GI Joe Meets the Ubergeeks: Many-to-Many Technologies in the
Defense Department

JC Herz, Joystick Nation Inc.

Gregory Glaros, D.O.D. Office of Force Transformation

Lt. Carmelo Quijano, National Reconnaissance Office

Dave Warner, MindTel

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Cory Doctorow

doctorow@craphound.com

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Glaros: I'm an MD, solving the last millimeter problem.

I do brainwave analysis, using weather-math supercomputers. The
electrophysiology of the brain tells us lots.

No one cared about brainwaves, so we switched to hearts. The idea
was to let MDs make decisions in short time via visualization.

Developed tech to let quads manipulate devices using volitional
facial muscles.

All this stuff was cool, but no one would fund it, so I went to
the military.

The idea is to let people being shot at to control robots and
UAVs under load.

The human nervous system is the world's greatest computational
engine.

We did a disaster-relief scenario that tryied to overcome the
social problems between fueding, stovepiped agencies. We wanted
to increase intelligence on demand, by allowing people to
remotely feel what a present person feels, using off-the-shelf,
USB-based httpds.

We developed visualization to let lots of groups of people to
make sense of their environment.

{Ed's note: he's going very fast and not really delivering a lot
of detail, and I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to take away
from this}

{I can't make any sense of this}

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Quijano

National Recon Office -- we give money to people who do moderate
to high-risk R&D for recon from space.

Do you want my money to do real R&D to help spy on people from
space? Show hands.

We give out $350K for a 9 month R&D grant.

Your proposal can't be given to anyone else, and must have intel
value.

http://dii.westfields.net

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Warner

We're building cheap sats -- we're venture backed.

The sats are made from UAV components, based on TCP/IP

The mission is to share sat info widely

We want to send realtime info to planes

We're building high-energy laser weapons that we plan to bounce
off of blimps with adaptive optics

Military logistics are unstructured. We're trying to build a
neural-network like fluid resposne systems that is complex and
adaptive to get stuff to the right place.

Everyone under 30 gets this, everyone else is too old.

We are moral, legal and unconstrained.

eof