Defense IACs Tech Domain Awareness - 2014 National Innovation Summit

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Information Analysis Centers (IACs)

National Innovation Summit

June 18, 2014

Mr. Christopher Zember Director, DoD Information Analysis Centers



The IACs’ Mission Facilitating Innovation Through Information and Services

The Information Analysis Centers (IACs) are a central DoD innovation resource that leverage data and analysis to diagnose technology threats and opportunities. The IACs are leading a DoD Technology Domain Awareness initiative that provides a range of services to support better defense technology decision-making and speed the flow of innovations to the field.

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The Facts Behind the IACs

ESSENTIAL RESOURCE For over 65 years, the IACs have served as an essential resource to affordably access technical data and analysis in support of current operations.

REALIGNED FOCUS In 2008, the IAC program announced changes to our contract structure, in response to changes in legislation requiring enhanced competition. The ongoing effort to restructure the IACs will be completed by the summer of 2014, aligning to current priorities of the SecDef, including Better Buying Power.

SCOPE OF WORK The IAC program is composed of over 7,000 scientists and engineers in 49 states. Through over 600 technical area tasks (TATs), IACs conduct nearly $2 billion annually in research, development, technical studies and analysis.

RESEARCH DATA AND ANALYSIS Through the IACs, research data is collected, reused to answer recurring challenges, and analyzed to identify long term trends and provide recommendations to the community. More than six million technical documents were viewed or downloaded from IAC websites last year.

“IACs serve as a proven resource for maximizing the value of each dollar the department spends.” – Pentagon spokeswoman

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IACs Are Forward-Deployed Bringing the “Think Tank” to the Battlespace

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Small, Tactical, Multi-Payload Aerostat System (STMPAS): SENSIAC developed two configurations of new aerostat system with hostile fire indication sensors; tested and deployed to OEF in June 2013.

Security Analysis for AFRICOM: SURVIAC is providing technical analysis for current, evolving, and emerging operations, capabilities, and threats in support of AFRICOM’s efforts to defeat the Al-Qaeda terrorist networks in the Horn of Africa.

Software & Systems Cost and Performance Analysis Toolkit (S2CPAT): CSIAC worked with the Australian government to collect data on the costs associated with upgrading military systems to better predict future technology upgrade costs.

SOUTHCOM Vulnerability, Strategic Planning, Research and Analysis for OCO: SURVIAC is addressing SOUTHCOM strategic planning and operational requirements and providing research, data collection, and technical analysis to promote joint capabilities in theater security.

Aide to US/NATO: SURVIAC performed critical analysis to identify evolving terrorist activities, trends, and developments threatening regional security and stability in order to enable the Afghan government to successfully develop and operate a national rail system.

Operation Tomodachi: CBRNIAC and SENSIAC provided support to existing JTF staff with disaster relief efforts.

IACs bring research to the front lines, in order to:

–  Ensure the latest research data is available to tactical operations –  Test / validate research in current operations environment –  Gather data from the field to improve system design / implementation


Exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian: CBRNIAC provided reach back support and advice on available solutions and resources for USFK.



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The Defense Innovation Imperative Addressing the Challenges of a Changing World

Geopolitical Complexity

Emerging Peer Competitors

Declining Budgets

Rapidly Evolving Threats

Innovation Asymmetries

Commercial Efficiencies



Commercial market efficiencies

Innovation asymmetries The democratization of high tech, the Law of Accelerating Returns, and social learning are letting a new generation of Information Age threats operate inside of the conventional defense innovation loop.

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The Innovation Imperative Addressing the Challenges of a Changing World

DOD

Federal Market

Commercial Global

Defense Industrial Base

Federal Industrial Base

Commercial US

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MATERIALS

UAS

ENERGY

SPACE

BIOMEDICAL

CBRNE

ROBOTICS

SENSORS

ARMOR

VEHICLES WEAPONS

DOD

DOD

USG-Networked Design Challenges

Technology/Capability mapping to Defense Opportunities

Framed user-centered needs

Adaptable commercial capabilities

Optimal design solutions

Scale, capacity, and repeatability

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The Defense Innovation Base Building an Extended Innovation Ecosystem

Total Defense Market Total Non-Defense Market

Defense Industrial Base Tech Base

Defense Innovation Base Commercial

Consumer Non-Profit

Academic Domestic

International Private Citizens

Private Capital Multi-Agency

$ $ Public + Private

Financing

DoD Financing

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The Defense Innovation Base Building an Extended Innovation Ecosystem

Total Defense Market Total Non-Defense Market

Defense Industrial Base Tech Base

Defense Innovation Base Commercial

Consumer Non-Profit

Academic Domestic

International Private Citizens

Private Capital Multi-Agency

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Technology Domain Awareness Prospecting Innovations for Defense

“We must now adapt, innovate, and make difficult decisions to ensure that our military remains ready and capable—maintaining its technological edge over all potential adversaries.”

—The Honorable Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense

Technology Domain Awareness (TDA) is the effective understanding of the technology landscape as it relates to current and future defense capability needs.

The DoD IACs TDA initiative is DoD’s focal point for harvesting innovations from the commercial and non-defense marketplace, ensuring the development of better, cheaper, AND faster defense capabilities through technology reuse based on a foundation of:

1)  Technology lessons learned; 2)  Warfighter insights; and 3)  Technology marketplace awareness

42 CFR CHAPTER 79—SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, ORGANIZATION AND PRIORITIES

(b)(2) […] it is recognized as a responsibility of the Federal Government not only to coordinate and unify its own science and technology information systems, but to facilitate the close coupling of institutional scientific research with commercial application of the useful findings of science.

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Technology Domain Awareness Prospecting Innovations for Defense

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Culture Needs

Capital Technology

Creating shared market awareness between defense “consumers” and innovation “producers” in academia and industry.

Channeling innovations derived from outside the traditional defense industrial base.

Lowering barriers to entry for innovation in the defense market.

Incubating a defense innovation base that supports the development of better, cheaper AND faster products.

Aligning technology sources, uses and incentives to create an extended defense innovation ecosystem.

Developing an information-based learning context for rapid innovation.

Realizing economic efficiencies through co-investment.



Data

IACs Enterprise Innovation from Analysis to Implementation


ASD R&E

DTIC DoD IACs

Director Deputy Director AFICA/KD

Offutt AFB/Wright Patterson AFB Steering Committee & Technical Coordinating

Groups Support Team DoD IACs Government

Team Finance Team

CSIAC DSIAC HDIAC

Business Ops

COCOM + Agency Liaisons

SNIM HDTAT DSTAT Government Industry Academia

Prototyping + Experimentation

National Security Technology Accelerator

National Security Technology Accelerator

Technology Domain Awareness Resources

CURRENT

PLANNED

Analysis

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IACs Technical Scope Aligning with SECDEF’s Top Priorities

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Basic Center of Operations Identifying Opportunities for Innovation

Three Basic Centers of Operation (BCO’s)

Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center Defense System Information Analysis Center Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center

Mission

Leverage data collection and analysis to identify defense technology opportunities and challenges

Develop lessons learned for better technology decision making

Use analysis to support the operational employment of technology across a wide range of operational scenarios

Task Size (Max) and Period of Performance

Core Analysis Tasks (CAT’s) up to $500K or $1M (DSIAC) over 12-months

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CSIAC Agent-Based UAV Control Assessment

Customer(s): U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory

Challenges: Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into the National Airspace requires the implementation of new technologies and processes for airspace management.

Solutions: Model and test agent-based techniques for autonomous operation of UAVs. Modify FAA and Air Force developed software to integrate UAV operations in a limited flight test to demonstrate feasibility of model. Feed validation/verification process to move technology forward. Identify technology gaps, such as “sense and avoid” requirements, and candidate solutions. Benefits include greatly expanded domestic use of UAVs for commercial and public safety applications.

National Airspace UAV Integration

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Customer(s): Department of Defense

Challenges: Support of U.S. military operations in the Middle East has resulted in a vast repository of reports, information, data, and hardware associated with the development and demonstration of innovative Counter IED (CIED) technologies. Critical CIED capabilities stand to be lost if they are not preserved in an effective and organized manner.

Solutions: Evaluate, organize, and preserve critical information, data, and hardware associated with DoD CIED technology development. Identify and re-purpose appropriate tools and information for ongoing defense and public safety applications. Benefits include increasing DoD’s return on investment for CIED capabilities and preserving warfighter readiness for future IED contingencies.

defensetech.org

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DSIAC Counter IED Knowledge Preservation

Preserving the CIED Enterprise

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Customer(s): Department of Defense, Department of Energy and other government agencies

Challenges: Lack of connectivity and needs sharing among government agencies inhibits proper leveraging of the commercial innovation base for the solution of common problems.

Solutions: Identify candidate target sets and cross-cutting collaboration opportunities for government agencies and commercial entities to share and address emerging problems in order to accelerate innovation, rapid prototyping, and potential solutions. Benefits include better organization of commercial and public sector resources to quickly and cost effectively address emerging national security capability needs.

defensetech.org

www.iimef.marines.mil

Accelerated Capability Development

DSIAC Rapid Reaction Accelerator

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HDIAC USMC Chemical Biological Incident Response Force

Customer(s): USMC CBIRF

Problem: Current organizational structure does not allow the USMC CBIRF to optimally respond to its technical CBRN and WMD response missions.

Solution: Conduct analysis of the existing organization structure and technical capabilities to determine opportunities for CBIRF to better leverage emerging commercially-derived product and process innovations. Search the technology domain for CBRN and WMD defense equipment that will enable the CBIRF to perform its technical mission. Benefits include more rapid, cost effective equipping of CBRIF personnel in response to rapidly changing threats.

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Customer(s): U.S. Army, 82nd Civilian Affairs Battalion

Problem:

The U.S. Army deploys troops to conflict ridden countries for humanitarian, peace and stabilization missions such as South Sudan. The troops need to understand the country’s medical capabilities and infrastructure in order to develop and deliver the needed equipment and services.

Solution: Developed medical capabilities study that included detailed analyses and summary of capabilities, list of diseases, medical access, infrastructure, and dependence on NGOs. Benefits include providing situational context enabling the U.S. Army to identify, develop, and deploy commercially-derived medical equipment and related services required to stabilize local health conditions.

HDIAC South Sudan Medical and Infrastructure Assessment

South Sudan Medical Relief

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Technical Area Tasks Developing Innovations for Defense Applications

Three Technical Area Tasks (TAT’s)

Software Networks Information Modeling and Simulation (SNIM) Defense Systems Technical Area Tasks (DSTAT) Homeland Defense and Security Technical Area Tasks (HDTAT)

Mission

Support rapid development and experimentation of targeted defense technology solutions across a wide range of potential mission applications

Provide mission support for the employment of product and process innovations across the DoD enterprise

Task Size (Max) and Period of Performance

Technical Area Tasks (TAT’s) up to $900M (HDTAT), $2B (SNIM), or $3B DSTAT over one base year with up four option years

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Customer(s): U.S. Army TARDEC

Problem: Military ground vehicle weight has skyrocketed as vehicles are increasingly armored to deal with threats such as Improvised Explosive Devices. Vehicles become too heavy to be air transportable, increase JP8 fuel logistics demands, and are more unstable in motion.

Solution: To improve occupant survivability, adapted motorsports design lessons to military ground vehicles. Modern racecars allow drivers to survive horrific crashes, while the cars remain light weight. Lessons implemented include occupant impulse loading analysis, controlled deformable seat mounts, and shock transmission analysis. Benefits include lives saved, weight reduction and better fuel consumption.

Mitigating Blast Effects Vehicle Occupant Protection from IED Blasts

Vehicle hull impulse loading from an IED explosion

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Customer(s): U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force U.S. Army RDECOM-CERDEC

Challenges: Fuel resupply operations impose a heavy economic, logistics and force protection burden. Tactical operations require enhanced power generation, distribution, management and storage to mitigate these burdens.

Solutions: Evaluated and validated commercially-derived hybrid power solutions. Developed and delivered innovative commercially-derived solutions such as thin, flexible, high efficiency solar technology and various light, mobile, soldier-worn power modules. Benefits at one installation site include 60% reduction in fuel consumption, resulting in four fewer helicopter resupply missions per week.

Expeditionary Power Power for Tactical Edge Operations

Tactical Hybrid Power

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Customer(s): U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force (REF)

Problem: The U.S. military is striving to better understand how blasts impact the human body. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has become a greater concern and there is a lack of clear understanding of the impact from blast-induced injuries.

Solution: Developed Integrated Blast Effect Sensor Suite (IBESS) from commercially derived sensors and data acquisition technologies to provide an integrated capability that measures blast exposure at both the vehicle and soldier level and records data to better understand blast injuries. Benefits include correlating soldiers’ blast exposure with their medical records to develop and deliver improved TBI treatment.

Blast Effects Sensors to Better Understand Traumatic Brain Injuries

IBESS System Architecture

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Customer(s): U.S. Air Force

Problem: Missile warning systems installed on US military aircraft utilize algorithms that are not optimized for current operational theaters.

Solution: Leveraged multiple objective evolutionary algorithms from academia, which mimic the selection, mating, and mutation behaviors of plant and animal evolution, to increase the probability of detection and reduce the false alarm rate of the system. These methods do not functionally change the software but optimize existing algorithm settings to find the best performance. Resulted in 60% improvement in probability of detection and 80% improvement in false alarm rate at extremely low cost.

Missile Warning Algorithm Optimization

Sensor Software Optimization Optimization of Missile Warning Algorithms

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National Security Technology Accelerator Synchronizing Commercial Tech with Defense Needs

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IACs will issue Other Transaction Authority (OTA) vehicles to build a central defense innovation resource targeting “non-traditional” industry and academia.

OTAs will address four core product areas aligned with 17 DoD S&T priorities.

①  Defense Systems ②  Homeland Defense and Security ③  Energy ④  Cyber and Information Systems

The National Security Technology Accelerator will link capabilities across the four OTAs. The IACs and TechConnect will engage industry in the coming weeks to provide additional information on working with the NSTA.

The National Security Technology Accelerator is the “business end” of TDA. It provides a range of services and funding opportunities to speed the flow of external innovations to defense.

①  Secure facilities and clearance support ②  Facilitated end-user engagement ③  Technology prospecting + marketing ④  Collaboration and co-development opps ⑤  Funding opportunities



IACs Outreach Aligning Sources and Uses of Innovation

Continuous monitoring of the DoD landscape for sources and uses of technology.

Embedded resources at the Combatant Commands to rapidly identify emerging defense needs.

Technology Domain Awareness: facilitated online and offline DoD-industry engagement to support rapid technology development (reuse) and insertion

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Contract Opportunities

The three Basic Centers of Operation (BCO) contracts (up to $1M per task) are single award contracts corresponding to each IAC: CSIAC, DSIAC, HDIAC

The three Technical Area Tasks (TAT) contracts are multiple award contracts (up to $3B total contract value) corresponding to the each of the following mission areas:

Software Networks Information Modeling and Simulation (SNIM) Defense Systems (DSTAT) Homeland Defense and Security (HDTAT)

The National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTA) includes four pending OTA vehicles that enable flexible contracting directly with commercial industry, academia, and other non-traditional businesses.

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Working with the IACs

All BCO and TAT prime contractors as well as the NSTA seek opportunities to partner with innovative public and private entities.

Funded opportunities cover a broad spectrum of topics and generally correspond to the technical areas supported by the IACs (slide 16).

Funded opportunities support technical analyses or applied R&D with a particular focus on technology reuse (i.e. modification or application of prior art with respect to emerging defense needs).

The IACs and TechConnect will engage industry in the coming weeks to provide additional information on working with the NSTA.

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Visit us at http://iac.dtic.mil

IAC Office: 703-767-9120

Mr. Christopher Zember Director, DoD Information Analysis Centers

[email protected]

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