02 / RESEARCH DIRECTORATE
Persistence
with a purpose.
Five programs investigate the same problem at different scales: preserving what matters when the conditions that once supported it disappear.
05 ACTIVE PROGRAMSONE SHARED MANDATE
Cognitive continuity
MNEME
Preserving the identity of intelligent systems across interruption, distribution, and changes of substrate.
Explore programPerceptual integrity
PARALLAX
Distinguishing what a system observes from what its instruments have learned to agree upon.
Explore programAutonomous infrastructure
PALISADE
Infrastructure that preserves its purpose when communications, operators, and familiar conditions are unavailable.
Explore programComputational matter
LATTICE
Physical substrates that sense, compute, and retain constraints without returning every decision to a central processor.
Explore programCounterfactual engineering
VESPER
Executable rehearsals that expose irreversible consequences before an autonomous system receives permission to act.
Explore programSHARED RESEARCH FRAME
A system that remembers.
A world it can answer for.
MNEME defines what an intelligent system must carry forward. PARALLAX determines whether it can trust the account of its surroundings. PALISADE maintains the conditions in which it can continue to act. LATTICE moves computation into the fabric of those conditions. VESPER examines the consequences before action becomes irreversible.
Each program publishes bounded findings. None is permitted to borrow certainty from another. Shared instrumentation is reviewed by the Methods Office; changes to operational authority require independent review.