Daniel Ish

This report presents an examination of how cyber-related risks compare with other risks to defense-industrial supply chains, including how attackers might use supply chains to wage attacks, such as through malicious code, and how supply chains might, themselves, be targets of attack, such as through disruption. It also explores the implications of the differences in risks for directions in risk assessment and mitigation and for research.

Researchers present a Future Logistics Concept Assessment Framework, which is a disciplined, systematic way to assess proposed future logistics concepts to meet the requirements of the National Defense Strategy. The idea is to reveal the most-promising concepts and prune the least promising before significant resources are invested. The goal is not to predict the future, but to show how a concept would fare across various potential futures.

The U. S. military and intelligence community are interested in developing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) systems to support intelligence analysis. The authors develop methods for assessing the impact AI systems are likely to have on intelligence missions that they support.