Welcome to the E-intern Page
Want to be an Intern for the US Army? Check out the opportunities below.
If your interested one of the positions click on the yellow icon or you can email Dr Kira Hutchinson. Her email address is kira.d.hutchinson.civ@mail.mil
E-Intern support to Mad Scientist: Mad Scientist is a TRADOC G-2 initiative that supports continuous dialogue between the military, international partners, academia, policy institutions, and private sector organizations to help the Army explore the evolution of the Operational Environment (OE) through the year 2050. Mad Scientist seeks to examine the effects of technology and innovation on the future of armed conflict. Mad Scientist events are part of the G-2’s continuous study of the future Operational Environment and the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) Campaign of Learning.
E-Interns for Mad Scientist will be asked to support the Mad Scientist Conference and Continuous Engagement Series. This includes research into trends such as biomedicine, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, robotics, and how these trends may impact the far future operational environment. Students will be asked to provide their unique perspective and work on interdisciplinary teams to write papers, craft products (videos, maps, tools and software), and engage in outreach to support Mad Scientist focus areas. Travel to conferences or to attend meetings at TRADOC locations is an option but not a requirement. Level of effort will be on the order of 4-8 hours per week.
If your interested this position click on the yellow icon or you can email Dr Kira Hutchinson. Her email address is kira.d.hutchinson.civ@mail.mil
E-Intern support to the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) FMSO conducts unclassified research of foreign perspectives of defense and security issues that are understudied or unconsidered but that are important for understanding the environments in which the U.S. military operates. FMSO's work today is aimed at publication in unclassified journals and its research findings are taught in both military and civilian venues in the United States and around the world. FMSO Interns will be tasked to work in teams to assist military specialists and civilian academics to focus on military and security topics derived from unclassified, foreign media.
Project 1: Research Russian information that support the thesis that Russia is concerned over a Chinese incursion on their territories Part of China's Belt Road Initiative is supposed to go through Kazakhstan and Russia then on to Europe. E-Interns are tasked to find specific Russian sources that document these concerns-a few bullets in the form of direct quotes or translations, and include the source, to include, Author, "foreign title," (English translation of title), name of source, date of publication, link will suffice to get started.
Project 2: Uncover Chinese sources that describe how the PLA Rocket Forces are using civil-military integration to build up its "core military capabilities? What companies and universities are contributing to the effort? A list of sources that document this issue will suffice to get started.
Project 3: Translate Chinese documents as assigned using Google Translator, other machine language translation devices.
Level of effort will be on the order of 4-8 hours per week.
E-Intern support to the TRADOC G-2 Exercise Support Directorate: During the hundreds of individual and collective exercises that OE Training Support Center participated in, it became apparent the Publically Available Information (PAI) variable of the Operational Environment was not being replicated; for this reason the OE TSC created the Information Operations Network (ION). ION replicates the complexities of the information variable by providing an immersive environment which emulates social media and digital domains. ION content is housed on closed intranets, unique to each unit exercise and accessed via the web. This allows the training audience the ability to search web material and social media content specifically built to match their scenario. ION facilitates the individual and collective training by providing a series of connected material that is unique to the individual exercise scenario, updates in real-time, and can be manipulated by the Exercise Control Cell. ION provides the ability for all phases of the battle staff, to practice operating in, and placing effects on, their digital domain and operational environment. E-Interns will assist the Exercise Support Directorate efforts to improve ION search functions to mimic current internet. E-Interns will also assist in the development of a PAI scraping tool to include a geospatial function, and mimicking existing tools employed by DoD. Exercise Support Directorate Interns will be tasked to work independently and collectively. Travel to conferences or to attend meetings at TRADOC locations is an option but not a requirement. Level of effort will be on the order of 4-8 hours per week.
Military Assistance Training Academy E-Interns: In February 2017, Army created the Security Force Assistance Brigade and Military Advisor Training Academy (MATA) at Fort Benning. SFABs are the Army’s first permanent units whose core mission is conducting security coordination activities and serving as the framework of a brigade combat team that could rapidly expand if needed to meet future requirements. MATA-properly train and resource SFABs with skills and expertise needed to conduct and advise and assist functions, as well as develop or refine policies and procedures. The Maneuver Center of Excellence oversees MATA. E-Interns supporting MATA will be asked to provide research to enable MATA to understand the underlying dynamics of a region’s history, government, security forces, economy, extremist organizations, and assist MATA to apply that knowledge to enhance execution of an advisory mission. E-Interns will work in teams use the Socio-Cultural Analytic Framework developed by the TRADOC G-2 Global Cultural Knowledge Network as a basis to assess Niger, Nigeria, and Somalia. Level of effort will be on the order of 4-8 hours per week.
Critical Thinking Enterprise (CTE) E-Interns: The Critical Thinking Enterprise constantly reviews and refreshes the TRADOC G-2 understanding of the Operational Environment. CTE train leaders on critical thinking and cultural understanding, and through our engagement with Army University and the E-Intern Initiative we provide outreach to Academia and Industry. CTE E-Interns will be tasked to work in teams to support the Learning In A New Era Initiative (LIANE). LIANE explores and invests in innovative educational technology to increase TRADOC G-2 capacity to provide relevant Operational Environments, and tools to decision-makers. Technologies will greatly impact education in the near future; CTE is exploring areas of investment that are showing the most promise, through outreach and engagement with Industry and Academia and our Army partners. E-Interns will assist the CTE in exploring the following technologies:
Project 1: Website Design-assist the TRADOC G-2 to build state of the art websites for the E-Intern Initiative, LIANE, and our Futures (Strategic Foresight) initiative.
Project 2: Avatars-assist the TRADOC G-2 to create advanced immersive experiences to benefit learning, education, health, human performance and knowledge.
Project 3: Artificial Intelligence-assist the TRADOC G-2 to pursue intelligent cognitive tutors that provide real-time remediation through dialogue for skill mastery, immediate feedback during learning, assessment and review.
Project 4:MOOCs-assist TRADOC G-2 with efforts to design Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for its critical thinking and socio-cultural education programs.
Project 5: Multi-media and Universal Access-assist the TRADOC G-2 to expand the range of access to its OE products by making them more accessible to persons with disabilities, and to the general population. Using free software, explore the utility of making short films, podcasts, electronic books and other multi-media products from our standard OE product format (pdf).
Project 6: Gaming-assist the TRADOC G-2 to explore and design games to advance critical thinking education and cultural awareness capabilities.
CSU- Chicago State University (Cyber Security)
KU Business School (Business Acumen)
W&M (Machine Language Translation)
IC CAE (Intelligence Community Centers Of Academic Excellence)
UTEP - TBD
NATO-TBD