alliance of cybercriminals and adversary nation-states, describe the inner workings of the ransomware-as-a-service market, and discuss possible approaches for countering this growing cyber threat. Moderator: I2O Program Manager Perri Adams. Panel: Ashley Chafin-Lomonosov, Cybercrimes Investigator, Chainalysis, Inc.; Juan Guerrero-Saade, Principal, SentinelOne; Kimberly Goody, Director of Cybercrime Analysis, Mandiant | 46:09