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July 5, 2024
Serial-Based Defensive Cyberspace Operations

How can a defensive cyber operator effectively identify malicious cyber activity occurring on serial networks?
July 5, 2024
How Do We Make Intelligence Support to Operations More Efficient?

In the context of Agile Combat Employment (ACE), What strategies and modifications can be implemented in the Combat Information Network (CIN) and Mission Planning Team (MPT) workflows to increase efficiency, resilience, agility, and decrease waste in intelligence support operations? Is there a
July 5, 2024
Secure and Accessible Collaboration on Personally Owned Devices

Given the current reliance of Air Force personnel on insecure commercial communication apps (such as GroupMe, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Signal) for operational and tactical coordination, can the Air Force provide a collaboration application to surpass these existing tools in
July 5, 2024
Measuring LLM Compliance with Analytic Tradecraft Standards

How can the compliance of large language models (LLMs) with Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 203's analytic tradecraft standards of objectivity, independence of political consideration, and traceability to underlying sources be verified when LLMs are used for intelligence purposes? Can we
July 5, 2024
Multi-level Security for Mobile Platforms versus Static Ground-Based Systems

With EMSO and IO intertwining with almost every DOD mobile asset, the sharing of data aggregated from systems of different levels of security is becoming more of a requirement for any operation. The ability for data of lower classification to flow from systems of higher classification (i.e.,
July 5, 2024
Implementing ML & AI for Automatic ELINT Identification

What AI-enabled suite of tools could enable the IC to increase the pace and quality of threat-processing and threat warning? What are more robust ways to process data and decrease data-load on operators? From the most recent National Defense Strategy, there is a renewed focus on peer
July 5, 2024
Value of the IAEA in a New Era of Monitoring, Verification, and Nonproliferation

Have the political decisions of the U.S. on JCPOA, and other partner nations' messaging on potential Iranian nuclearization marginalized or otherwise compromised the global value of the IAEA? Can the IAEA reassert itself, independently as a global leader in safeguard development, and
June 12, 2024
Scientific and Technical Implications of DOTMLPF-P Challenges for Conventional-Nuclear Integration

A key element of the current national military priorities is to be prepared for a fight against China and Russia, which are nuclear-capable powers. This pacing threat highlights the importance for the Department of the Air Force (DAF) to have the ability to integrate nuclear and non-nuclear
June 12, 2024
CNI--How to Integrate Conventional and Nuclear Munition on American Bomber and Fighter Aircraft

Current US policy restricts the military from loading conventional and nuclear weapons on the same aircraft. This old cold war practice does not fit into the modern warfare paradigm.
June 12, 2024
Improving Conventional and Nuclear Integration (CNI) in Wargaming

Main Idea: CNI is the ability of the join/combined force to recognize and survive the use of nuclear weapons, reconstitute critical capabilities, and plan and execute integrated multi domain conventional and nuclear combat operations in, around, and through a nuclear environment. This includes

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Serial-Based Defensive Cyberspace Operations

How Do We Make Intelligence Support to Operations More Efficient?

Secure and Accessible Collaboration on Personally Owned Devices

Measuring LLM Compliance with Analytic Tradecraft Standards

Multi-level Security for Mobile Platforms versus Static Ground-Based Systems

Implementing ML & AI for Automatic ELINT Identification

Value of the IAEA in a New Era of Monitoring, Verification, and Nonproliferation

Scientific and Technical Implications of DOTMLPF-P Challenges for Conventional-Nuclear Integration

CNI--How to Integrate Conventional and Nuclear Munition on American Bomber and Fighter Aircraft

Improving Conventional and Nuclear Integration (CNI) in Wargaming