The Information Innovation Office (I2O) is one of the seven technical offices within

DARPA The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Ad ...

, an agency of the

U.S. Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national secur ...

that is responsible for the development of advanced technology for national security. I2O was created in 2010 by combining the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) and the Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO). The office focuses on basic and applied research in the areas of

cyber security Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...

data analytics Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data. It also entails applying data patterns toward effective decision-making. It ...

, and human-machine symbiosis.

Organization

The current I2O office director is John Launchbury, who joined DARPA as

program manager Program Manager is the shell of Windows 3.x and Windows NT 3.x operating systems. This shell exposed a task-oriented graphical user interface (GUI), consisting of ''icons'' ( shortcuts for programs) arranged into ''program groups''. It replaced ...

in 2014 and was named director in 2015. Brian Pierce is the deputy director.

Programs

DARPA programs continually start and stop depending on national security needs and research results, and the high-turnover rate of program managers. Some programs within I2O's research areas are:
Assured Autonomy
(AA): Creation of technology for continual assurance of Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems. * Building Resource Adaptive Software Systems (BRASS): Creation of long-lived, survivable software systems that adapt to changing conditions on their own. * Cleanslate design of Resilient, Adaptive, Secure Hosts (CRASH): Development of software techniques that allow a computer system to defend itself from hacks. * Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) * Memex: Software that advances online search capabilities to extend into the

deep web The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard web search-engine programs. This is in contrast to the "surface web", which is accessible to anyone using the Internet. Co ...

, the dark web, and nontraditional or multimedia content. * Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT): A program launched in 2011 to create automated

translation Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transla ...

and

linguistic analysis In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or how it was used in the past) by a speech community. François & Ponsonnet (2013). All acad ...

. *

Explainable Artificial Intelligence Explainable AI (XAI), or Interpretable AI, or Explainable Machine Learning (XML), is artificial intelligence (AI) in which humans can understand the decisions or predictions made by the AI. It contrasts with the "black box" concept in machine lear ...

(XAI): Create

Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

that can explain the decisions it makes.
DARPA wants artificial intelligence to explain conclusions and reasoning to humans
', Next Big Future, 19 August 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016. * Plan X

References

External links

* {{Authority control DARPA offices Military units and formations established in 1958 1958 establishments in Virginia Government agencies established in 1958