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AQUAINT R&D Program Phase I Kickoff Workshop WELCOME
AQUAINT R&D Program Phase I Kickoff Workshop
WELCOME
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WELCOME
• Phase I Program Participants– Core Technical Program - 16 Projects
- BBN (2) - Carnegie Mellon U. - SAIC/Stanford U.
- U. of Mass. - IBM/Cycorp - SRI
- U. of Albany/Rutgers/Queens - LCC (2) - USC-ISI
- Columbia U./ U. of Colorado - U. of Texas - U. of Calif.-Berkeley/
- Princeton U. - Cycorp/IBM Stanford U.
– Evaluation – NIST– Testbed / System Integration - Mitre– Technical Support – Tarragon Consulting
• AQUAINT Government Panel & Contracting Officers
• Distinguished Quests
• ARDA Technical Staff
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Thank You’s / Questions
• Thank You to ARDA’s SETA Support Staff– Susan Martin– Stacey Skuhr– Dale Freed– Paul Matthews
• Questions / Assistance?– Registration/Workshop Admin: Susan Martin– Technical Support: Paul Matthews, AQUAINT
Program SETA– AQUAINT Program: John Prange – Contracts: Your COTR / Contracting Officer
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Administrative
• Workshop Materials
• Morning & Afternoon Breaks / Restrooms
• Meals
• Workshop Reception at end of Monday’s Session
• Workshop Ends:– 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday for most attendees– Wednesday afternoon session for AQUAINT
Project PI’s and their Government COTR/Contracting Officers
• Follow-on Knowledge Discovery & Dissemination (KD-D) Workshop Starts at 1:30pm on Wednesday
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Who is ARDA?
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Advanced Research & Development Activity (ARDA)
• MEANS:
– A nimble, cross-community organization
– A modest, yet significant budget
– Small, outward-looking staff working as “honest brokers” and “agent provocateurs”
• MISSION:
– Incubate revolutionary R&D within Information Technology for the shared benefit of multiple DoD & Intelligence Community agencies
A joint U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) / IntelligenceCommunity organization launched in Dec 98
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What ARDA Does
We originate and manage R&D programs
– With fundamental impact on future operational needs and strategies of our “customer” agencies
– That demand substantial, long-term venture investment to spur risk-taking
– That progress measurably toward mid-term and final goals
– That take many forms and employ many delivery vehicles
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How ARDA Interacts
• Community organizations– Plans, forecasts, oversight– Customer champions
• Thrust panels / managers– R&D problem statements– Internal peer review
• Industry and academia– Principal funding recipients – External peer review and
staff
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ARDA Programs in FY2002
CommunityParticipation
R&DThrusts
Digital Networking
Greg Puffenbarger
ResourceEnhancement
Program
Penny Lehtola
Quantum Information Science
and PhotonicsDean Collins
Novel Intelligencefrom
Massive Data
Greg Smith
InformationExploitation
John Prange
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Current Info-X R&D Programs
• AQUAINT Advanced QUestion & Answering for INTelligence
• VACE Video Analysis and Content Extraction
• GI2Vis Geospatial Intelligence Information Visualization
Full R&D Programs
consisting of Three
2-Year Phases
ExploratoryR&D Programs consisting of
Programs1-Year
+ Option Year
• LEMUR Statistical Language Modeling for Information Retrieval
• NDHB Non-Linear Dynamics from Human Behavior
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Contact Information
Dr. John Prange, AQUAINT Program Director
• ARDA Web Pages: http://www.ic-arda.org
• Email [email protected] [email protected]
• Phones: 301-688-7092800-276-3747301-688-7410 (Fax)
• Mailing: ARDARoom 12A69 NBP#1
STE 66449800 Savage Road
Fort Meade, MD 20755-6644
