The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the Canadian Department of National Defence have partnered to collaboratively research, development, test, and evaluate artificial intelligence (AI), cyber technologies, resilient systems, and information domain-related technologies.
The goal is to reduce duplication of effort, further leverage relevant research programs among nations and meet future challenges in an ever-changing geopolitical environment.
“We know we’re stronger together than separately,” DARPA Director Dr. Stefanie Tompkins said. “The trilateral collaboration is a big step toward enhancing our understanding in the outlined R&D (research and development) thrust areas. Working with our international partners on science and technology helps us all leverage each other’s individual strengths in order to develop much greater collective capability.”
DARPA also has the goal of continuing to reduce technological risks, allowing new capabilities to transition into operational use as quickly as possible.
The Cyber Agents for Security Testing and Learning Environments program already is underway. The program trains AI to autonomously defend networks against advanced persistent cyber threats.
Other research and development areas of interest include developing interoperable defensive cyber capabilities, producing tools and techniques that result in more resilient and secure systems, and defining and creating trustworthy AI systems.