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DARPA-BAA-14-42

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I2O sponsors basic and applied research in three thrust areas:
Cyber. As human activity has moved into cyberspace, cyber threats against our information systems have grown in sophistication and number, and protecting and assuring information is a matter of national security. Progress in the cyber security of best-of-breed systems has been significant over the last few years, giving us hope that we are no longer facing an impossible task. Looking to the future, I2O challenges itself with the goal: Win at Cyber. The I2O defensive cyber research and development (R&D) portfolio is focused on high-end cyber threats, including advanced persistent threats (cyber espionage and cyber sabotage) and other sophisticated threats to embedded computing systems, cyber-physical systems, enterprise information systems, and national critical infrastructure. I2O develops technologies that create software that is provably secure, applications that enhance cyberspace situational awareness, and systems for planning military operations in the cyber domain. Exploration of offensive methods is undertaken to inform the defensive cyber R&D and to establish viability of developed techniques with transition partners.

 Analytics. Exponential increases in computation, storage, and connectivity have combined over the past five years to fundamentally alter science, engineering, commerce, and national security. Going under names such as “big data,” “machine learning,” and “analytics,” empirical modeling and data-driven approaches are providing powerful insight and competitive advantage for astute practitioners from biology to sports to finance. Through new analytics, algorithms, and software ecosystems, the modern data-centric paradigm exploits the increasingly dense, detailed measurements produced by networked sensors to optimize products, services, operations, and strategy. I2O is working to keep the Department of Defense (DoD) at the forefront of data-driven design and decision-making with the goal: Understand the World. I2O explores fundamental mathematical and computational issues such as complexity and scalability and develops applications in high-impact areas such as intelligence, software engineering, and command and control. I2O coordinates its R&D with the national security community to ensure timely transition of tools and techniques.

Symbiosis. The world is moving faster than humans can assimilate, understand, and act. At present we design machines to handle well-defined, high-volume or high-speed tasks, freeing humans to focus on complexity. I2O envisions a future in which machines are  more than just tools that execute pre-programmed instructions. Rather, machines will function more as colleagues. Towards this end, I2O sets a goal: Partner with Machines. The symbiosis portfolio develops technologies to enable machines to understand speech and extract information contained in diverse media, to learn, to reason and apply knowledge gained through experience, and to respond intelligently to new and unforeseen events. Application areas in which machines will prove invaluable as partners include: cyberspace operations, where highly-scripted, distributed cyber attacks have a speed, complexity, and scale that overwhelms human cyber defenders; intelligence analysis, to which machines can bring super-human objectivity; and command and control, where workloads, timelines and stress can exhaust human operators.