This paper presents a vision of future warfare by extrapolating technological trends and uniting them under an operational concept.
Mad Scientist Initiative: Visualizing Multi-Domain Battle 2030-2050
The U.S. Army is interested in your views on multi-domain battle, an emerging concept between the Army and Marines in concert with Joint Forces. The intent is to aid in maintaining American military dominance in the five domains - air, sea, land, cyberspace, and space - from 2030 through 2050.
The Mad Scientist Initiative enables a continuous dialogue between the Army, academia, policy institutions, and industry. The initiative uses crowd sourcing techniques, an online speaker series, and conferences co-hosted with the Nation’s premier academic institutions to better visualize the future.
Conference Information
The Georgetown event will focus on future multi-domain battle waged with near peer competitors and non-state actors. We will visualize to 2050 and look back to explore:
Call for Papers
Topics of Interest:
Submitted papers must be unclassified, unpublished, and cleared by your public affairs office and operations security managers (USG& as applicable). There is a 5000 word count or less and 12 point font requirement.
Selected papers will be published in a military or academic journal and the top two authors will be invited to attend and speak at the conference.
Send submissions to Allison Winer Allison.d.winer.civ@mail.mil
Mad Scientist Initiative: Visualizing Multi-Domain Battle 2030-2050
Understanding and engaging in the human domain is essential if you are trying to change, inform or shape human behavior.
Continue on for more information. The topic is "warfare in 2030-2050". Submission deadline is 15 February.
Mad Scientist # 21: This is a first sketch of an initiative that will help to make sure we keep on being those precious few nanoseconds ahead of our opponents.
Mad Scientist # 20: The demand for cybersecurity professionals is exceeding the number available, and some estimate that more than 200,000 positions are currently unfilled.
Mad Scientist # 19: We are losing the cyberwar because cyber defenses apply the wrong philosophy to the wrong operating environment.
Watch Live - Mad Scientist "The 2050 Cyber Army" Conference
Mad Scientist is the vehicle for visualizing the Army’s Cyber Force in 2050 and is partnering with the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) at Unites States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, NY. For the DoD Missions in cyberspace to be successful, the Army must have cyberspace operational forces, capabilities, facilities, and, partnerships that it can seamlessly and effectively utilize in support of regional, global, Joint, and Army operations.
Mad Scientist is a Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) G-2 (Intelligence) initiative that enables continuous dialogue between Joint military, international partners, academia, policy institutions, and private sector organizations to help the Army explore the evolution of the Operational Environment (OE) through the year 2050. Mad Scientist also seeks to examine the effects of all aspects of technology on the far-future of armed conflict.
The Army Cyberspace Strategy for Unified Land Operations 2025 defines three primary missions for the Department of Defense in the cyberspace domain:
1. Defend DoD networks, systems, and information.
2. Defend U.S. and its interests against cyber-attacks of significant consequence.
3. Provide integrated cyber capabilities to support military operations, and contingency plans.
For the DoD Missions in cyberspace to be successful, the Army must have cyberspace operational forces, capabilities, facilities, and, partnerships that it can seamlessly and effectively utilize in support of regional, global, Army, and Joint operations.
To support the primary missions above, this event will address the following three major objectives:
1. What does the cyber environment look like in 2040-2050: How will cyber influence the environment and the population? What will connecting look like/what will they connect to? What are the drivers influencing this or not?
2. How do we build an Army Cyber Force that can dominate the cyber domain in the context of the multi-domain battle concept to gain a position of relative advantage?
3. How can we build shared goals and expectations as well as develop an understanding of roles and responsibilities in order to build and maintain partnerships with U.S. and international academia, industry, defense departments/ministries and other agencies to enhance cyberspace operations? What new ideas should we be considering?
This event will be streamed live from 13-14 September 2016. The live stream will start at 0900 EST each day. Remote attendees will also be able to participate in the discussions via an online chat room and will be provided an opportunity to provide questions that will be proposed to conference speakers. Please go to the TRADOC Watch Website to view: http://www.tradoc.army.mil/watch/
Please join the All Partners Access Network (APAN) to receive updates on the conference, to include list of speakers, agenda, and related information at: https://community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/mad-scientist/
Mad Scientist # 18: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the need for strategic broadening and policy education for mid-career Cyberspace leaders.
Mad Scientist # 17: The Army is allocating proportional resources to the cyber domain as it is to the success or failure of key weapon systems.
