information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-Wide

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Description:

The Information Innovation Office (I2O) creates groundbreaking science and develops

transformational capabilities in the informational and computational spheres to surprise

adversaries and maintain enduring advantages for national security. I2O programs address

elements of four key thrust areas:

 Proficient artificial intelligence (AI): seeks to (1) advance the state of the art of AI, (2)

apply state-of-the-art AI to create new capabilities for national security, and (3) develop

techniques to mitigate the threats posed by state-of-the-art AI systems. The predominant

research challenge on the path to proficient AI is defining and creating trustworthy AI

systems, including in the face of attacks by skilled, high-resource adversaries. In these

efforts, I2O will leverage the AI Forward initiative to explore new directions for AI

research that will result in safe, secure, and trustworthy systems for national security

missions. An area of particular interest is accelerating the pace of science and

engineering for national security applications.

 Resilient, adaptable, and secure systems: aims to dramatically enhance the security

and resilience of both new and legacy software, with a focus on practical and scalable

approaches. The portfolio emphasizes formal methods development while leveraging AI

and machine learning. Techniques and tools are provided to both the broad community

(for example, as open-source software), the defense industrial base, and the Department

of Defense (DOD).

 Advantage in cyber operations: leverages and advances state-of-the-art AI and secure

resilient system technologies to produce trustworthy cyber tools and capabilities that

operate beyond the capacity or speed of humans. Efforts in this thrust anticipate

adversary countermeasures to create enduring capabilities.

 Confidence in the information domain: focuses on protecting, detecting attacks on,

and measuring the health of the information domain, broadly construed. This domain

spans the cognitive level of beliefs and attitudes; the knowledge level of scientific

discourse, the financial system, supply chains, etc.; the tracking level, which records the

digital dust we leave behind when interacting with the myriad digital devices required

by modern life; and finally, the transport level, which delivers electronic messages in

many forms and with various gradations of observability.

Awards:

Multiple awards expected.

Letter of Intent:

Please contact the program director

Preliminary Proposal Due Date(s):

Proposal Abstracts: Abstracts may be submitted on a rolling basis until October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM

Full Proposal Submission Deadline:

Proposals may be submitted on a rolling basis until October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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