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Dr. Rebekah Yang on Creatively Planning for Drone Traffic

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CNA’s Rebekah Yang innovated to apply her agent-based model for slowing the spread of COVID in corrections facilities to future drone air traffic scheduling.

for Data Management Analytics . She is the most recent winner of the Phil E. DePoy Award for Analytical Excellence. CNA continuously invests in innovative, independent research projects ... connections. Collaboration across centers and divisions is really encouraged at CNA. So even though my primary work is in the Center for Data Management and Analytics working on aviation concepts ... aircraft systems) traffic management space for a while, starting out deep in the technical details of how to do cybersecurity when exchanging messages between drones and drone operators. But when we looked

intersections: Issue 9, April 2024

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Intersections, Issue 9, CNA news digest of China’s efforts to acquire Western technology, U.S. and partner efforts to protect technology for national security.

. Figure 1. Declining access to economic data China economic disclosures: annual number of economic indicators made available by China's National Bureau of Statistics Source: FT, October 21, 2022 based on CEIC/CNBS data Yet achieving China's innovation and self-reliance goals will not be easy given China's current economic challenges. The PRC government work report notes ... difficult as public access to PRC economic data continues to decline. (Figure 1 summarizes the decline in publicly available economic indicators over the past decade, according to PRC government data

ai with ai: EPIC BLOOM

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI and autonomy news and research, including an announcement that the Federal Trade Commission is exploring rules for cracking down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security, with the public having an opportunity to share input during a virtual public form on 8 September 2022. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), with help from Caroline Kraczon, releases The State of State AI Policy, a catalog of AI-related bills that states and local governments have passed, introduced or failed during the 2021-2022 legislative season. In robotics, Xiaomi introduces CyberOne, a 5-foot 9-inch robot that can identify “85 types of environmental sounds and 45 classifications of human emotions.” Meanwhile at a recent Russian arms fair, Army-2022, a developer showed off a robot dog with a rocket-propelled grenade strapped to its back. NIST updates its AI Risk Management Framework to the second draft, making it available for review and comment. DARPA launches the SocialCyber project, a hybrid-AI project aimed at helping to protect the integrity of open-source code. BigScience launches BLOOM (BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model), a “bigger than GPT-3” multilanguage (46) model that a group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created, that anyone can download and tinker with it for free. Researchers at MIT develop artificial synapses that shuttle protons, resulting in synapses 10,000 times faster than biological ones. China’s Comprehensive National Science Center claims that it has developed “mind-reading AI” capable of measuring loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. Researchers at the University of Sydney demonstrate that human brains are better at identifying deepfakes than people, by examining results directly from neural activity. Researchers at the University of Glasgow combine AI with human vision to see around corners, reconstructing 16x16-pixel images of simple objects that the observer could not directly see. GoogleAI publishes research on Minerva, using language models to solve quantitative reasoning problems, and dramatically increasing the SotA. Researchers from MIT, Columbia, Harvard, and Waterloo publish work on a neural network that solves, explains, and generates university math problems “at a human level.” CSET makes available the Country Activity Tracker for AI, an interactive tool on tech competitiveness and collaboration. And a group of researchers at Merced’s Cognitive and Information Sciences Program make available Neural Networks in Cognitive Science.

surveillance and lax data security, with the public having an opportunity to share input during a virtual public form on 8 September 2022. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), with help from ... , Army-2022, a developer showed off a robot dog with a rocket-propelled grenade strapped to its back. NIST updates its AI Risk Management Framework to the second draft, making it available for review ... . /images/AI-Posters/Season%205/%235_22_EPIC_BLOOM.jpg EPIC BLOOM Announcements / News FTC Explores Rules Cracking Down on Commercial Surveillance and Lax Data Security Practices Statement of Chair

China's national security laws: implications beyond borders

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The People's Republic of China uses national security laws to assert its interests, including modernizing China's military and controlling critical technology.

and data management and storage. Companies must report to and cooperate with PRC authorities, and they must assist with state-directed intelligence and counterintelligence efforts. Data may fall ... for China to: Access data or encryption keys held by foreign firms with operations in the PRC (Cybersecurity Law, Data Security Law, Cryptography Law) Detain foreign nationals living, working ... from sending “sensitive” data abroad (Data Security Law, Counterespionage Law) Require PRC citizens to assist in intelligence-gathering activities (National Intelligence Law) National security

china ai and autonomy report: Issue 17, June 16, 2022

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The China AI and Autonomy Report, issue 17, is a biweekly newsletter published by CNA, on artificial intelligence and autonomy in China.

, electrical engineering and automation, and big data technology. This marks a shift from previous years where, from 2013-2016, majors such as financial management, international economics, and other majors ... adopting new technologies, such as AI, big data, the Internet of Things, and new computing power, is leading to "intelligent battlefield operations." The authors describe how the "extensive application ... weapons and equipment are able to analyze situations independently and make corresponding decisions based on information provided by command information systems and data from sensor technologies

Rebekah Yang Honored for Analytical Excellence at CNA Awards

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CNA honored Systems Engineer Dr. Rebekah Yang with the Phil E. Depoy Award for Analytical Excellence.

are truly remarkable." Presenting the award, CNA President and CEO Dr. Katherine McGrady said that Yang's UAS Traffic Management Message Security approach "has played a pivotal role in shaping the FAA's ... FAA cybersecurity strategy, the paper she wrote on her Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management Message Security approach won first place at the 2022 Integrated Communications, Navigation ... facilities from COVID-19.  CEO Teamwork Award: FEMA Grants Management Modernization Team CNA's FEMA Grants Management Modernization Team was honored for their superior performance in leading

National Security Seminar September 2023

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Three emergency managers and CNA analysts discuss a meta-analysis of over 75 COVID-19 after-action reports in this summary of a CNA National Security Seminar.

National Security Seminar September 2023 The COVID-19 Pandemic, Public Health, and Emergency Management: Best Practices and Lessons Learned Three emergency managers and CNA analysts discuss ... discussion on best practices and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic ( see recording here ). The panelists included Amy Gillespie, Deputy Director with the Department of Emergency Management for Pierce County, Washington State; Curtis Brown, co-founder of the Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management and Virginia’s former State Coordinator of Emergency Management; and Sarah

Evolution of Gender Integration in the DON Summary of Five Analytical Efforts

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CNA analysts focus on the changes in the gender mix of personnel on retention and manning and how changes effect actual and potential personnel policy changes on Department of the Navy personnel inventories and budgets.

Management and Comptroller) (ASN(FM&C)) sponsored a multi-pronged effort to explore the effects of actual and potential personnel policy changes on Department of the Navy (DON) personnel inventories ... force management tool. Finally, we labeled the third evolutionary phase the “modern phase.” Starting in 2008, it continues through the present. The modern phase is primarily characterized by the total ... an inclusive environment. Evolutionary constraints The first evolutionary constraint is cognitive bias in decision-making, which has tended to limit both the questions asked and the data used to assess

The Impacts of Extreme Weather on Older Adults

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Older U.S. adults face rising risks of suffering and dying from extreme weather due to climate change and rising numbers of seniors in high-risk locations.

, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management agency (EMA) resources and community resilience. As older adults account for a larger share of our population, EMAs will have to consider ... , and Missouri—focusing on health, housing, and economic effects and how governments (including emergency management) supported older adults during the planning for, response to, and recovery from natural ... weather, this report explores the effects of climate-related extreme weather events on older adults and the current state of federal, state, and local emergency management agencies’ planning, response

Goodharts Law

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Goodhart’s Law says, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” CNA analysts discuss actions to mitigate the effects of Goodhart’s Law.

, and the use-it-or-lose-it “rule” in Department of Defense program management. The manipulation of measures resulting from Goodhart’s Law is pervasive because direct measures of effectiveness (MOEs), which ... new measurement data, rather than harvesting existing and possibly compromised data Help customers establish authoritative and difficult-to-manipulate definitions for measures Identify and avoid the use of manipulated data and data prone to manipulation Use measurement data not generated by the organization being measured Collect data secretly or after a measurable activity has already