"Next Century Corporation of Laurel, Maryland and Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio, Texas have teamed to develop a comprehensive, threat warning solution for SOF tactical users. This innovative solution integrates body-worn and other portablethreat detection receivers with location and… More

The goal of this SBIR effort has been to extend the relevance of SIGINT information to operators without extensive training in that domain. The Phase I contract produced a working demonstration of an innovative Threat Warning System prototype thatprocessed SIGINT information acquired via a bodyworn… More

The proposed initiative will yield a working prototype of our innovative Weather Risk Analysis and Portrayal (WRAP) system that helps quantify uncertainty in disparate weather forecasts and presents this information to users in highly intuitive ways thatfacilitate at-a-glance analysis and rapid… More

The goal of Next Century's comprehensive Weather Risk Analysis and Portrayal (WRAP) solution (as presented in our Phase I proposal) was to provide an easy-to-use, highly intuitive decision support tool that enables decision makers (ranging from the battlefield planner to the warfighter) to… More

Next Century Corporation and Southwest Research Institute have teamed to design and build the Team Transportable (T2) system proposed herein. Our T2 solution is designed to provide forward-deployed ground forces and commanders with an easy-to-deploy, remote, unmanned signal collection and… More

Next Century Corporation proposes to develop the Integrated Situational Information and Tactical Exploitation (InSITE) system, providing actionable alerts and at-a-glance situational awareness to the warfighter in real time. Our team is augmented by the domain-relevant expertise of General Dynamics… More

Next Century Corporation and the University of Washington's Department of Atmospheric Sciences propose development of the Micro-Meteorological Modeling (M3) system with the goal of rapidly performing high-resolution atmospheric dispersion modeling, ideally down to the microscale level, with a high… More

Next Century proposes to create the Toxic Observation and response Aid (TORA), an innovative tool combining weather, toxicology, dispersion modeling and network awareness, providing the first responder with the ability to report and identify a toxic release, to obtain immediate guidance about what… More

Next Century is proposing to research, design, and build the Command Hierarchical Intelligent Portrayal (CHIP) system, a system that will dramatically increase the complexity and scaling of the neocortical model as applied to the problem of interpreting and displaying battlefield data for commander… More

Our primary objectives for Phase II are: 1) Demonstrate HTM applicability to the analysis of IED data under multiple use cases. We will work with analysts to determine appropriate analytical capabilities where HTMs can provide value and integrate them with their methodology; 2) design and implement… More

Next Century and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) propose to demonstrate a combination of theoretically-guided experimental-design, complex data sets, and embodied cognitive models to study and predict design and data factors that influence human performance in complex visualizations of large… More