DAIS-ITA

The Distributed Analytics and Information Sciences International Technology Alliance (DAIS-ITA) is a research program initiated by the UK Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) (MoD) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), in September 2016.^[1] It is led by IBM Research in the U.S. and IBM Hursley in the UK. DAIS ITA is the second International Technology Alliance started by the two countries, succeeding the previous ten year alliance NIS-ITA, which was of similar nature.

Overview

The complete name of the alliance is United States/United Kingdom International Technology Alliance in Distributed Analytics and Information Sciences. It is a research group tasked with conducting fundamental research in distributed analytics and information science which affects coalition operations.

DAIS ITA is the second such program supported by collaborative arrangement between U.S. and UK governments. The previous program NIS-ITA ran from 2006-2016, and was also led by IBM. However, the technical scope as well as the composition of the two alliances are very different. The focus of DAIS-ITA is on distributed analytics, while the focus of NIS-ITA was on different types of network, or network science. The alliance consists of researchers from ARL and MoD working together with several UK and US based industries and universities to solve fundamental research problems related to distributed analytics.

The DAIS ITA research focuses on two technical areas, (i) Dynamic Secure Coalition Information Infrastructures and (ii) Coalition Distributed Analytics and Situational Understanding.

Members

DAIS-ITA consists of several research laboratories and universities in U.S. and UK. These include the U.S. Army Research Laboratories and the UK Defense Science and Technologies as participating Government research laboratories. The non-government members of the alliance in both countries consisted of both industrial and academic research organizations as listed below:

The set of partner research organizations in the DAIS ITA Alliance.

U.S. Universities

• Pennsylvania State University
• Purdue University
• Stanford University
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Yale University

UK Universities

• Cardiff University
• Imperial College, London
• University College London
• University of Southampton

U.S. Industry

• BBN Technologies
• IBM Research - which is the leader of the alliance in the U.S.

UK Industry

• IBM UK - which is the leader of the alliance in UK
• BAE Systems
• Airbus Group Ltd

Leadership

The alliance is being led by a team consisting of technical leaders from U.S. Army Research Laboratories, UK MoD, IBM Research in the U.S. and IBM UK.

Since the inception of the program, the following people have served in the role of alliance leader listed above:

Both of the technical areas is led by a panel of four scientists, one each from the U.S. Army Research Laboratories, UK MoD, an academic member of the alliance, and an industrial member of the alliance. The following is a table of researchers who are currently acting in the role of the technical area leaders (TAL) for each of the technical areas within the scope of the research program.

References

External links

• US UK ITA Home Page
• Overview of the DAIS ITA Program
• U.S. Army news overview page of ITA solicitation