The Innovators’ Showcase is one of INSA’s most unique and compelling opportunities for direct engagement with the public sector. It truly is a showcase: allowing our members to demonstrate their new processes, algorithms, and capabilities before the scientists, technologists, and engineers responsible for ensuring that the Intelligence Community’s capabilities provide a decisive advantage. The reviewers include…

Mad Scientist Community,

Thank you for joining us for the Mad Scientist Conference on 21-22 April. All presentations and video will be posted to this APAN site no later than 27 April. Please check back and feel free to reach out for any additional information. 

Please see attached for the updated agenda for today and tomorrow's Mad Scientist event. Please keep in mind that we're on Pacific time here in Tempe, Arizona. Start time is 0900 Pacific (1200 Eastern).

Dear Mad Scientist Community:

Due to technical issues, the TRADOC Website, www.tradoc.army.mil/watch, cannot be counted on to host the live streaming for the Mad Scientist Megacities and Dense Urban Areas conference (21-22 April) as planned.

Instead we will use the Enterprise Media Center (EMC) site located at:  www.emc.army.mil/broadcast

Please join us on 21-22 April!

Dear Mad Scientist Community:

Due to technical issues, the TRADOC Website, www.tradoc.army.mil/watch, cannot be counted on to host the live streaming for the Mad Scientist Megacities and Dense Urban Areas conference (21-22 April) as planned.

Instead we will use the Enterprise Media Center (EMC) site located at: www.emc.army.mil/broadcast

I have updated the event's information paper to reflect the change.

I apologize…

Dear Mad Scientist Community:

Due to technical issues, the TRADOC Website, www.tradoc.army.mil/watch, cannot be counted on to host the live streaming for the Mad Scientist Megacities and Dense Urban Areas conference (21-22 April) as planned.

Instead we will use the Enterprise Media Center (EMC) site located at: www.emc.army.mil/broadcast

I have updated the event's information paper to reflect the change.

I apologize…

Dear Mad Scientist Community:

Please join the TRADOC G2 for an online discussion of the Megacities and

Dense Urban Areas in 2025 and Beyond with Major Thomas Pike on 13 April at

1100 EST. Major Pike will present for about 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A

session.

 

Link: https://connect.apan.org/r3bgfq47484  

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

 

Tom Pike is a Strategic Intelligence Officer in…

Future Trends Watch 1 APR 16

https://www.ted.com/watch/ted-institute/ted-bcg/alison-sander-megatrends-the-art-and-science-of-trend-tracking

About this talk: What’s next? It’s the question we never stop asking, with new answers emerging every day from trends and data that offer tantalizing clues for the discriminating observer. For example: pets now outnumber children in the USA, Europe, and Japan. What product lines may emerge from this shift? Doggy…

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

2016 INSA INNOVATORS’ SHOWCASE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
DUE THURSDAY, APRIL 21
WHERE RESEARCH LEADS THE THIRD OFFSET PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

Is your organization developing technologies that would enhance U.S.
intelligence and national security missions? Put those independent research
and development (IR&D) and other internally funded research efforts before an
audience of leading government scientists, technologists and…

The Future of Securing Global Cities

Defense One: FUTURE of WAR What is the future of war? Its boundaries seem to be meltingaway. The questions of global security touch everything fromdrone strikes to upheaval in the Middle East to the password onyour iPhone. Over the past year, Defense...

Computers will overtake us when they learn to love, says futurist Ray Kurzweil

Archimedes pointed out that with a lever he could move the world.

He most likely would have been surprised to learn that a team of six microrobots, weighing just 3.5 ounces in total, could pull a car weighing 3,900 pounds.

A group of researchers at the Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory at Stanford University has been exploring the limits of friction in the design of tiny robots that have the ability…

lexingtoninstitute.org http://lexingtoninstitute.org/u-s-army-pursuing-rapid-innovation-counter-russian-conventional-threat/
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U.S. Army Pursuing Rapid Innovation To Counter Russian Conventional Threat

March 2, 2016

Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.

Even as the Army’s senior leaders, active and retired, are agonizing yet again over the question…

http://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/core3d

A Proposers Day is currently scheduled for March 22, in the Washington Metropolitan Area, but a webcast will also be available - both require advance registration, and the deadline to register for either is March 18.

Please note that questions about this event should be sent to: NGS2@darpa.mil

For those who submitted a response to DARPA's previous Request for Information on "New Capabilities for Experimental Falsifiability…

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c48fe5514249526475f964380c94d36b&tab=core&_cview=0

Qualitative Analysis Concept in Support of Force 2025 and Beyond (F2025B) Maneuvers

Technical Challenges for Simulation and Training in Megacities