Welcome

Target Audience

The target audience is national security professionals, researchers, and expert practitioners who are interested in understanding the state of AI research and development, as well as applying and transitioning the latest AI techniques and technologies to solve national problems.

National Security Applications

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); cyber; electronic warfare; counter-influence operations; homeland protection; logistics, supply chain; operational planning; operational support; bio-security; and life sciences.

Key Areas of AI

Deep learning, graph-based learning, data and graph analytics, video analytics, human-machine teaming, edge AI, adversarial and counter AI, influence operations, autonomy, AI for autonomy, generative AI, agentic AI, AI for decision support.

Workshop Objectives

AI workshops, conferences, and publications over the past several years have served to raise awareness of the challenges, responsibilities, opportunities, and concerns in applying AI to national defense. The RAAINS Workshop series extends this conversation by focusing at a deeper technical level on the recent state of the art in key areas of AI, recent advances applied to national security, and future directions in AI that are of specific interest to the DoD and the intelligence community. The RAAINS workshop showcases the significant progress in applying AI to national security problems and provides a glimpse into exciting future directions that promise to have a profound impact on national security.