{"592563":{"#nid":"592563","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Anmol Soni Helps Brief Military On Disruptive Technology For National Security","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt the beginning of May, a group of Ph.D. students from across Georgia Tech, all part of the\u0026nbsp;Sam Nunn Security Program\u0026nbsp;(SNSP), travelled to Tampa, Florida to brief U.S.\u0026nbsp;Special Operations Command\u0026nbsp;(SOCOM) senior leadership on disruptive and game-changing technologies for national defense. One of these students was Anmol Soni, who is a joint doctoral student in the School of Public Policy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Fall 2016, as part of their year-long SNSP Fellowship, the students self-organized and selected the topic for their year-long project.\u0026nbsp;A team of eight advanced doctoral level researchers from the schols of Aerospace Engineering, Public Policy, Electrical and\u0026nbsp;Computer Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nuclear and\u0026nbsp;Radiological Engineering, Public Policy, and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs worked on this project under direction of the Margaret E. Kosal, SNSP director\u0026nbsp;and associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. During\u0026nbsp;the academic year, the team consulted with mentors from USSOCOM\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;Joint Special Operations University, Nunn School Distinguished Professors General Phil Breedlove, USAF (retd) and Admiral James \u0026ldquo;Sandy\u0026rdquo; Winnefeld, USN (retd), and others on their project titled \u0026ldquo;Development, Use, and Proliferation of Disruptive and Game-Changing Technologies.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe students explored emerging technologies ranging from the future of non-lethal weapons;\u0026nbsp;the importance of tacit knowledge in additive manufacturing and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation;\u0026nbsp;meta-materials for adaptive camouflage;\u0026nbsp;machine learning,\u0026nbsp;artificial intelligence (AI), and counter-WMD efforts, disruptive energy technologies and programmatics implementation; human performance modification; and the Internet of Things (IoT).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the project, the team created two scenarios:\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Feral City\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;WMD Trafficking in the Caribbean.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to helping orient and understand the complex national and international security drivers, the class research also served to illustrate the integrated nature of the individual projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBridging across cutting-edge science and technology with national security policy \u0026ndash; that\u0026rsquo;s what we do!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2017\/5\/georgia-tech-students-brief-military-disruptive-technology-national-security\/591902\u0022\u003ESam Nunn Security Program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Public Policy doctorate student Anmol Soni recently assisted in a prominent presentation on national security."}],"uid":"34516","created_gmt":"2017-06-09 17:47:54","changed_gmt":"2017-06-13 20:28:35","author":"SLawrence42","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-06-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"592564":{"id":"592564","type":"image","title":"Anmol Soni in Tampa","body":null,"created":"1497030574","gmt_created":"2017-06-09 17:49:34","changed":"1497385669","gmt_changed":"2017-06-13 20:27:49","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225838","name":"591901.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/591901.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/591901.png","mime":"image\/png","size":363356,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/591901.png?itok=tw0ohwdn"}}},"media_ids":["592564"],"groups":[{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}