Welcome

About the Workshop

RAAINS is uniquely focused on the latest operationally relevant breakthroughs and emerging directions in AI relevant to the National Security Community, offering a rare opportunity for AI scientists and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to engage with technologists, operators, and mission stakeholders driving the national security AI frontier.

This year emphasizes operational, forward-deployed AI and AI-enabled capabilities that directly support real-world mission needs. The 2025 workshop will be hosted in a semi-hybrid format and feature exciting topics across four days:

Monday 17 November: AI Courses² / Autonomy Expo¹ (concurrent sessions)
Tuesday 18 November: Generative AI and Agentic Systems², followed by an Evening Poster Session and Reception¹
Wednesday 19 November: Robotics and Autonomy²
Thursday 20 November: Trustworthy and Assured AI² / Industry Track¹ (concurrent sessions)

Target Audience

RAAINS is only open to US Citizens and, for some sessions, US Permanent Residents.

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

National Security Applications

Including, but not limited to: Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); cyber; electronic warfare; tactical edge robotics and autonomy; maritime domain awareness; contested space situational awareness; threat detection and mitigation; resilient communications; force protection and survivability; homeland protection; logistics, supply chain; operational planning; operational support; workforce development; bio-security; and life sciences.

Key Areas of AI

Including, but not limited to: Generative AI, agentic systems, autonomous systems, human-machine teaming, edge AI, adversarial and counter AI, responsible AI, multi-modal AI, AI for decision support, graph-based learning, data and graph analytics, video analytics.

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 US national security. 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.