INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY EFFORTS COMPANION TO DARPA STRATEGIC COMPUTING PROGRAM
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February 22, 1984
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The Director of Central Intelligence ~~-
Washington, D. C. 20505
Intelligence Research &
Development Council
22 February 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Central Intelligence
FROM
Executive Secretary, AI Steering Group
SUBJECT Intelligence Community Efforts Companion to
DARPA Strategic Computing Program
1. I understand that you are scheduled to be briefed next week
by Bob Cooper and Bob Kahn on DARPA's Strategic Computing Program.
Phil Eckman, Chairman of our AI Steering Group, asked me to provide
you with some background on our Group's activities which may be
relevant to your forthcoming meeting.
2. The Steering Group and AI Working Groups in the various
agencies are looking hard at identifying appropriate intelligence
applications for AI technology. The DARPA Strategic Computing
Program report falls short of mentioning intelligence applications,
and the Steering Group has called this to their attention. We are
in the process of preparing a response which will identify several
key intelligence applications which can be worked into a companion
program. We will be meeting with DARPA representatives from
Dr. Kahn's office next week to discuss approaches for feeding the
Community's requirements into the DARPA program and mechanisms for
transmitting AI technology back out. Example application areas we
will be discussing with DARPA include:
Intelligence Analyst's Workstation
Expert Advisors for Analysis
Collection Resource Tasking and Management
Natural Language Interfaces to Data Bases and Systems
Image Understanding Aids
Speech Understanding
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SUBJECT: Intelligence Community Efforts Companion to
DARPA Strategic Computing Program
3. More generally, the Steering Group has been meeting monthly
over the last year, discussing issues in AI management and informing
each other about AI programs in member agencies. Several agencies
(CIA, DIA, NSA) have established formal internal AI Working Groups
to study applying AI to their own environment. These working groups
are interconnected through the AI Steering Group. Last December we
sponsored a 3-day AI Symposium (at which you were the keynote
speaker). The Symposium attracted widespread attention and
participation from the Community, academia, and industry. We had to
cut off the attendance at 650. We have established the beginnings
of a Community-wide AI Training Program through the Information
Science Center. Our first two courses, a 1/2 day seminar for Senior
Intelligence Executives and a 3-day course on AI Applications, will
be offered in April. Additional courses leading to a Masters
equivalency in AI are being designed.
4. We would be happy to provide you more detail in any of these
areas. The AI Steering Group and the CIA Applications Working Group
are both preparing reports which will be available in the next
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