Intelligence Capabilities and Innovation

Abstract

Intelligence Capabilities and Innovation (ICI) funds Project Intelligence Innovation which is the development, testing, prototyping and demonstration of innovative intelligence capabilities to integrate intelligence and counterintelligence activities across numerous domains and technical areas including signals intelligence (SIGINT), measurements and signature intelligence (MASINT), electronic warfare, cyber, geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), multi-sensor integration, biometrics, identity management, collection management, special communications, clandestine operations, and tagging, tracking and locating. Innovation is the rapid experimentation and development of existing technologies (hardware, software, licenses, databases, analytics, etc.) to create new capabilities and demonstrate their intelligence value in support of warfighter operations. Beginning in FY 2019, ICI also funds Project Maven which fields increasing amounts of automation to Full Motion Video (FMV) ground exploitation stations for Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (TUAVs), Medium Altitude and High Altitude ISR platforms. Maven uses artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer vision algorithms to detect, classify, and track objects within FMV images (e.g., person, vehicle, and weapon). Maven algorithms increase the intelligence value of ISR, reduce the human burden of screening so analysts can multi-task increasing productivity, and seeds the generation of insight from GEOINT. Project Maven is a commercial technology initiative that inserts commercial Artificial Intelligence (AI) into existing programs of records. Most military intelligence exploitation systems were designed pre-AI and require specialized integration to enable the insertion of algorithms into their software baseline. Project Maven is the pathfinder AI initiative for the DoD and is investing in critical AI architecture to support the rapid expansion of AI to other mission areas besides GEOINT. As Maven algorithms increase in capability, the algorithms will move to the edge (on the sensor platform).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0305245D8Z_6_0400_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
Increase of $93.161 million is due to Project Maven moving from USDI General Support program element to ICI program element. Decrease of $3.059 million is a result of Project Intelligence Innovation re-phasing funding to better align its contractual funding to the period of performance.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning
  • Detectors
  • Drone Targeting
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Full Motion Video
  • Geospatial Intelligence
  • High Altitude
  • Medium Altitude
  • Military Intelligence
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Target Recognition
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Cyber
  • Microelectronics

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