In part due to my experience in government and my continued engagement with the venture capital and high tech community I’m frequently asked by associates in DoD to help with market surveys related to technology needs. DoD has been working hard to get the word out on what they see as technology gaps, and they follow formal and incredibly fair procedures to do so (including posting needs and requirements and solicitations to publicly accessible websites, for example). But these methods are far from optimized, largely because the high tech community does not lurk on government procurement websites.
Tech CEOs can be a huge help to DoD by tracking their mission needs and providing input on capabilities that meet them. We can make it easy for you to do just that.
We have just been asked to help provide inputs on companies that meet emerging needs of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC).
This post captures the key requirements the JAIC is interested in (all dealing with some aspect of artificial intelligence or machine learning). After reviewing this list, if your firm can meet any of these needs, just let us know which needs you can address and we will help bring your company to the attention of DoD. The intention of the office requesting this info is to hold a “solutions meeting” in the Northern Virginia area this fall. If your company is selected you will be asked to come and brief and perhaps give a demo.
More Information From The Official DoD Notice
The Department of Defense’s (DoD Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO) will conduct a Solutions Meeting on behalf of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) in late Summer / early Fall 2019 in Northern, VA.
The Meeting will provide selected innovative companies with an opportunity to make short technical presentations to government representatives about their technologies and products. There is a potential for companies to be selected for pilot projects or experimentation if their technology appears to match the DoD’s needs.
The Cyberspace National Mission Initiative (NMI) of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is looking for technologies in the following areas that utilize or enable the application of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning:
Autonomous Cyber Defense
- Network & Application Level Event Detection
- Anomaly detection
- Non-signature-based detection
- Zero-Day detection & mitigation
- Continuous monitoring from bus to user level
- Cueing & orchestration of defenses and remediation
- Vulnerability ID & autonomous patching
- Adaptive defenses and self-securing systems
User Activity Monitoring & Attribution
- User/System baselining, profiling and analysis
- Credential misuse analysis and detection
- Data loss detection and prevention
- Social factors integration
Social Media and Dark Web Analysis
- Sentiment analysis
- Multiple datasets, sources/inputs
- Retrospective and prospective analysis
- Social baselines discovery, pattern measurement and anomaly detection
- Comprehensive views over multiple sources/platforms
- Adversary persona identification
- Message propagation assessment and prediction
Network Mapping
- Device identification & role classification
- Change detection
- Intelligent scanning
- Topology inference from partial data
Autonomous Dev Ops
- Rapid development
- Self-generating code
- Code testing
- Code obfuscation
- AI assisted development environment
Data Engineering
- Data aggregation and sharing
- Autonomous data organization
- Extract relevant content and apply context
- Filter and process information to achieve understanding
- Gather, sift, filter, clean and/or fuse data automatically
- Generate synthetic data for algorithm training purposes
- Data labeling at scale
Getting Your Info To DoD
OODA network members have two options for getting word of your companies to the Rapid Response Technology Office. One is to visit the FedBizOps website and respond via that path. Another is to get word to us here at OODA and let us get the word in for you.
The info DoD Needs:
- Company website
- Best contact info for you
- Info on the technology you would like to discuss with the government
- The technology gap (from the above area) this capability addresses
