DAIS-ITA

The International Technology Alliance in Distributed Analytics and Information Sciences (DAIS-ITA) is a research program initiated by the UK Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) (MoD) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), in September 2016. It is led by IBM Research in the U.S. and IBM Hursley in the UK. DAIS ITA is the second International Technology Alliance started by the two countries, succeeding the previous ten year alliance NIS-ITA, which was of similar nature.

The complete name of the alliance is United States/United Kingdom International Technology Alliance in Distributed Analytics and Information Sciences. It is a research group tasked with conducting fundamental research in distributed analytics and information science which affects coalition operations.

DAIS ITA is the second such program supported by collaborative arrangement between U.S. and UK governments. The previous program NIS-ITA ran from 2006-2016, and was also led by IBM. However, the technical scope as well as the composition of the two alliances are very different. The focus of DAIS-ITA is on distributed analytics, while the focus of NIS-ITA was on different types of network, or network science. The alliance consists of researchers from ARL and MoD working together with several UK and US based industries and universities to solve fundamental research problems related to distributed analytics.

The DAIS ITA research focuses on two technical areas, (i) Dynamic Secure Coalition Information Infrastructures and (ii) Coalition Distributed Analytics and Situational Understanding.

DAIS-ITA consists of several research laboratories and universities in U.S. and UK. These include the U.S. Army Research Laboratories and the UK Defense Science and Technologies as participating Government research laboratories. The non-government members of the alliance in both countries consisted of both industrial and academic research organizations as listed below:

The alliance is being led by a team consisting of technical leaders from U.S. Army Research Laboratories, UK MoD, IBM Research in the U.S. and IBM UK.

Since the inception of the program, the following people have served in the role of alliance leader listed above: