DoD Cyber Crime Conference Call for Papers

Filed under Education & Culture, Featured, STEM by on June 9, 2012 at 7:18 am {no comments}

The 12th Annual DoD Cyber Crime Conference, sponsored by the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), welcomes submission of abstracts for consideration to present a briefing, workshop, or panel discussion. In each of the last four years, we have had more than 220 speakers in 20+ concurrent track sessions. The deadline for abstract submissions is July 6, 2012.

Conferences that bring together government, academia, and industry are increasingly important as cyber criminals band together to access, gain control of, and manipulate the systems that store vital data. The conference provides an opportunity for cyber professionals to network and receive essential training in an open forum that promotes collaboration and innovation.

January’s conference will focus on developing the cyber workforce by setting the standard for degree certifications, validating credentials, and drawing in our talented youth through academic clubs and challenges. 

Topics will focus on the areas of:
Cyber Crime Investigations
Digital Forensics
Cyber Crime Law
The Defense Industrial Base
Information Assurance
System Administration
E-Discovery
Research and Development 

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Multi-Touch Research Moves Warfighter Beyond Mouse and Keyboard

Filed under Social Sciences, Technology by on December 2, 2010 at 2:26 pm {2 comments}
COMET is an ongoing effort to explore the possibilities of leveraging touch-driven software (its user experience and its applications) for the Warfighter. (Photo: CERDEC)

COMET is an ongoing effort to explore the possibilities of leveraging touch-driven software (its user experience and its applications) for the Warfighter. (Photo: CERDEC)

The 2010 Army Science Conference concludes today with sessions ranging from power and energy to immersive technology. One of the more “hands on” technologies being displayed is COMET. Robert Beckinger, from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s communications-electronics center (CERDEC), will join us today to discuss his organization’s work to leverage multitouch technology for the Soldier.

About the Author: Robert Beckinger is a computer scientist with the CERDEC Command & Control Directorate (C2D), where he is the technical lead for the Command and Control Multitouch Enabled Technology (COMET), which falls under the Collaborative Battlespace Reasoning and Awareness (COBRA) ATO.

In this new world of handheld mini computers (iPhone, Android phones, and tablets), all the data you can handle is literally at your fingertips. With this trend in mind, CERDEC, along with various partners in academia, government, and industry, has conducted extensive research over the last four years into the possibilities of leveraging touch-driven software (its user experience and its applications) for the Warfighter.  Our efforts started with a “homegrown” touch-enabled table computer, and now we have a Cooperative Research & Development Agreement with Microsoft. The result is COMET.

The COMET project aims to dive into some of the most promising aspects of touch-enabled computing. Imagine that you are a battalion commander briefing an upcoming operation to your staff. You are all standing around a table in a dusty tent in a hostile land. A worn map is unfurled onto the table and everybody readies their pens, notebooks in hand.

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New DoD Project Developing a “Science of Cyberspace”

Filed under Social Sciences, Technology by on October 28, 2010 at 11:12 am {one comment}
Dr. Carl Hunt is the project manager for a DoD project developing "The Science of Cyberspace". (Courtesy photo)

Dr. Carl Hunt is the project manager for a DoD project developing "The Science of Cyberspace". (Courtesy photo)

Dr. Carl Hunt is the Senior Research Director for Information Operations for Arlington, VA-based Directed Technologies, Inc., and is the Project Manager for SENDS. Dr. Hunt is a retired Army officer with extensive experience in network-based operations and defense.

Change happens at the speed of communication and nothing changes human behavior like open communication. The Internet and development of the World Wide Web has changed the way people communicate, it has changed the way they conduct commerce, it has changed the way they live their lives. Cyberspace has not changed any of the physical laws of the universe, but it has brought a new dimension and, as Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn says, for the Dept. of Defense it has brought a new domain. Now, the challenge is learning to maneuver in this new domain.

DoD’s Director of Defense Research and Engineering’s Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO) has been working with the US Air Force Institute of Technology’s Center for Cyberspace Research (CCR) on a project called, “Science Enhanced Networked Domains and Secure Social Spaces” (SENDS). RRTO and CCR have supported this project since late 2009 and SENDS has recently begun posting progress on its work in a new blog called SENDS & The Science of Cyberspace.

A formal SENDS Pilot Project has been underway since June, 2010, and consists of several primary tasks that are highlighted in the blogs. One of the major tasks deals with a sophisticated modeling and simulation effort called SENDSim, which will serve as the primary experimentation environment for the project. Another significant task explores the feasibility of developing a Center for the Science of Cyberspace that will help refine future studies and experiments in cyberspace science and exploration.

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Register for DARPA’s Industry Summit!

Filed under Uncategorized by on August 20, 2010 at 2:53 pm {5 comments}

DARPA LogoBy Kathleen Harger, Chief Advocate Adaptive Initiatives, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Registration closes soon for business leaders to attend the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) second Industry Summit taking place in Arlington, Virginia, on September 29 and 30.

DARPA, the Defense agency tasked with maintaining technological surprise, invites chief executive-level business leaders to engage in an open and informal dialogue regarding the most pressing national security challenges facing the United States.

DARPA leadership will be in attendance to guide dialogue around senior leadership topics.

DARPA seeks to improve industry interaction and create new business partnerships. Through a roundtable discussion format, DARPA hopes to:

  • Build new collegial relationships at the senior leadership level with both nontraditional and traditional companies of various sizes and various industries – relationships we hope will be lasting and productive
  • Have substantive dialogue on our most difficult national security challenges
  • Frame policy issues from the technical community’s perspective and actively contribute to novel solutions

Registration closes on August 27. The successful January 2010 Industry Summit was filled to capacity. January participants are not permitted to register, but may join the waiting list, which will be activated if any of the 112 planned attendee slots are not filled when registration is closed. Rooms have been blocked at Kimpton’s Hotel Palomar in Arlington, Virginia.

For more information, visit the event website.

Live Webcast 2PM ET: Adding DoD Techipedia to Your Arsenal

Filed under Technology by on January 27, 2010 at 10:27 am {no comments}

DoDTechipedia_logosOn today’s 2PM ET webcast, Mr. R. Paul Ryan, administrator of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), will discuss DoD Techipedia, a scientific and technical wiki designed to increase collaboration among DoD scientists, engineers, program managers, and operational warfighters.

Defense professionals and researchers in science and technology (S&T) have to rely on increasing number of resources for monitoring current trends and advancements in their various fields of knowledge. They need to be aware of how these technologies are being used and repurposed to fill capability gaps. DoD’s S&T wiki, DoDTechipedia, (and its suite of services) is effectively addressing the needs of our most important client – the warfighter. A secondary goal of DoDTechipedia is to provide those in defense and S&T with a means to communicate, collaborate, and market their expertise.

If you have questions, tweet them live or in advance to @ArmedwScience!

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