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September Marks National Insider Threat Awareness Month: How ARLIS Celebrates
September is National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM), an annual, month-long campaign spearheaded by the Office of the Undersecretary of War for Intelligence and Security (OUSW(I&S)) and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) to educate government and industry about the risks posed by insider threats and the role of insider threat programs.
Adele Merritt Named Chief Research Officer of UMD’s Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
COLLEGE PARK, Md – Dr. Adele Merritt has been named the new Chief Research Officer of the University of Maryland’s Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), one of 15 designated Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) in the U.S., and the only UARC dedicated to intelligence and national security.
Bridging Brains and Borders: Nick Pandža Shares New Brain and Language Research
What can bilingual brains teach us about how we navigate the noisy world around us?That question brought the work of Nick Pandža, associate research scientist in the Intelligent Human-Machine Systems Division at ARLIS, to Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, where his team was invited to present at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15). The symposium is one of the world’s leading forums for research in bilingualism and multilingualism, bringing together scholars from linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology.
Julie Marble Selected to Board of Human Systems Integration for National Academies Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Julie Marble, Intelligent Human-Machine Systems Division Leader at ARLIS, was recently appointed to the Board of Human Systems Integration (BOHSI) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
New Tools Could Let Anyone “Talk To” Maps and Satellite Images
Imagine being able to ask a computer to “show me the buildings next to the river,” and it instantly highlights them on a satellite map. Picture typing “create a neighborhood with shops, homes, and a park,” and seeing a realistic satellite-style image generated on the spot.
AI Research to Improve How We Find and Use Critical Information
ARLIS, through its INSURE academic consortium, is supporting a research project to develop context-aware multimodal information retrieval systems - a next-generation capability that could transform how intelligence and security professionals access and analyze complex data.