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PRESAGE

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
87635 		Program Year/Program:
2009 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
N081-084-0664 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
21st Century Technologies Inc.
6011 West Courtyard Drive Bldg 5, Suite 300 Austin, TX -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2009
Title: PRESAGE
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N00014-09-C-0474
Award Amount: $448,286.00
 

Abstract:

PRESAGE is a robust computational tool that employs artificial neural network machine learning technologies to automate the analysis of extremely large sets of unstructured information. The PRESAGE solution takes a broad view of unstructured information analysis, learning correlations between on-the-ground threat risk and trends in sentiment, themes, and other textual features extracted from large amounts of open source information. PRESAGE uses this learned knowledge to detect emerging threats from changing sentiment extracted from newly acquired information. This provides the situational analysis that enables troops to take a proactive stance and conduct operations when, where, and how they will be most effective. In the PRESAGE Phase I effort, 21CT demonstrated the effectiveness of a neural network based approach to threat risk estimation. The results are significant for the future development of PRESAGE technology. We have proven the concept that recurrent neural architectures can be used to estimate information analogous to threat levels from sentiment and theme features extracted from unstructured data. We believe this technology can also be used to estimate threat risk if applied to wide-area OSINT sources. We have identified critical research questions that need to be addressed by future work for successful application of PRESAGE to operational scenarios.

Principal Investigator:

Matthew McClain
Principal Investigator
5123420010
mmcclain@21technologies.com

Business Contact:

Irene Williams
Principal Investigator
5123420010
SBIR_ADMIN@21technologies.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

21ST CENTURY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
4515 Seton Center Parkway Suite 320 Austin, TX 78759

EIN/Tax ID: 541719551
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No