Dear Mad Scientist Community:

Please take a moment to assist Arizona State University Research Enterprise (ASURE) and the Intelligence Center of Excellence (ICoE) identify socio-cultural variables for use in Dense Urban Areas (DUAs). The survey should take you about 10 minutes to complete. URL: https://asu.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_37vgFb6GUkz4F13

Respectfully,

Joel Lawton

Intelligence Analyst

TRADOC G-2,

Ft. Eustis…

Cronicon
OPEN ACCESSEC BACTERIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY RESEARCH
Short Communication
Genome Editing CRISPR-Cas 9 Technology: Therapeutic Potential Over
Ethical Challenges
Akbar S. Khan*

CB Directorate, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, USA
*Corresponding Author: Akbar S Khan, CB Directorate, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-6201, USA.
Citation: Akbar S Khan. “Genome Editing CRISPR-Cas 9 Technology…

The Army Mad Scientist Initiative

Provided by the Army Training and Doctrine Command Tuesday, July 19, 2016

What is it?

Mad Scientist is an Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) initiative that continually explores the future through collaborative partnerships and continuous dialogue with academia, industry and government. Through this initiative, the Army helps shape future land operations in its role as a thought…

New Army writing program asks soldiers to imagine the future of warfare

By Michelle Tan, Army Times, June 29, 2016

 

Calling all fiction writers. The Army wants to publish your work.

The Army’s new Future Warfare Writing Program seeks soldier-written fiction that can be published on the Army Press Online website. Stories are to be about future challenges and problems the Army could face in a complex world, along…

Emerging Science and Technology
Trends: 2016-2045
A Synthesis of Leading Forecasts
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary
of the Army (Research & Technology)

Attached is the 2016 S&T Trends Report, a meta-analysis of 32 other Futures Forecast rolled into an easy to digest document that can serve as a primer or background for Futures studies and discussions.

Strategic trends through 2025 to include: technological revolutions, economic trends, and the nature of warfare.

• Capabilities of the “Enemy After Next”
      -Ongoing Worldwide Technological Revolutions
      -Economic Trends
• Potential Nature of Farther Term Warfare

Mad Scientist Community:

 

Please join us, TRADOC G2, for an online discussion of the Intelligence Preparation for Operational Resilience (IPOR) framework with Douglas Gray

When:  June 29, 2016 at 1100 EST, presentation for 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A session.

Topic: Intelligence Preparation for Operational Resilience (IPOR)

Where: Log on through APAN at: https://connect.apan.org/r3bgfq47484

Doug is an information…

This autonomous, 3D-printed bus starts giving rides in Washington, DC today

• By Tamara Warren
• on June 16, 2016 11:00 am
• Email
• @tamaratam

Facebook is predicting the end of the written word

Cheap Technology Will Challenge
U.S. Tactical Dominance
By T.X. Hammes

Are you an Arthur C. Clark in training? Was the proliferation of the smartphone a “well, duh” moment for you? Then the U.S. Army science and technology community needs your help to envision the role of technology in the Future Operating Environment (FOE).

From 20-25 June we’ll be running our latest futures game, sponsored by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research & Technology). Through this game…

A 21ST CENTURY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INNOVATION STRATEGY FOR AMERICA’S NATIONAL SECURITY

PRODUCT OF THE Committee on Homeland and National Security OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL

Please join the TRADOC G2 for an online discussion of the Megacities and Dense Urban Areas in 2025 and Beyond with Dr. Timur Chabuk and Dr. Rick Grannis on June 15, 2016 at 1100 EST.

Tim and Rick will discuss ways to gain actionable intelligence from social media data, including the challenges that are involved and best practices for overcoming them. They will present these ideas by discussing real world results and case…

Update + comment on water efficiency

http://weburbanist.com/2016/06/05/worlds-biggest-indoor-vertical-farm-near-nyc-to-use-95-less-water/

 

Crunch Network

Artificial intelligence is changing SEO faster than you think

A great opportunity to you all to continue to help the Army think about the future and the capabilities in this co-hosted event between the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) G2 (Intelligence, Georgetown University Center for Security Studies and the Chief of Staff of the Army's Strategic Studies Group!

The Futures Assessment Division (FAD) analyzes long-range alternative future security environments and reports future force implications in order to assist CMC and senior leadership to posture the Marine Corps for future success. The intent of the group is not to be predictive in nature but rather to highlight plausible alternatives to the accepted baseline future and associated thinking. Notes From The Edge is a small…

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

TRADOC G-2 welcomes you to tune in to the speaker series: Mega Cities and Dense Urban Areas on 17 May 2016 beginning at 11:00 EST

 

Our speaker, Tom Keeley is the founder and president of Compsim. His engineering and technical management career has touched inertial guidance and fire control for nuclear submarines and missile systems, digital communication systems (fixed and mobile), computer-aided…

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The behavior of everything in the universe is influenced by one or more factors. We can call them influencing factors. Some influencing factors might be combined (or integrated), to apply collective influence. We could say that human behavior is driven by influencing factors.

Stated slightly differently, we are applying the laws of physics to human behavior. So when we have human experts (expert decision-makers or expert…

Join us for this Mad Scientist Conference!

Featuring a presentation by the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (CSA)

Where: Georgetown University Center for Security Studies, Washington DC 

When: 8-9 August 2016, with a specific focus on the Strategic Security Environment in 2050

We invite you to join us remotely to view the conference on the Enterprise Media Center (EMC) website at: www.emc.army.mil/broadcast

The US Army…