By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR.
An Army soldier sets upwards a highband antenna inwards Afghanistan.
AOC: With as well as then many troops, tanks, ships, as well as planes transmitting on as well as then many unlike frequencies that they accidentally jam each other hundreds of times a year, the the United States country of war machine lives as well as dies yesteryear the radio frequency spectrum. That’s why the Defense Information Services Agency (DISA) is pulling together information from all 4 armed services to do a unmarried massive database of signals, the Joint Spectrum Data Repository.
The JSDR won’t merely run on American communications officers from mistakenly scrambling each others’ signals, either. By providing a comprehensive baseline of what friendly transmissions await like, the mega-database volition larn inwards easier for Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) as well as Electronic Warfare (EW) troops to hone inwards on enemy transmission.
What’s more, yesteryear edifice on other Pentagon investments — cloud computing to puddle all this data, secure, jam-proof satellite communications to part it, big information analysis as well as ultimately artificial tidings — the Joint Spectrum Data Repository volition survive able to render information “near-real time” to users worldwide, DOD’s Chief Information Officer, Dana Deasy, said here.
The fundamental realization, Deasy told the Association of Old Crows electronic warfare conference: Just every bit the radio spectrum is critical to everything else the Defense Department does, a lot of DoD’s other initiatives direct maintain useful applications to the spectrum, too. “Military applications for the cloud, AI, as well as cyber all depend on the mightiness to access as well as maneuver inside the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS),” he said. Conversely, “I tin tell you lot the DoD plans to leverage cloud, AI, as well as cyber to heighten activities inwards EMS.”
“Consolidating European Monetary System information into a unmarried root for ease of access… has massive potential when combined alongside both milCloud as well as JEDI,” Deasy said, referring to 2 major Pentagon initiatives inwards cloud computing that could render global access to the Joint Spectrum Data Repository. JEDI inwards detail is intended to connect frontline scrap units to the cloud.
Another vital component subdivision of getting information into cockpits as well as trenches, Deasy said, is the DoD’s major investment inwards secure radio communications — essentially, military-strength wifi — that tin resist enemy jamming as well as hacking.
But supporting frontline commanders requires to a greater extent than than getting the information to them: It requires figuring out which information is worth sending inwards the start place. In a the world of wifi as well as cellphones, however, at that spot are as well as then many unlike friendly, enemy, neutral, as well as civilian transmissions all the fourth dimension that the raw information is overwhelming.
Today, sorting out what’s pregnant requires a tremendous sum of human labor, Deasy said, but the novel Joint Artificial Intelligence Center volition assist do AI toolsthat tin accept on much of the information crunching. DoD is belongings a major manufacture 24-hour interval tomorrow for contractors interested inwards the novel center.
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