Post on 22-Jun-2018
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Glenn Ayers Adaptive Execution Office
Briefing prepared for 2014 Pacific Operational Science and Technology Conference
26 August 2014
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
2
AEO
• Technology Transition
• Warfighter Engagement
• Technology Demonstrations & Field Trials
• Rapid Response Technology
DARPA Organization
BTO
• Restore & Maintain Warfighter Abilities
• Harness Biological Systems
• Apply Biological Technology at Scale
DSO
• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics
• Transformative Materials
• Supervised Autonomy
• Novel Sensing & Detection
• Complexity
I2O
• Cyber
• Data Analysis at Massive Scales
• ISR Exploitation
TTO
• Air Systems
• Ground Systems
• Marine Systems
• Space Systems
STO
• Battle Management, Command & Control
• Communications & Networks
• ISR
• Electronic Warfare
• Positioning, Navigation & Timing
MTO
• Biological Platforms
• Computing
• Electronic Warfare
• Manufacturing
• Novel Concepts
• Photonics
• Positioning, Navigation & Timing
• Thermal Management
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
3
Prevent strategic surprise from negatively impacting U.S. national security and create strategic surprise for U.S. adversaries by maintaining the
technological superiority of the U.S. military.
AEO Mission
Accelerate transition of game-changing DARPA technologies into DoD capabilities
AEO Strategy:
Provide full spectrum support to DARPA PMs for warfighter engagement and technology transition
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
Undersea Domain Programs
Distributed Agile Submarine Hunting Heterogeneous unmanned distributed systems to find diesel-electric submarines, hard-to-detect threat to our carrier strike groups, ships and submarines
• Operating at full depth allows for large field of view overhead
• Fixed systems provide “barriers” to detect traversing submarines
• Mobile systems hold submarines for handoff to platforms for trail or prosecution
• Acoustic-RF network supported by wave-harvesting buoys
• Build and demonstrate an unmanned sea surface vehicle with ocean-spanning range,
months of endurance, and substantial payload
• Demonstrate high level autonomy for independent operations under sparse supervisory control
• Demonstrate game-changing approach to ASW track and trail mission; explore other potential missions.
ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV)
Upward Falling Payloads Deployable, unmanned, nonlethal distributed systems that lie on the deep-ocean floor in special containers for years at a time • Concept of Operations: Wake nodes up as they are needed & launch to surface • Command UFPs to deploy to any point: Coverage > 300,000 nmi2, latency < 2 hrs, from depth > 6 km
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
Responsive Launch Programs
Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA) aims to enable small satellites to be deployed to orbit from an airborne platform, allowing performance improvement, reduced range costs, and more frequent flights, which drives down cost per pound • Mature and demonstrate technologies for cost effective, routine,
reliable access to low earth orbit (LEO) from airfields
• Cost: $1M/flight in the 100 lb mass payload class
• Responsiveness: 24-hour call-up to fit in the air tasking order cycle
Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) XS-1 aims to break the cycle of escalating space system costs, enable routine space access and hypersonic aircraft and provide responsive launch of approximately 3,000 – 5,000 lbs • Fabricate and fly a subscale X-plane that meets the following requirements:
• Reusable first stage
• Fly 10 times in 10 days
• Fly to Mach 10+
• Launch at less than $5M each for cargoes of approximately 3,000 to 5,000 lbs (compared to $55M for current commercial)
All images are artist’s concepts 5 Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
Sources: 1 http://visual.ly/data-never-sleeps 2 SINTEF 3 Forrester Research estimates
• 571 web sites created every minute of every day 1
• 48 hours of YouTube video is uploaded every minute of every day 1
• 90% of world's data has been generated over last two years 2
• Organizations use less than 5% of available data because the rest is too expensive to deal with 3
6
Data is exploding
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
7
Big Data Programs
Deep web content behind forms and
redirects
Web-domains with shared content
Temporary pages
Organizational Structure Regional
content
• Develop next generation of search technologies to revolutionize the discovery, organization, and presentation of domain-specific content
• Create a new domain specific search paradigm to discover relevant content and organize it in ways that are more immediately useful to specific missions and tasks
• Extend the reach of current search capabilities to the deep web and non-traditional content
Applications - Counter-terrorism, counter-drug, anti-money-laundering, and anti-human-trafficking, with transition partners from DoD and other USG activities.
X-DATA
• Develop computational techniques and software tools for analyzing large volumes of data
• Semi-structured (e.g., tabular, relational, categorical, meta-data)
• Unstructured (e.g., text documents, message traffic)
• Demonstrate technology in variety of applications such as transactional data and financial analysis
Visit www.darpa.mil/opencatalog for open source software library and publications
Data noisy/ imperfect
Visualization
ex: seized media
Analytics
MEMEX
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
Sub-systems
Multifunctional control systems Repurpose concepts Less sys. complexity
Fixed-wing / rotary-wing cross-pollination High lift / low drag Lift sharing
Propulsion and power systems Improved efficiency Distributed systems
Improved power loading Downwash shaping Better hover efficiency
Configurations Integration
High efficiency designs Address physics Fewer trade-offs
Vertical Take-Off and Landing Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane)
Performance Objectives State-of-the-Art (Helicopter)
VTOL X-Plane (Objective)
Sustained max. speed 150-170 kt ≥ 300 kt Hover efficiency (Aircraft FM) 60% ≥ 75% Cruise efficiency (Aircraft L/De) 4-5 ≥ 10 Useful Load 35-40% GW ≥ 40% GW GW 10,000 lb - 12,000 lb (Scalable)
Technology demonstrator that simultaneously enables high speed VTOL flight, efficient hover, and efficient cruise
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
9
Long Range Anti-Ship Missile
Demonstrating an entirely new approach for penetrating sophisticated enemy air defense systems from long range -- with fewer missiles, striking from greater distances, at lower cost DARPA-Navy Demonstration Program Benefits:
Current Anti-ship Missiles LRASM
Large Salvos required for hit Small Salvo achieves hit
Attack within enemy’s kill zone Significantly greater standoff
Less sophisticated target discrimination; Complex cueing Self-correcting
Different air and ship systems Common for air or ship launch; multi-service
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
10
LRASM Deployment Office (LDO)
• Clean launch from B-1B
• Transition to sustained flight
• Receipt of IFTU
• Fly pre-planned waypoints to autonomous handoff point
• Fly to BAA range
• Predict max range IFD-1 could have flown
2 Flight Tests - All Test Objectives Achieved • Long range target acquisition
and geolocation
• Target discrimination
• Transition to ARH homing
• Acquire / track MST with IR sensor
• Aimpoint selection
• Terminal guidance to MST impact
• BHI to ground stations
LRASM Accomplishments
• Accelerated Acquisition for Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare/Increment 1
• Acquisition Decision Memorandum signed by Mr. Frank Kendall, USD AT&L
• Co-located Air Force, Navy and DARPA Program Office
LRASM Deployment Office (LDO) established to deliver early operational capability
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
11
• Identification of viral mutations/resistance to selected MCM (e.g. Tamiflu) • Predict “vaccine strain” sequence that will elicit appropriate immunity and proper fitness • Predict ability of virus to adapt and/or switch to new animal or human host (emergence
of new disease) • Vector-host adaptations for prediction of emerging diseases
Accomplishments- • oRACLE Chip: Demonstrated passage of viruses in droplet
system that allows 1X108 reactions/day (up from 70K) • Vector-Host adaptation: Mapped mosquito (540 proteins),
human (495 proteins) for dengue, of which 134 overlap (interlogs); critical for understanding interspecies fitness.
• Sequencing: Decreased sequence error rate by 103 for Dengue, allowing for unprecedented description of quasi-species.
• Algorithm development: Demonstrated platform capability under anti-viral and antibody selective pressures for defining the fitness landscape of Influenza A Virus
Prophecy
Transform the vaccine and drug development enterprise from observational and reactive to predictive and preemptive by spurring development of a multidisciplinary approach to
predicting viral evolution
Comparison PPI from DENV-human cells and DENV-
mosquito cells
Dengue protein (7) Host protein (137)
Host-host PPI (1141) Dengue-host PPI (137)
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
Participation in Upcoming Exercises and Experiments
12 Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
13
Mission-oriented Resilient Clouds (MRC) Network Path Diversity
• Network Path Diversity (NPD) enables end users to fight through network attacks • Software supports both TCP and UDP packets. • Scheduled to participate in Valiant Shield 14 15-23 September 2014 in Oahu, HI • Objective: Sustain delivery of designated network traffic between NPD nodes
while networks are attacked.
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
14
Participation in Ulchi Freedom Guardian, August
• Users - USFK J33 PIB, US 8th Army G3 (CUOPS and FUOPS), 2 ID (G3/5/7), US 7th AF PJ
• Document types - FRAGOs, OPORDs, CUBs, BUBs • Locations- 8A G3 7th AF Osan 2ID G39 USFK J33
Multilingual Automatic Document Classification, Analysis and Translation for Korea (MADCAT-K)
Development and transition activities
• Deploy updated MT, onsite MT model adaptation using onsite data (vice developer created updates), and OCR capability
• Complete CENTRIX-K connection and accreditation • Fully integrated capability for all units peninsula
wide (Yongsan, Uijeongbu, Osan, Daegu) • Final delivery of MADCAT-K capability 4QFY15
Machine Translation
Text Extraction
OCR
Korean (English) Text
Domains: • CUB/BUBs • OPORDS • MISO
Domains: • ATOs • Intel
Scan
ned
Doc
umen
ts
New Tasks/Domains
Bi-directional text translation of military documents
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
15
All Source Positioning and Navigation (ASPN)
Example ASPN Test Result
Truth Filter 1 ASPN fusion)
Sensors: MEMS IMU, Imagers, compass, magnetometer
PLATFORM OBJECTIVES
Shipboard Real-time configuration changes of a suite of non-GPS navigation sensors
Airborne
Dismount/ Ground Vehicle
Indoor and urban operations Unmanned Ground vehicle
ANS Goal: GPS-equivalent location accuracy in GPS-denied areas, through flexible navigation systems that can be rapidly integrated and reconfigured to support air, land, and sea platforms in their operational environments.
Accuracy (3D RMS) Better than or equal to GPS in the open *
Flexibility and stability Any combination of sensors; <5 seconds downtime due to physical addition/subtraction of sensor.
Power/performance tradeoff Self optimization for navigation accuracy with fewest sensors necessary for a given environment or platform.
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
Schaft
December 2013 top 2 performers
1st place 2nd place
DARPA Robotics Challenge
16
Atlas
The goal is to generate groundbreaking research and development in hardware and software that will enable future robots, in tandem with human counterparts, to perform the most hazardous activities in disaster zones, thus reducing casualties and saving lives
Robots must be adaptable and require four key capabilities to be effective:
• Mobility and dexterity to maneuver in the degraded environments typical of disaster zones;
• Ability to manipulate and use a diverse assortment of tools designed for humans;
• Ability to be operated by humans who have had little to no robotics training;
• Partial autonomy in task-level decision-making based on operator commands and sensor inputs
Next challenge : June 5-6, 2015 in Pomona CA $2 million prize 1 hr to complete tasks • No tethers • No Physical human intervention • Degraded & intermittent
communications
Theroboticschallenge.org
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
Chairman’s Assessment of the QDR (2014)
My greatest concern is that we will not innovate quickly enough or deeply enough to be prepared for the future, for the world we will face two decades from now.
The true risk is that we will fail to achieve the far-reaching changes to our force, our plans, our posture, our objectives, and our concepts of warfare. I believe that dramatic changes will be needed in all of these by 2025. Some of these changes are well-known and outlined in the QDR. Some of these changes are only dimly perceived today and need encouragement and direction. Innovation is the military imperative and the leadership opportunity of this generation. It’s a fleeting opportunity.
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.
18
Thank you
www.darpa.mil
Distribution Statement A: Approved for Public Release, Distribution is Unlimited.