Center for Advanced Defense Studies

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The Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, non-governmental National Security Group founded by Dr. Newton Howard. CADS utilizes the intent-centric paradigm to promote research, innovation and education in the fields of information sciences, cognitive science, and global security.

The Center works with multiple educational and research centers, international organizations, government bodies and other institutions to promote dialogue between people, organizations and countries. CADS education programs, led by the MS in Professional Studies Program offered with the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), offer academic expertise structured around global security concerns. These programs incorporate the Center’s original research and affiliated experts while complementing the efforts of governmental and international organizations.

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[edit] Research focus

  • 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

[edit] 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. Current fellows include:

  • Dr. Mathieu Guidère is a leading researcher on cognitive linguistics and its applications to defense and security. Dr. Guidère is an associate professor at l'Université Louis Lumière (Lyon II) in Lyon, France and teaches Arabic history, culture and dialects to military personnel at the French military academy École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr.
  • Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer of the United States Army is a senior operations officer and Military Operations Training Course (MOTC) graduate with more than 20 years of tactical and strategic field experience. Prior to the consolidation of all Department of Defense 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.
  • Norman Geddes is the founder and CEO of Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc. (ASI). As Director of Operator Support Systems with Search Technology, Inc., Dr. Geddes previously led the development of intelligent user interface technology as a part of the DARPA Pilot's Associate program.
  • Lester S. Hyman is a Founding Partner and Senior of Counsel of the prominent Washington, D.C. law firm of Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman. He has acted as an advisor to eight U.S. presidential candidates, and has vetted candidates for Vice-President, U.S. Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, Director of the CIA, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

[edit] 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:

[edit] Industry

  • SRA International, a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions—including systems design, development and integration—and outsourcing and managed services to clients in national security, civil government, and health care and public health.
  • Intel Corporation, the world's largest semiconductor company and the leading manufacturer of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processor found in many personal computers.
  • Boeing, the largest manufacturer of both military aircraft and commercial jetliners, with capabilities in rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles,launch vehicles, satellites and advanced information and communication systems.
  • Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in over 150 countries.
  • Network Chemistry, Inc., an industry leader in creating higher levels of security and performance in wireless networks, data, and users.

[edit] Education

[edit] Institutes within CADS

There are multiple research and learning institutes within the Center itself, including:

  • The Descartes Institute, which focuses on behavior models and codification. This institute develops new approaches for counter-terrorism, based on in-depth analysis.

[edit] Current projects

[edit] 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

[edit] Radicalization Watch Project

Main article: Radicalization Watch Project

This project involves hosting an independent weekly broadcast focusing on radical network activities worldwide and maintaining a database of documents generated by extremists and radical organizations.

[edit] Advanced XML Security Lab

AXSL was started as a collaboration between CADS and Sarvega, Inc. (acquired by Intel Corporation in 2006). It investigates threats that effect the deployment of XML web services, aiming to improve government and private sector information sharing initiatives and systems interoperability.

[edit] 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:

Outlines conditions for future successful systems designs. Multiple projects are part of this initiative. The initiative is led by a specialized lab within CADS.

[edit] Recent publications

  • "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 P. 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.

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