Ohio State University

Closing the Loop on Learning: An infrastructure for using labeled datasets from deployed platforms in order to enhance performance of future learning algorithms. TTO Program Manger Lt. Col. Ryan Hefran, U.S. Air Force | 5:10

Enhancing Edge Processing: Imagers with In-pixel Processors: "By 2025, the amount of data generated each day is expected to reach 463 exabytes globally.*" To be useful, this data has to be stored and processed which requires large amounts of both time and power and is typically done in huge data centers, which can have a communications bottleneck, particularly if processing sensor data. Jamal Molin, Senior Principal FPGA and ASIC Design Engineer, Northrup Grumman | 5:52

Winning at Cyber: Describes how, through the use of mathematics-based development and assurance technologies, it is possible to create provably safe systems and effectively break this conflict spiral. John Launchbury, Chief Scientist, Galois & Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Tangram Flex | 7:14

U.S. Navy Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) - Current and Future: Describes a macro-level overview of current and planned U.S. Navy UUV programs. Capt. Jason Weed, U.S. Navy, Commodore, Navy Unmanned Undersea Vehicles Squadron ONE (UUVRON-1) | 5:32

Applying Biologically Sourced Materials to Build Inorganic Structures: Outlines the wide variety of potential applications of biologically sourced materials for building inorganic structures. Angela Belcher, Department Head, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Biological Engineering | 5:43

Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS): This program focuses on advances in remotely piloted aircraft automation, to help reduce pilot workload, augment mission performance and improve aircraft safety. Speaker: TTO Program Manager Stuart Young | 10:04 | Program: ALIAS 

Assured Autonomy: Demonstrate the use of a neural network to compute real-time collision avoidance trajectories for flight safety (UAV). Speaker: Sandeep Neema, Director, Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University | 11:45

Bridging the Gap (BG+): AI-enabled Solutions for Spinal Cord Injury: Focuses on sensory restoration using spinal stimulation. Speakers: BTO Program Manager Cmdr. Jean-Paul Chretien, U.S. Navy; David Borton, Associate Professor of Engineering, Brown University | 11:09

Pushing the Limits of Technology: Explores three areas of importance to national security through the lens of physics, actively engaging the audience to provide perspective and insight about how DARPA’s DSO approaches high-impact, high-risk, basic research. Speaker: DSO Office Director Jinendra Ranka | 35:31

The Next Wave of Microelectronics and its Impact: New manufacturing paradigms will drive microelectronics to vertical integration to continue expected performance gains. What is needed to tame this growing complexity and reduce innovation time-cycles? Speaker: Carl McCants, MTO special assistant to the DARPA director | 41:32

Trustworthy AI for Adversarial Environments: AI/ML is providing significant benefit in a wide range of application domains, but also provides adversaries with a new attack surface. Speaker: I2O Deputy Director Matt Turek | 44:08

Redefining Future Platforms: The mission of the Tactical Technology Office is to redefine access and deliver effects to every physical domain in the battlespace: space, air, ground, sea, and undersea in support of national security policy. Speaker: TTO Director Michael Leahy | 37:10

Systems of Autonomy: Describes the importance of autonomous systems to the DoD and examine the barriers, technical and otherwise, specific to the successful fielding operational use of autonomous systems and platforms. Moderator: STO Program Manager Paul Zablocky. Panel: Christopher Kroninger, Emerging Overmatch Technologies (EOT) ERP Program Manager, Combat Capability Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM’s ARL); Amber Walker, Technical Director, Land Systems, Anduril Industries; TTO Program Manager Stuart Young; Michael Qin, Expeditionary Robotics Program Officer, Office of Naval Research. | 46:23

Saving Lives on the Battlefields of the Future: Defines grand challenges for battlefield medicine and highlight opportunities for biotechnology, decision-making, robotics, sensing, and artificial intelligence to undergird new systems of life-saving care for future battlefields. Moderator: BTO Program Manager Cmdr. Jean-Paul Chretien, Program Manager. Panel: Col. Stacy Shackelford, Trauma Medical Director, Defense Health Agency Colorado Springs Market; Retired Col. Ron Poropatich, Director, University of Pittsburgh Center for Military Medicine Research; Michael van Lent, President and CEO, Soar Technology, Inc.; Neil Shortland, Director, University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Terrorism and Security Studies. | 0:00

Next-Generation Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Devices: Discusses the promise and opportunities in realizing high-performance semiconductor optoelectronic and electronic devices using wide and ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors. Speaker: Siddharth Rajan, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science Engineering, The Ohio State University | 5:23

Pushing Boundaries in Microelectronics and AI: Ohio State leads an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Center of Excellence focused on Enabling Cyber Defense in Analog and Mixed Signal Domains (CYAN) as well as an NSF-funded AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (AI-EDGE). Speakers (Ohio State): Waleed Khalil, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering ElectroScience Lab; Eylem Ekici, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering. | 42:09