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Wargame for Better Solutions, Not Better Wargames

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Are the wargames conducted for the Department of Defense good enough? That question has been getting some attention lately. It might not be the right question.

the point of holding wargames at all. Adding more layers of bureaucracy and quality control does not solve the problems of those seeking answers through wargames. Outcomes are the important issue. Do ... analysis, it clouds our conversations with them. Debates over the definitions of a wargame can actually distract the military from more important questions. One command asked CNA for help with a big, underspecified problem. As part of the proposed study plan, CNA recommended a large tabletop exercise. The analysts at the command later noted that the tabletop exercise had been renamed as an “event

John Crissman on an AI Tool for First Responders

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CNA computer scientist John Crissman and his team developed a creative tool using machine learning and AI to improve situational awareness for disaster response.

, huge fires—and they have lots of sensors. We were in the command center, with each team in its corner, and they sent the teams unidentified streams of data from the sensors, from the Internet ... of work for the FAA, I didn’t come into this knowing anything about air traffic controllers. But we’ve been meeting with air traffic control experts. Getting to know different stakeholders means we can

Three Smart Design Choices for the New Space Systems Command

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Space Force unveiled its design and intentions for the Space Systems Command. It will make some notable changes from the way the Air Force did business.

Three smart design choices for the new Space Systems Command Space Force unveiled its design and intentions for the Space Systems Command. It will make some notable changes from the way the Air Force did business. /images/InDepth/Space%20Force%20resized.jpg Three Smart Design Choices for the New Space Systems Command 83 Margaux Hoar The Organizations, Roles, and Missions research program at CNA conducts organizational, process, and command and control analyses, which provide tailored, transformative solutions to support the vision of CNA's sponsors. Last week, just a few months into its

Attack on U.S. Forces in Kenya

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On January 5, al-Shabaab attacked a Kenyan airstrip used by the U.S. military, killing three Americans

of “active hostilities,” which allowed for expanded targeting authority by the U.S. Africa Command. Since then, the number of U.S. counterterrorism strikes in Somalia has substantially increased ... , but also through a network of population control tactics beyond the reach of any airstrike. For example, al-Shabaab continues to garner revenue through extensive taxation and racketeering schemes

How To Build a Successful Space Force?

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The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act released Monday night by a House-Senate conference committee authorizes the creation of a U.S. Space Force, the first new service created since 1947.

organizational, process, and command and control analyses, which provide tailored, transformative solutions to support the vision of CNA's sponsors. The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act released ... program lifespans, rather than expecting all requirements to be satisfied before the first satellite launch. It will also require smart export control rules that allow the domestic industrial base

Can Kim Jong Un Really Denuclearize?

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A fundamental question facing U.S. policymakers is whether North Korea intends to denuclearize. Most Pyongyang-watchers believe this is an impossibility, at least for the near term.

and their families were executed. In 2009, Kim Jong Il had to do an about-face on a currency revaluation designed to solidify control over the economy during the succession process. This reportedly infuriated many within the high command, and the fierce pushback threatened Kim’s plan to name  Kim Jong Un as heir . He sent his premier (Kim Yong Il) to meet with party leaders to apologize (and take

cna talks: North Korea-U.S. Summit

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In an excellent primer on the current state of affairs between North Korea and the United States, CNA experts  Ken Gause ,  Sarah Vogler  and  Christopher Steinitz  discuss the June 12 summit and how the regime's objectives changed in the years and months leading up to it. They believe that Kim Jong Un's 2018 New Year’s Day speech indicated a shift from a brinkmanship to an engagement posture, as well as a shift in focus from the nuclear program to economic progress. They explain how Kim’s strategic calculus differs from his father's, what is at stake for the regime and its legitimacy, and North Korea's uneasy relationships with South Korea, China, and the United States.

strategic calculus and decision-making in North Korea, North Korean command and control, and U.S. security policy in Northeast Asia. Vogler has also worked on issues related to adversary approaches

ai with ai: A PIG GR_PH

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including an announcement that Ukraine’s defense ministry has begun to use Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology and that Clearview AI has not offered the technology to Russia [1:10]. In similar news, WIRED provides an overview of a topic mentioned in the previous podcast – using open-source information and facial recognition technology to identify Russian soldiers [2:46]. The Department of Defense announces its classified Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) implementation plan, and also provides an unclassified strategy [3:24]. Stanford University Human-Centered AI (HAI) releases its 2022 AI Index Report, with over 200 pages of information and trends related to AI [5:03]. In research, DeepMind, Oxford, and Athens University present Ithaca, a deep neural network for restoring ancient Greek texts, while including both geographic and chronological attribution; they designed the system to work *with* ancient historians, and the combination achieves a lower error rate (18.3%) than either alone [10:24]. NIST continues refining its taxonomy for identifying and managing bias in AI, to include systemic bias, human bias, and statistical/computational bias [13:51]. Authors Pavel Brazdil, Jan N. van Rijn, Carlos Soares, and Joaquin Vanschoren, Springer-Verlag makes Metalearning available for download, which provides a comprehensive introduction to metalearning and automated machine learning [15:28]. And finally, CNA’s Dr. Anya Fink joins Andy and Dave for a discussion about the uses of disinformation in the Ukraine-Russian conflict [17:15].

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including an announcement that Ukraine’s defense ministry has begun to use Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology and that Clearview AI has not offered the technology to Russia [1:10]. In similar news, WIRED provides an overview of a topic mentioned in the previous podcast – using open-source information and facial recognition technology to identify Russian soldiers [2:46]. The Department of Defense announces its classified Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) implementation plan, and also provides an unclassified

ai with ai: AI with AI: It Can Only Be Attributable to Human Error

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In the latest news, Andy and Dave discuss OpenAI releasing “Spinning Up in Deep RL,” an online educational resource; Google AI and the New York Times team up to digitize over 5 million photos and find “untold stories;” China is recruiting its brightest children to develop AI “killer bots;” and China unveils the world’s first AI news anchor; and Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL 9000 has died at age 90. In research topics, Andy and Dave discuss research from MIT, Tegmark, and Wu, that attempts to improve unsupervised machine learning by using a framework that more closely mirrors scientific thought and process. Albrecht and Stone examine the issue of autonomous agents modeling other agents, which leads to an interesting list of open problems for future research. Research from Stanford makes an empirical examination of bias and generalization in deep generative models, and Andy notes striking similarities to previously reported experiments in cognitive psychology. Other research surveys data collection for machine learning, from the perspective of the data. In blog posts of the week, the Mad Scientist Initiative reveals the results from a recent competition, which suggests themes of the impacts of AI on the future battlefield; and Piekniewski follows up his May 2018 “Is an AI Winter On Its Way?” in which he reviews cracks appearing in the AI façade, with particular focus on the arena of self-driving vehicles. And Melanie Mitchell provides some insight about AI hitting the barrier of meaning. CSIS publishes a report on the Importance of the AI Ecosystem. And another paper takes insights from the social sciences to provide insight into AI. Finally, MIT press has updated one of the major sources on Reinforcement Learning with a second edition; AI Superpowers examines the global push toward AI; the Eye of War examines how perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war; SparkCognition publishes HyperWar, a collection of essays from leaders in defense and emerging technology; Major Voke’s entire presentation on AI for C2 of Airpower is now available, and the Bionic Bug Podcast has an interview with CNA’s own Sam Bendett to talk AI and robotics.

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Arctic Strategy and Operations

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CNA provides Arctic analysis and expertise on Arctic operations, strategy, economics, and policy. Our analysts gather data from Arctic military exercises.

command and control for the U.S. Navy Maritime Operations Center in Iceland and the Arctic Expeditionary Capabilities Exercise in Alaska Cybersecurity and interoperability  for Carrier Strike Group