Center for Advanced Defense Studies
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The Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS) is a National Security Group utilizing intent-centric paradigms to promote research, innovation and education in the fields of information sciences, cognitive studies, and global security. Founded by Dr. Newton Howard, CADS is a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, non-governmental organization engaging in high-risk / high-payoff projects of global significance. By utilizing experts from the academic, government, military and corporate sectors, the Center’s interdisciplinary teams work to solve current and possible future security and defense problems. The Center works with multiple educational and research centers, international organizations, government bodies and other institutions to promote dialogue between people, organizations and countries. Through the expansion of the CADS Education Program, the Center develops academic programs structured around global security concerns. These programs utilize the Center’s original research and affiliated experts while complementing the efforts of governmental and international organizations.
Focus of Research includes:
• Decision making under conditions of uncertainty
• Cognitive informatics
• Cyber security and information assurance
• Counter-terrorism and global security policy
• Intent-centric paradigms
• Integrated situational awareness
• Policy and security analysis
• International Relations and Global Security Simulations
• Network-based distributed control systems
• Biodefense
• Biometrics
People:
The Center has a steering committee of distinguished former government officials and industry and academic leaders. While CADS currently maintains 43 Fellows and supports 67 doctoral students, the Center is continually seeking to expand its pool of researchers.
The Fellows at CADS are the leaders in their fields of research; for example:
Dr. Kenneth Alibek, M.D., D.Sc, and PhD, is a Distinguished Professor at George Mason University. He also holds the positions of President and Chief Scientist of Advanced Biosystems.
Dr. Vladimir Lefebvre is the originator of Reflexive Theory and Reflexive Control and holds a Ph.D. in mathematical psychology from the University of Moscow. He is the author of several hundred scientific publications, including The Structure of Awareness: Toward a Symbolic Language of Human Reflexion (1977) and The Algebra of Conscience (1982, 2001).
Dr. Jerrold Post, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology and International Affairs and Director of the Political Psychology Program at The George Washington University.
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer of the US Army is a senior operations officer and Military Operations Training Course (MOTC) graduate with more than 23 years of tactical and strategic field experience. Prior to the consolidation of all DoD Human Intelligence resources and operations under DIA in 1995, he was the chief of Army’s controlled HUMINT program – overseeing Army Intelligence and Security Command’s global controlled HUMINT efforts.
Dr. J. Michael Waller, Ph.D, is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of International Communication Professional Experience at the Institute for World Politics (IWP), where he directs graduate programs on public diplomacy and political warfare.
Dr. Richard Weitz is a Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Future Security Strategies.
Partners: CADS draws on its industry-based and education-based partners in order to complete the research and production of the new defense concepts being created at the Center. Some of these partners include :
Industry:
Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc. (ASI) is committed to being the leading provider of intelligent performance assurance software solutions for high-stakes, complex decision environments. Harris, Inc. is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in over 150 countries. Network Chemistry, Inc. is an industry leader in creating higher levels of security and performance in wireless networks, data, and users. Sparta, Inc. is a systems engineering and advanced technology company created in 1979. The company is highly active in space and missile defense, information systems security and military systems.
Education:
Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.); Les Écoles de Saint-Cyr Coetquidan (France); L’Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France); the University of Alberta (Canada); the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies; and the International Relations and Security Network (ISN).
Institutes within CADS:
There are three research and learning institutes within the Center itself: The Higgins Counterterrorism Research Center, which is a non-profit organization, staffed by former U.S. Government antiterrorism/counterterrorism, intelligence and defense experts who are committed to providing antiterrorism training to America’s first responders – such as firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians as well as its military and intelligence officers.
The Institute for Mathematics Complexity and Cognition (MC2), which deals with subjects, related to cognition, complexity, and intentions. The work of this institute has implications for systems engineering and international security.
The Descartes Institute for Mathematical Methods in Behavioral Codification and Global Security, which focuses on behavior models, and codification. This institute develops new approaches for counter-terrorism, based on in-depth analysis.
Current Projects include:
Intent-Centric Warfare: This is a research direction which investigates the future of warfare, extending the doctrine of Network-Centric Warfare Defines and investigates emerging technology challenges for C3I systems:
• Cognitive computing (see DARPA 2004)
• Self-Organizing Computers, Collaborative Cognition, Swarm Intelligence
• Event-Oriented Reasoning, Experience-Oriented Reasoning, Episodic Ontology
• Cognition-oriented simulators of Wars, Augmented Reality Wearable Computing, E-textiles technology (computer, clothing)
• RFID and Biometric Technology
• Lattice Semantic and Natural Language Processing
3-D Cognition:
The project first investigates cognitive models consisting of multiple realities for agents. Secondly it extends Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) models and Real-time Control System (RCS) reference architecture. Addressed are issues and challenges in applications and system design for:
• Counterterrorism
• Intelligence Analysis
• Deterrence
• Automatic software generation
• Grid computing
• Intrusion detection
• Future computer architectures
Outlines conditions for future successful systems designs. Multiple projects are part of this initiative. The initiative is lead by a specialized lab within CADS.
Recent Publications include:
“The Clash of Perceptions” by Dr. Mathieu Guidère from the University of Lyon and Dr. Newton Howard from the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. This work challenges Samuel Huntington’s well-known clash of civilizations paradigm with a proposed clash of perceptions paradigm. The authors believe the new paradigm better reflects the complexity of individual and collective interactions by building on case studies and recent cognitive science and informatics research, thus offering greater insight into the dynamics of international relations.
“Seeking Peace in Our Time: Toward Global Defense Policy Laws” by Dr. Newton Howard from the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. This publication introduces a mathematical approach to maintaining the balance of power and perception among countries.
“From Spirituality to Radicalization: Tableeghi Jamaat and the Potential for Transnational Violence” by Newton Howard and Ammar Qusaibaty from the Center of Advanced Defense Studies. This report was published in the Center's defense journal, Defense Concepts in January 2006. The report discusses the increase in power of a radical Islamic group and its potential to become a world threat.
