Defense Technology

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will explore how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous systems, blockchain, augmented and virtual reality, 3D printing, 5G, and the Internet of Things (IoT) could be leveraged in support of ensuring national security. The first half of the course will provide a high-level overview of national security priorities, introduce these emerging technologies, and then examine existing examples of national security applications of these technologies. The second half of the course will focus on a series of projects that will explore the opportunities and challenges of new ways of leveraging these emerging technologies across a wide range of national security priorities." The course will be structured with the first half as a survey course starting with a national security priority intro and then introducing new technologies each week with a lecture and some interactive elements. The second half of the class will be spent doing two consecutive small group projects where each group picks a technology and national security priority and we work through the challenges and opportunities using a human-centered design process for how those technologies could be leveraged.