The use of high-powered lasers in air, land, and sea battle spaces has become an invetability- an article by Mark Cantrell
An ASI is scheduled for Tuesday, 24 January to launch APAN 9.0 software.
24 January: 1200-1800 HST24 January: 1700-2300 EDT24 January: 2200 - 25 JAN 0400 GMT
APAN's SharePoint platform, Chat, Maps, Adobe Connect, and Translation capabilities will not…
2017 is on track to becoming APAN's busiest years so far in support of events around the globe and software enhancements which will culminate in APAN's transition of its production systems into a cloud infrastructure environment.
Let us know your…
This report summarizes the main findings and recommendations of reports published by the Defense Science Board for the Secretary of Defense during the last dozen years. The purpose of this effort is to aid the incoming Administration to make a fast start…
http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2035.htm#airline-fleet-doubled
2035-2040
Swarm robotics are reaching the nanometre scale
Swarm robotics is a relatively new field, having emerged in the first decade of the 2000s. It is based on the…
TO ALL APAN CUSTOMERS:
There will be a complete APAN outage from:
05 JANUARY 2300 GMT - 06 JANUARY 0400 GMT
The outage is due to maintenance on the circuits at the production facility. We regret short notice and inconvenience this will cause to your mission…
After a year of building, rebuilding, functional testing, developing, reorganizing and more testing and rebuilding the APAN team successfully rebuilt and installed its SharePoint farm into its production environment on Tuesday…
Attached is the final report from our Cyber 2050 Mad Scientist conference co-hosted with the Army Cyber Institute at West Point.
Sincere thanks to the Team at ACI for their efforts to execute this exceptional event.
Key points from the EXSUM starting…
Entry Guidelines
Deadline: February 15, 2017 – no entry fee Winner announced: 31 March 2017
Writing contest is OPEN TO EVERYONE (18 & older) ** NO DOD OR MILITARY AFFILIATION REQUIRED**
One Overall Winning Submission Receives: Story turned into…
AFRICA ENDEAVOR (AE) is U.S. Africa Command’s (AFRICOM) J6 Capstone engagement and annual 5 day Senior Leader Communications Symposium and integrated Technology Exposition focused on strategic level Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4)…
Last month, we announced the SharePoint rebuild project goals and mentioned that the target date may change based on factors in our production environment. This past week, we have been experiencing intermittent outages in SharePoint and plan to perform…
http://www.dailypress.com/news/military/dp-nws-army-science-fiction-20161128-story.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Early+Bird+Brief+11.30.2016&utm_term=Editorial+-+Military+-+Early+Bird+Brief
https://www.ausa.org/news/1956-ausa-story-inspiration-mad-scientist-contest
A 60-year-old ARMY magazine article is serving as the inspiration for a science fiction writing contest sponsored by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s “Mad Scientist…
All - this is the paper written by Blue Horizons and their network that is driving senior leader discussion at HAF - DJL
Developing Strategic Advantage through C2 of the Global Sensor to Effects Grid
Blue Horizons Program at Air University
1 Sept …
This is the paper I wrote for the OSD Operational Challenges call for papers, also composed to support the C2 ECCT problem framing - DJL
Avoiding a Classic Strategy Blunder in the Third Offset – the Two Types of C2 Challenges
Lt Col Dave…
The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command is pleased to announce its first Mad Scientist Science Fiction Writing Contest and will accept submissions between November 22, 2016 and February 15, 2017.
The topic for this competition is “Warfare in 2030…
APAN utilizes the highest levels of security encryption to protect our customers information in transit. Some of our current APAN customers are using older operating systems and browsers no longer supported by their vendors. Beginning December 2016, APAN…
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Math Minded Mad Scientists that are college undergraduates or high school students- Enter the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) / Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM)! Check out the PDF for how to enter.
Sponsored by: The Institute for Operations…
Attached is the Mission Planning paper. We are trying to highlight several things with KEEL:
1. There is a need to provide cost effective mission planning to environments that have both human AND autonomous machine components
2. Whatever plans are…
Mad Scientist,
Just curious to get some thoughts about last Sunday's 60 Minutes episode that focused on artificial intelligence and Charlie Rose's interview with a robot.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-charlie-rose-interviews-a-robot-sophia…
How is reinvigorating Air Force Squadrons going to help the Air Force. The CSAF says:
If we are to achieve the aspirations laid out in the SMP and AFFOC, I believe the AF must have a solid foundation organizationally. Our own AFIs state that "squadrons…
A core function of the Air University Integration Cell is to incentivize Air University research to tackle airpower and national challenges. To that end, we provide three products: