"There are many things I'd like to tell the American public about what engineers are doing for the Department of Defense," she said. But all systems used by service members in defending the nation, to include fighter jets, stealth aircraft, the global positioning system, combat vehicles, cloud computing, autonomous vehicles, and the satellites that will move into cislunar space, are designed by engineers, with the hope of supporting those service people as well as the world. When most Americans think of the nation's defense, they think of soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and now defenders. DARPA provided an avenue for 'high risk, high reward' technology advancement, accepting 'failure as an option.' This is an incredibly empowering environment to push technology advancement beyond what is currently considered possible."
"DARPA, DOD, and Service partners funded many of those ideas to program completion. "I had the opportunity to propose several ideas I was passionate about at DARPA," she said. "That's what we're looking at in space if we support infrastructure near the moon, or operate a satellite beyond the moon, or even in geosynchronous orbit, what is the best way to develop models on the ground that can enable edge compute applications far away and disconnected from the rest of the world? What are those applications, and can they be updated? How can multiple satellite work together?" "In remote areas, a small device can be enabled to perform work required with minimal reach back to big compute," she said. Instead, computing at the edge means satellites and service members will need to take that kind of computing power along with them. "In space, like Special Forces deployed to a place without connectivity, there isn't necessarily reach-back or timely reach-back to computing resources normally available," she said.
At-the-edge computing, she said, is how those who are in space - and those in the field, far from reliable connectivity - will have access to the powerful computing they will need when communications are hampered by remoteness and distance-related delays.
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