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Darpa’s New Plans: Crowdsource Intel, Edit DNA By Katie Drummond
February 2, 2010 | 6:02 pm | Categories: DarpaWatch
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The Pentagon’s mad science agency has big plans for next year: crowdsourcing military intelligence, creating an “immune system” for Defense Department networks, and even research that might one day lead to editing a soldier’s DNA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, just released its budget for the upcoming year. And, as you might expect from the Pentagon’s way-out science and technology division, there are some wild new projects on tap. Military analysts are already overwhelmed by too much information. Instead of training more analysts or handing data over to computers, Darpa wants to improve how the military uses its intelligence info by turning it into an open call for contribution. The $13 million dollar project, called “Deep ISR Processing by Crowds,” looks “to harness the unique cognitive and creative abilities of large numbers of people to enhance dramatically the knowledge derived from ISR systems.” Crowdsourcing is already used among businesses and other government agencies, to generate more innovative ideas that draw on as many sources as possible. Darpa wants that innovation to take over individual analysis and decision-making: Novel frameworks will be developed to capture the experience base of users and systems to allow problem partitioning, quantitative confidence assessment, and validation in environments that may be partially compromised by adversaries. When it comes to cybersecurity, Darpa’s taking inspiration from nature, with “Cyber Immune” — a
Editor: Noah Shachtman | E-mail Senior Reporter: Spencer Ackerman | E-mail Reporter: David Axe | E-mail Contributor: Adam Rawnsley Contributor: Katie Drummond | Email Contributor: Nathan Hodge | E-mail Contributor: Sharon Weinberger | E-mail