ISR Modernization & Automation Dvmt (IMAD)

Abstract

(U) AF ISR must adapt large data sets and condition it into mission ready data sets, allowing personnel to discover, manage, and analyze data and transform it into living intelligence. (U) Kill Chain Automation applies new methodologies; advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning; ensures data is accessible, discoverable, and interoperable; and delivers decision advantage from detection to mission execution. (U//FOUO) Algorithmic Warfare encompasses efforts to develop, employ, or field artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision algorithms. This critical shift to the digital age will transition ISR analysis from the "what" to the "why" of analysis via human-machine teaming. Algorithmic Warfare can provide world-class ISR support to Joint Operations at the scale and speed required in modern warfare against our adversaries. (U//FOUO) Algorithmic Warfare reshapes current sense, identify, attribute, share (SIAS, previously known as PED - processing, exploitation, and dissemination) models because the current models will be unsustainable and ineffective in developing ISR digital solutions to find efficiencies and thrive in a complex operating environment. This funding is a first step to address ISR analysts' struggles with data overload; they currently spend 80 percent of their time searching for data and 20 percent of their time making sense of the information. (U) Supports National Defense Strategy priority of operating at the "speed of relevance." (U) Supports Next Generation ISR Dominance Flight Plan. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0305022F_7_3600_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automation
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Data Sets
  • Deep Learning
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • National Security
  • Product Development
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy

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