The Center of Excellence will address a number of fundamental research questions in the development of Adaptive Autonomous and Secure, Heterogeneous Integrated System of Systems. The Center will focus on research that allows heterogeneous systems for networking, communications, and machine learning to be seamlessly integrated and adaptive to novel mission needs.

The CoE research is organized into three inter-dependent thrusts. The following figure shows the inter-relationships between the thrusts:

Thrust 1: Flexible and semantically guided robust resource management, which focuses on networking heterogeneous devices in the highly challenging tactical/strategic environment with dynamic, noisy, intermittent links, often subject to adversarial disruptions. 

Thrust 2: ML support for networking and networking support for ML, which will develop methods to effectively deploy ML models in the field for both network management and early (preemptive) detection of threats. 

Thrust 3: Layered security for heterogeneous networked systems, which will design layered defensive solutions for heterogeneous systems that are both complementary as well as jointly provide a secure substrate that is stronger than just the sum of the parts. 

The thrust-specific pages contain overviews of each thrust: Thrust 1 | Thrust 2 | Thrust 3

Publications can be found here.