SOFWERX — an innovation hub targeted on fixing U.S. Particular Operations Command’s hardest issues — is organizing an “innovation foundry” occasion to brainstorm the instruments commandos will want sooner or later to conduct missions in environments the place sensors are all over the place.
The confab, named IF11, will deliver collectively U.S. and worldwide Particular Operations Forces (SOF), authorities officers, business, academia and futurists to suppose by situations that the world’s most elite warfighters may face because the web of issues proliferates.
“The objective of the occasion is to develop ideas and approaches for the framework, applied sciences, infrastructure, and capabilities required to successfully conduct SOF operations in a world the place omnipresent sensors monitor individuals, organizations, automobiles, and methods all through their lives, at dwelling and all over the world in each the bodily and digital realms,” in line with a particular discover posted on SAM.gov.
Areas of curiosity embody sensor design and growth; radio frequency (RF) tech; low likelihood of intercept/low likelihood of detection (LPI/LPD) options; information evaluation and visualization; communications; networking; autonomous methods, robotics, synthetic intelligence and machine studying; and situational consciousness instruments.
The gathering, held in collaboration with Particular Operations Command’s science and know-how directorate, will embody personnel from SOCOM’s Subsequent-Era Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and Tactically Related Situational Consciousness (NGISR/SA) functionality focus space, worldwide S&T liaisons, and Joint Employees Intelligence (J2).
“To floor the dialogue, IF11 individuals will use a fictional mission situation that displays the longer term working atmosphere with omnipresent sensor networks which can be a part of the civilian infrastructure. This situation will even take into account the potential for added sensor networks emplaced by navy and intelligence organizations who could also be pleasant, impartial, or adversaries. Members will emphasize the alternatives and challenges associated to those sensor networks and their resultant data merchandise, reflecting the advanced interplays of social, technological, political, and cultural components as they could play out within the 2035 timeframe,” in line with the particular discover.
SOFWERX and SOCOM wish to discover how the command and its worldwide companions can transition from counting on conventional ISR platforms and sensors to “future state-of-the-art strategies to know and conduct operations on this future atmosphere, contemplating each offensive and defensive views.”
In addition they wish to establish methods to higher accumulate, analyze, and disseminate information, and use that data to struggle in contested or operationally constrained environments.
These all in favour of attending the occasion should reply to the particular discover by Aug. 15. The confab will probably be held Sept. 27-29 on the SOFWERX facility in Tampa, Florida, close to SOCOM’s headquarters.
The IF11 initiative may finally result in business-to-business analysis and growth agreements; different transaction agreements (OTAs) for analysis and prototype initiatives; procurement for experimental functions; cooperate R&D agreements; prizes for superior know-how achievements; or Federal Acquisition Regulation-based procurement contracts, in line with the particular discover.
