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David Kaufman

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in SAS, including the areas of public safety, homeland security, emergency management, and public health. From 2009 to 2015, Kaufman served as the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Associate ... management. Kaufman is a former faculty member at the Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, and has formerly served in several senior positions in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and in FEMA. Kaufman earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from

National Security and the Threat of Climate Change

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CNA’s Military Advisory Board finds that climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability and poses a serious threat to America’s national security.

with Hurricane Katrina, may lead to increased missions for a number of U.S. agencies, including state and local governments, the Department of Homeland Security, and our already stretched military ... National Security and the Threat of Climate Change National Security and the Threat of Climate Change CNA’s Military Advisory Board finds that climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability and poses a serious threat to America’s national security. The purpose of this study is to examine the national security consequences of climate change. A dozen of the nation’s most respected

ai and autonomy in russia: Issue 39, May 30, 2022

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of Homeland Security granted Ukrainians temporary protected status for 18 months, allowing them to stay and work in the US without a visa, but did not do so for Russians. Recently, however, the Biden ... of AI tech and for the code to serve as instrument of “soft” regulation. Thus far, more than 50 organizations in Russia have signed it and have begun to implement its provisions. MILITARY AND SECURITY ... RATNIK COMBAT SYSTEM TURNS 10 YEARS OLD Russia’s Nezavisimoe Voennoe Obozrenie (NVO-Independent Military Review), one of Russia’s key online publications about military and security developments

ai with ai: Pet Shop Bots: BEHAVIOR

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including: 0:46   : The GAO releases a more extensive report on US Federal agency use of facial recognition technology, including what purposes. 3:24   : The US Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate publishes its AI and ML Strategic Plan, with an implementation plan to follow. 5:39   : Ada Lovelace Institute, AI Now Institute, and Open Government Partnership publish a global study on Algorithmic Accountability for the Public Sector, which focuses on accountability mechanisms stemming from laws and policy. 9:04   : Research from North Caroline State University shows that the benefits of autonomous vehicles will outweigh the risks, with proper regulation. 13:18   : Research section Introduction 14:24   : Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI and the University of Washington demonstrate that artificial agents can learn generalizable visual representation during interactive gameplay, embodied within an environment (AI2-THOR); agents demonstrated knowledge of the principles of containment, object permanence, and concepts of free space. 19:37   : Researchers at Stanford University introduce BEHAVIOR (Benchmark for Everyday Household Activities in Virtual, Interactive, and ecOlogical enviRonments), which establishes benchmarks for simulation of 100 activities that human often perform at home. 24:02   : A survey examines the dynamics of research communities and AI benchmarks, suggesting that hybrid, multi-institution, and persevering communities are the ones more likely to improve state-of-the-art performance, among other things. 28:54   : Springer-Verlag makes Representation Learning for Natural Language Processing available online. 32:09   : Terry Sejnowski and Stephen Wolfram publish a three-hour discussion on AI and other topics.

4-42 Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including: 0:46   : The GAO releases a more extensive report on US Federal agency use of facial recognition technology, including what purposes. 3:24   : The US Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate publishes its AI and ML Strategic Plan, with an implementation plan to follow. 5:39   : Ada ... . OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) S&T DIRECTORATE RELEASES AI AND ML STRATEGIC PLAN Report FIRST GLOBAL STUDY THAT ANALYZES ALGORITHMIC ACCOUNTABILITY POLICY FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR Executive

ai with ai: Beauty Is in the AI of the Perceiver

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news, including an upgraded version of OpenAI’s CoPilot, called, Codex, which can not only complete code but creates it as well (based on natural language inputs from its users). The National Science Foundation is providing $220 million in grants to 11 new National AI Research Institutes (including two fully funded by the NSF). A new DARPA program seeks to explore how AI systems can share their experiences with each other, in Shared-Experience Lifelong Learning (ShELL). The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs introduces two AI-related bills: the AI Training Act (to establish a training program to educate the federal acquisition workforce), and the Deepfake Task Force Act (to task DHS to produce a coordinated plan on how a “digital content provenance” standard might assist with decreasing the spread of deepfakes). And the Inspectors General of the NSA and DoD partner to conduct a joint evaluation of NSA’s integration of AI into signals intelligence efforts. In research, DeepMind creates the Perceiver IO architecture, which works across a wide variety of input and output spaces, challenging the idea that different kinds of data need different neural network architectures. DeepMind also publishes PonderNet, which learns to adapt the amount of computation based on the complexity of the problem (rather than the size of the inputs). Research from MIT uses the corpus of US patents to predict the rate of technological improvements for all technologies. The European Parliamentary Research Service publishes a report on Innovative Technologies Shaping the 2040 Battlefield. Quanta Magazine publishes an interview with Melanie Mitchell, which includes a deeper discussion on her research in analogies. And Springer-Verlag makes available for free An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI (by Christoph Bartneck, Christoph Lütge, Alan Wagner, and Sean Welsh).

seeks to explore how AI systems can share their experiences with each other, in Shared-Experience Lifelong Learning (ShELL). The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs introduces ... Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Advances Two AI Bills Deepfake Task Force Act/Text Washington Post: Summary of issues AI Training Act/text Research Perceiver

Timothy Beres

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an environment to foster cooperation and empower individual leadership around shared values. Over the previous eight years, Beres led CNA’s Safety and Security portfolio, which spans criminal justice, homeland security, emergency management, and emergency public health. Under his leadership, CNA Safety and Security developed and advanced the practice of Smart Policing nationally, conducted ... served in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a member of the Senior Executive Service. He was responsible for implementing a national preparedness capabilities assessment and strategy process

Matthew Travis

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protection (NPPD) within the Department of Homeland Security. Before entering government service in 2018, Travis served as vice president of homeland security for Cadmus, a security, energy, and environmental professional services firm. He joined Cadmus when the security consultancy he co-founded, Obsidian Analysis, Inc., was acquired by Cadmus in 2016. A former naval officer, Travis served ... director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation’s leading civilian cybersecurity agency. There he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the $2+ billion, 2000

Forward from the Start

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Why was the Navy at the forefront of the far-forward attacks on alQaeda in Afghanistan and the move against Iraq, while willing to take a back seat to the Coast Guard at home? Why did the Navy respond to one of the worst failures in defense at home in the nation's history principally by striking farther forward than it ever had before? Current national policy and naval strategy provide much of the answer, of course. History, however, also provides some clues.

Forward from the Start “Forward . . . From the Start”: The U.S. Navy & Homeland Defense: 1775-2003 Why was the Navy at the forefront of the far-forward attacks on alQaeda in Afghanistan and the move ... of the passengers in the fourth aircraft). The American people and their leaders and representatives demanded immediate protection, including close-in naval harbor and offshore homeland defense ... for that much smaller service. Much of its force structure on the East Coast sped for New York, where the Coast Guard provided security for the evacuation of a million people from the lower Manhattan

CNA report finds integration of unmanned air, ground, and maritime systems could improve port security and emergency response

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CNA report finds integration of unmanned air, ground, and maritime systems could improve port security and emergency response

includes criminal justice, homeland security, and data management. About Virginia Institute for Spaceflight and Autonomy The Virginia Institute for Spaceflight and Autonomy (VISA) at Old Dominion ... CNA report finds integration of unmanned air, ground, and maritime systems could improve port security and emergency response /images/news/PressRelease.png CNA report finds integration of unmanned air, ground, and maritime systems could improve port security and emergency response A CNA study, with support from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation, says unmanned technology improves

The Nuclear Programs of Russia China North Korea and Iran

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This report analyzes nuclear weapons programs in Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, including nuclear command and control, R&D, funding, staffing, testing.

. Nuclear weapons as ultimate guarantor of sovereignty and security The Soviet Union officially acquired nuclear weapons in 1949 and gradually developed a triad of strategic nuclear forces consisting ... views nuclear weapons as the ultimate guarantor of its security and an insurance policy to protect against nuclear and large-scale conventional attacks. In Russia’s “strategic deterrence” framework ... the United States. Pyongyang’s desire for a nuclear weapons program dates to the earliest years of the state and is intrinsically linked to ensuring the security of the Kim family regime. Under Kim Jong Un