This is a by-invitation-only call for authors of selected papers from the NATO STO IST-210 Research Symposium (RSY) on AI Security and Assurance for Military Systems that was held in McLean, VA in October 2025. 

We are pleased to invite you to submit an extended manuscript for consideration in the upcoming NATO S&T Journal Special Issue on AI Security and Assurance for Military Systems. 

A Website containing the information in this CFP is at this link: https://sites.google.com/view/aisams/

Submission Guidelines

For formatting the manuscripts, authors should use the MS Word template that was used to prepare the symposium paper. 

Final manuscripts should be around 20 pages, inclusive of  all references.

Manuscripts must represent a significant revision of the corresponding symposium paper in order to qualify for review. While the exact nature of the revision is at the authors' discretion, examples of substantial improvements include (but are not limited to):

• Adding new experimental results, evaluations, or comparison studies

• Incorporating major methodological extensions or theoretical developments

• Conducting deeper analysis, ablation studies, or robustness assessments

• Expanding the discussion of implications, limitations, or future directions

• Integrating additional related work and positioning the contribution more clearly within literature and with relevance to NATO-related objectives and capabilities presented at the NATO IST-210 research symposium 

These examples are provided only as guidance and the precise form and scope of the revision should be determined by the authors based on what best strengthens the contribution.

All submissions must be made via Easychair during the review phase.

Open Access and Publication Release

The NATO S&T Journal is an open-access journal. There will be no publication charges to authors of accepted manuscripts. Papers appearing in the NATO S&T Journal are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC BY-NC) license. Authors will be responsible for clearing the papers for open access (public release) publication with their authorities/ institutions.

List of Topics

• AI trustworthiness, safety and privacy
• Adversarial AI; robust and resilient AI
• AI assurance frameworks, standards, terminology, and metrics
• AI risk and vulnerability assessment, including mitigation
• Security with interoperability for NATO and Allied AI systems
• Risks and security measures for frontier and foundation AI models
• Identifying and countering disinformation and generative AI with malicious intent
• Responsible AI with safety guarantees; ethical and legal considerations for responsible AI
• AI system security certification and compliance
• AI governance, policy and regulatory issues

Editorial Team

• Dr. Prithviraj (Raj) Dasgupta (Lead Guest Editor), Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA

• Dr. Simona Soare, Lancaster University, UK

• Dr. Mohamed Abdelazez, Defence Research and Development Canada

• Dr. Diane Kotras, BCE Consulting, USA

• Dr. Yori Kamphuis, TNO, The Netherlands

Publication

Selected papers will be published in the Fall 2026 issue of NATO S&T Journal, titled 'Special Issue on AI Security and Assurance for Military Systems'.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the lead guest editor: prithviraj.dasgupta.civ@us.navy.mil