The Data and Decision Sciences research and analysis portfolio aims to research, develop, test, evaluate, analyze and assess innovative, assured, intelligent, human-aware, data-centric and decision-driven capabilities for cyberspace operations with greater reliability, performance and scalability in complex, contested, congested and continually evolving battlefield environments. We seek to create holistic and integrated solutions leveraging novel approaches for data engineering, fusion and processing, data science and advanced analytics, and decision modeling for data-driven decision making.
Our goal is to develop and apply novel computational, mathematical, statistical and cognitive methods, algorithms, software and decision-support tools to analyze large and heterogeneous collections of data to generate actionable insights that enable information advantage and decision dominance. Our research explores new ways of conceiving of and executing Army, other Services, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Nation data and decision science capabilities with greater reliability, performance, and scalability. As such, the research and analysis portfolio comprises the following six thrust areas:
- Battlefield, data-efficient sense-making to deliver decision speed
- Integrated human-centered computing with machine intelligence
- Artificial intelligence for autonomous cyber defense operations
- Secure, assured, robust, intelligent, and evolving C5ISR systems
- Information advantage via cognitive and societal computing
- Data security and emerging technologies for alternative computing