Advanced Innovative Analysis and Concepts

Abstract

This program supports the Department's initiatives to Deter Aggression and Prevail in Conflict, Defend the Homeland, Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage, and Build a Resilient Joint Force and Defense Ecosystem. The Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) conducts analysis to identify and accelerate the development, demonstration, and transition of game-changing capabilities to shape and counter emerging threats and increase the lethality of the Joint Force in contested environments. In a partnership endeavor across the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Joint Staff, Combatant Commands (CCMDs), the Services, the Intelligence Community (IC), and other U.S. Government agencies, the SCO combines capability innovation with new concepts for warfighting that leverage new technology areas, including autonomy, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. SCO conducts projects on accelerated timelines, in all warfighting domains, at any classification or access level. The Advanced Innovative Analysis and Concepts program element supports development, study, and analysis of integrated concepts and prototypes, analysis in support of ongoing efforts to shape and counter emerging threats, cross-Service and cross-Defense/Intelligence concepts, and red-teaming. Projects focus on proving component and subsystem maturity prior to integration in major systems, and may involve risk reduction initiatives. This Program Element also supports the development of concept proposals for assessment by the Technical and Transition Cross Functional Teams established in accordance with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2020 for development under the Advanced Innovative Technologies Program Element. Due to the nature of these projects, specific applications and detailed plans are available at a higher classification level.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0603289D8Z_3_0400_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
The FY 2024 increase of $0.255 is comprised of realignment of $0.058 million to support departmental priorities and an economic assumption increase of $0.313 million.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems (Alumni COI)

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Classification
  • Commerce
  • Communities
  • Demonstrations
  • Emerging Threats
  • Governments
  • Intelligence Community
  • Machine Learning
  • National Security
  • Prototypes
  • Security
  • Small Business
  • Technology Transfer
  • Threats
  • Transitions
  • Unified Combatant Commands

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

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

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