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Articles by Gary Lazzaro
The Sea Services Need Better Personal Data Protection
In the age of digital interconnectedness, an individual service member’s data can become a pivotal factor in operational security. During World War II, the phrase “Loose Lips Might Sink Ships” began appearing. It was a simple request: Keep military secrets out of the civilian domain and out of the hands of adversaries. This early effort at information security contrasts with the complexity of today’s digital landscape.
Sailors Must Do Data Science at Sea
The Navy is drowning in data. The data floodwaters have risen over the past decade with the increase of sensors and systems. Indeed, analysts predicted the Navy would be overwhelmed with data by 2016.1 And now everyone has an opinion on how to cure its data ills. Proceedings has published several essays on data science.
Lake, Broker, Or As a Service? Models for Navy Data Management
Mr. Lumley is the head of U.S. Navy Programs at Palantir Technologies. He previously served as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and as a law clerk to Judge Charles Erdmann, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He holds a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree in economics and Latin from the University of Tennessee.
The Need for Data Science in the Coast Guard
One of my former commanders told me it is impossible to determine geographic concentrations, or hot spots, of search-and-rescue (SAR) data because of its unpredictability. When I was the sector intelligence officer at the Coast Guard Sector, my team worked to debunk this assumption.
The Pentagon Needs to Adopt Data-Brokering Solutions
By Major Julia Weber, U.S. Marine Corps As the services seek to become data-centric organizations, data lakes are popping up across the Department of Defense (DoD). DoD data lakes include the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller)’s (OUSD(C)’s) Advancing Analytics platform (Advana), the Navy’s Deckplate, and the Marine Corps’ proposed Logistics Data Warehouse (LDW).
Drinking From the Fetid Well: Data Poisoning and Machine Learning
By Lieutenant Andrew Galle, U.S. Coast Guard As robotics and artificial intelligence continue to become increasingly capable and autonomous from constant human control and input, the need for human life to occupy the field of battle continuously diminishes. One technology that enables this reality is machine learning, which would allow a device to react to its environment, and the infinite permutations of variables therein, while prosecuting the objectives of its human controllers.
Naval Officers Must Be Data Literate
1. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Data Science for Undergraduates: Opportunities and Options (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2018), 12, 22–31. 2. C. Warren, K. Denley, and E. Atchley, Beginning Statistics, 2d ed. (Mount Pleasant, SC: Hawkes Learning, 2014), 3. 3. J. L. Devore, Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 9th ed. (Boston: Cengage, 2016), 52. 4. J. J. Thomas and K. A. Cook, Illuminating the Path (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley–IEEE Press, 2005), 28. 5.
Proceedings - January 2022 Vol. 148/1/1,427
P CEO Notes CEO Notes January 2022 We will kick off 2022 with a Maritime Security Dialogue featuring Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander, Fifth Fleet, followed by a special event at the Coast Guard Academy! P Now Hear This Waking Up Is Hard to Do By Anna Donnla O’Hagan January 2022 Sleep inertia is of particular concern in military operations, where unanticipated events require personnel to awaken unexpectedly and immediately undertake critical decision-making and actions.
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