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Ranking member James Langevin, D-RI, put forth the idea that \u201cdata is the new oil,\u201d and thus began a weird discussion over all the ways in which data is important to national security, but unlike oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking before the subcommittee were Lisa Porter, deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, and Dana Deasy, chief information officer for the Department of Defense. Central to the conversation over what, exactly, the Pentagon is doing with artificial intelligence were three big themes: making the data useful, making the data verifiable and making the data secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Money for something, algorithms for DoD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key to turning AI from nebulous concept and flashy buzzword into a useful way to process information is funding, and while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/c2-comms\/2018\/10\/09\/the-pentagon-doesnt-know-how-much-it-is-spending-on-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">overall budget for AI<\/a> within the Pentagon is still unclear, there are some very real numbers for funding, of which Dr. Porter was happy to remind the subcommittee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the course of the next five years, DARPA is set to spend a total of $2 billion on AI through a variety of initiatives. These include quick turnaround projects through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2018-07-20a\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial Intelligence Exploration<\/a> program, which wants to get researchers started exploring a concept within 90 days of announcement and have some answer as to whether that AI concept is viable 18 months out from funding. This is broadly part of DARPA\u2019s AI Next Campaign, which is also looking for long-term benefits and concepts for AI that are beyond what commercial companies are looking at for their own purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between the immediate term and the long-term funding sits the work of DIUx, which wants to see if there are tools and techniques already viable in the commercial world that could be adopted, off-the-shelf or with modification, into the operation of the Pentagon. JAIC, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/electronic-warfare\/2018\/11\/27\/can-a-new-dod-center-cut-through-the-electronic-warfare-static\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joint Artificial Intelligence Center<\/a>, can serve to mediate those flows, looking for projects coming online in the near term and trimming redundancy where possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Data, not lore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is especially compelling about machine learning is the ways it reaches useful conclusions while diverging from simple and strict deterministic algorithms. This makes an AI algorithm something of a black box, where it is fed data and then produces a processes result, which is hopefully something valuable downstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnother well-known limitation of current systems is that they cannot explain what they do, making them hard to trust,\u201d said Porter. \u201cIn order to address AI\u2019s trust issue, DARPA\u2019s Explainable AI program aims to create machine learning techniques that produce more explainable models while maintaining a high degree of performance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opacity of AI involves two interrelated risks. The first is that people who need to use the data won\u2019t trust it when it\u2019s working correctly, and the second is that the opacity allows an adversary to mingle with the processing on the inside and produce a potentially dangerous result. This is especially true in the missions where AI interpretation can be life or death, which fits both the Pentagon and some commercial applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople can spoof AI systems pretty easily,\u201d said Porter. \u201cOne notable example is in the self-driving car community, [where] a team in Berkley put tape on stop signs and AI thought a stop sign was a 45 mph speed limit sign. There are countless examples of this now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond failures in funding and errors in processing, the other major threat to the United States&#8217; ability to reliably use AI is losing an edge through the theft of data. To protect AI research from another nation-state\u2019s thieves and saboteurs, Deasy says the JAIC is turning to a novel solution: \u201cWe\u2019re going to apply AI to help us solve this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pointing to some ongoing national and component mission initiatives, the JAIC is working with cyber command to see how to apply AI and pattern recognition to detect intrusions and anomalies in sensitive networks, and quickly assess if there\u2019s been a change from normal behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you think of how hackers normally try to penetrate, they\u2019ll go to a point of least resistance, and once they\u2019re in they\u2019ll go laterally, and then what you\u2019re looking for is exfiltration,\u201d said Deasy. \u201cWe believe AI will be a very good machine use case for how we look at data patterns and signatures across our network to help ensure we don\u2019t have exfiltration occurring to folks like the Chinese.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In testimony before a House subcommittee, leaders from the Pentagon&#8217;s research wing discussed what it will take to maintain an edge in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"8":{"categories":["congress","federal-oversight","home","daily-brief","newsletters","it-cloud-report"],"primary_category":"congress"},"10":{"categories":["home"],"primary_category":""}}},"categories":[8,10,106,29,16,32],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3021],"class_list":["post-9685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c2-comms","category-cyber","category-daily-brief","category-home","category-it-networks","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"LU3QBNAW45GZTF2RYQKUXXA7TI","arc_canonical_url":"\/c2-comms\/2018\/12\/13\/the-pentagon-wants-to-enlist-ai-to-protect-ai\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Pentagon wants to enlist AI to protect AI - C4ISRNet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In testimony before a House subcommittee, leaders from the Pentagon&#039;s research wing discussed what it will take to maintain an edge in artificial intelligence.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2018\/12\/13\/the-pentagon-wants-to-enlist-ai-to-protect-ai\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Pentagon wants to enlist AI to protect AI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In testimony before a House subcommittee, leaders from the Pentagon&#039;s research wing discussed what it will take to maintain an edge in artificial intelligence.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2018\/12\/13\/the-pentagon-wants-to-enlist-ai-to-protect-ai\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"C4ISRNet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-13T01:24:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T17:28:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kelsey D. 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