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Adaptive Recognition-Primed Emergency Support (ARES) System

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 		Award ID:
81253 		Program Year/Program:
2007 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
07SB2-0058 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
ALPHATRAC, INC.
8670 Wolff Court, Suite 120 Sheridan Park #8 Westminster, CO 80031
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2007
Title: Adaptive Recognition-Primed Emergency Support (ARES) System
Agency / Branch: DOD / DARPA
Contract: W31P4Q-08-C-0106
Award Amount: $98,973.00
 

Abstract:

Crisis decision-making is difficult and error-prone because it usually involves high time-urgency, physical and emotional stress, chaotic conditions and poor data availability / quality. This SBIR project will investigate, develop and employ a hardware/software system to support key crisis decisions for crisis management and battlefield applications. This system will produce a revolutionary improvement in decision performance for experienced and novice decision-makers. Successful crisis decision-making employs a psychology termed "recognition-primed decision-making," a method that uses event observations to force quick recognition of an analog scenario from a knowledge base. The Adaptive Recognition-primed Emergency Support System (ARES) will support rapid decision-making in operational emergency and battlefield use. The core of ARES will be an extensive relational database of decision scenarios - event / decision pairs tailored to a target decision-maker and decision set. Emulating the recognition-primed decision process, the capability will employ an advanced neural-networking algorithm to "walk" the decision-maker through a limited set of questions to a rapid choice of a scenario. The tool will then adapt the base scenario to actual event conditions, "tuning" the decisions for the specific event. ARES will be demonstrated for CBRNE emergency response, then expanded to battlefield and other crisis decision environments.

Principal Investigator:

C. R. Hodgin
Principal Investigator
3034285670
rhodgin@alphatrac.com

Business Contact:

C. R. Hodgin
President
3034285670
rhodgin@alphatrac.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

ALPHATRAC, INC.
8670 Wolff Courtf, Suite 120 Sheridan Park #8 Westminster, CO 80031

EIN/Tax ID: 841195474
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No