Intelligence Capabilities and Innovation

Abstract

Intelligence Capabilities and Innovation (ICI) funds intelligence problem curation processes, commercial technology piloting, and 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. ICI also funds Project Maven a rapid fielding Artificial Intelligence (AI) program to augment and automate Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) for full motion video Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (TUAVs), Medium Altitude, High Altitude, and Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) ISR platforms in support of defeat-ISIS and National Defense Strategy (NDS) peer/near peer competitor strategy. Maven also brings AI to Captured Enemy Material (CEM), Acoustical Intelligence (ACINT), Overhead Persistent Infrared program (OPIR) and Public Available Information (PAI) exploitation. Maven uses AI, deep learning, and computer vision algorithms to detect, classify, and track objects within Full Motion Video (FMV) images (e.g., person, vehicle, and weapon) and other AI algorithms for CEM and text based projects. Maven algorithms increase the intelligence value of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (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 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). The MAVEN funding will move to the newly created Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team, Program Element (PE) 0307588D8Z beginning in FY 2020.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0305245D8Z_6_0400_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
MAVEN funding will move to the newly created Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team PE 0307588D8Z beginning in FY 2020. .
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning
  • Drone Targeting
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Full Motion Video
  • Geospatial Intelligence
  • High Altitude
  • Medium Altitude
  • Military Intelligence
  • National Security
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Surveillance
  • 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
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems

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