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SigOpt’s platform automatically optimizes internal parameters of computational models and processes, such as high-performance computing simulations, machine learning, deep learning, and algorithmic trading models, to amplify their impact. It integrates directly with existing modeling software and automatically tunes its parameters. Users are able to access a range of optimization techniques that ...

Cerebras is a computer systems company dedicated to accelerating artificial intelligence work. Our flag ship product is the CS-1. The fastest AI computer ever built. The CS-1 is based around our pioneering Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE). In AI compute, big chips process information more quickly reducing the time it takes do work. Reducing the time it takes to do work, allows more ideas to be tested and ...

ABSTRACT:Missile test events provide the ability to evaluate the lethality of weapons systems in real-world conditions. While often immediately obvious whether the main goal of a test has succeeded/failed, it is much harder to analyze and understand the specific causes of success/failure. Current practices require arduous physical analysis of the target and its surroundings after the test is compl ...

Phelps2020 will customize a real-time solution (APPS) that performs accurate EO/IR persistent and automatic detection of threats (people and cars) in the perimeter of secure facilities, from distances beyond $150m. Phelps2020’s solution performs automatic and concurrent mitigation of several environmental degradations, including low light, fog, haze, blur, high dynamic range, backlighting, and l ...

Several nations, including commercial organizations, have operated spacecraft in cislunar space, and more are planned. The DoD desires to understand and monitor these, and to operate spacecraft in cislunar space. Unlike low-Earth and Geosynchronous orbits, there are numerous types of cislunar trajectories, and they are hard to track.  These include complex trajectories that use the gravity of the ...

Several nations including a commercial company have operated spacecraft in cislunar space, and to the Moon, and more are planning to do the same. There are many types of trajectories that these missions use, from direct transfers to complex ones utilizing the gravity of the Sun and Moon. In addition, some missions use high-thrust chemical engines, others low-thrust solar electric, and some propose ...

ABSTRACT: To maintain superiority in the battle domains of space, ground, air and sea, it is natural that the U.S. move toward incorporating autonomous capabilities to enhance/replace the traditional role of humans. Continued advances in processing capability and techniques to employ decision logic and adaptive learning strategies will soon make this vision reality. To deploy any such capability o ...

ABSTRACT:Goals of this Autofoveation Sensor Technology (AFOST) small camera/algorithm effort are to continue to optimize on FPA automated tiling/autofoveation processing merge closed loop processing performance with the aid of near sensor processors. We will provide a path toward larger format sensors for small platforms.The potential for high resolution compact sensors on small platforms along wi ...

The AFOST program proposed offers an advanced UHD Digital hostile fire detection and identification compact camera capability with adaptive windowing and Superresolution. Improvements in the HOT UHD DROIC, focal plane array, and integration with a compact camera package provides dramatic new situational awareness while enabling enhanced hostile fire early warning capabilities for infrared sensors.

ABSTRACT: The hydrocarbon-fueled scramjet is capable of providing hypersonic air-breathing propulsion for high-speed applications. The effective operation of high-speed air-breathing engines (ram- and scram-jets) over a wide range of flow parameters (velocity and altitude) is one of the most technically difficult challenges in the design of hypersonic vehicles. The most promising approach to overc ...