The International Technology Alliance in Distributed Analytics and Information Sciences (DAIS-ITA) was a research program initiated by the UK Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) (MOD) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), in September 2016[1] and remained active for 5 years until September 2021.
In 2021, the DAIS-ITA received the U.S. – UK Science and Technology Stocktake Team Award for enabling effective and assured information integration and exploitation for distributed coalition multi-domain operations in dynamic and contest environments leveraging a deep U.S. – UK collaboration between government, industry and academic partners.
Since approximately 1992, ARL formed a number of partnerships that involved the triad of industry, academia and government.
One of them was the Distributed Analytics and Information Science (DAIS) International Technology Alliance (ITA) which was awarded September 21, 2016.
[3] The stated objective of DAIS was “to enable secure, dynamic, semantically-aware, distributed analytics for deriving situational understanding in coalition operations.” With US/UK coalition operations becoming increasingly more complex, DAIS sought to address burdens placed on people and technologies that were deployed.