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The intelligence community is faced with an increasingly difficult challenge: the amount of data far outstrips the number of analysts that exploit this data into actionable information. With the ever-growing number of imaging satellites in orbit the job of an analyst will change from eyes on pixels to analysis of information from imagery thanks to automated image processing like object detection a ...

The need for automated labelling of overhead data is obvious, less obvious is that these unlabelled images provide an opportunity to improve autonomous labelers making them more accurate and more dynamic. Extracting even a small amount of information from the stream of unlabelled samples has the potential to massively impact the quality of machine learners for remotely sensed imagery. The proposer ...

Prixarc proposes to develop and commercialize novel terahertz (THz) focal-plane array (FPA) that utilizes 3D microstructures, smart readout integrated circuits, and allows efficient integration with processors that incorporate machine learning to increase the data collection efficiency. We plan to collaborate with University of Miami (UM) and Kansas State University (KSU) for this project. We prop ...

The multidisciplinary area of GEOINT is changing and becoming more complex. A major driver of innovation in GEOINT collection and processing is artificial intelligence (AI). AI is being leveraged to help accomplish spatial analysis, change detection, and image or video triage tasks where filtering objects of interest from large volumes of data is critical. NGA is confronting the changing GEOINT l ...

With respect to digital imaging sensors and systems, obtaining as many pixels on target is a necessity to classify or identify a target for real-time operations and forensic analysis within the intelligence community. Rather than relying on improved sensors, the approach originally solicited and further refined here utilizes super-resolution image processing techniques to provide more detail in th ...

With the ever-growing number of imaging satellites in orbit the job of an analyst will change from eyes on pixels to analysis of informationfrom imagery thanks to automated image processing like object detection and change detection. Object detection algorithms have advancedto near human performance given that there is sufficient labeled data on which to train; however, obtaining this data is cost ...

Prixarc proposes to develop and commercialize an efficient, fast, and low size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) digitizer and processor system for use with fast photodetectors. High-speed data converters are critical in building a fast and a reliable photon detector in a small form factor. The specific goal is to design an analog to digital converter (ADC) with sampling rate of 10 Giga samples pe ...

The marine microalgae Chrypthecodinium conhii (C. cohnii) contains high levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and DHA synthase enzymes (DSe). Finfish have shown de novo synthesis of DHA when fed a C. cohnii product, KoniSap™, developed by FPN LLC. KoniSap™ is unique to the aqua-feed market as it is produced under low temperature and inert gas to prevent lipid oxidation and avoid enzyme denatura ...

Demand for seaweed products has dramatically increased in the U.S.; however, domestic production from both wild harvests and aquaculture operations only supplies 1% of this demand. To meet demand, expansion of seaweed aquaculture is crucial to protect wild populations from extinction by overharvesting, which impacts entire marine ecosystems. Currently, U.S. kelp aquaculture methods rely on wild ha ...

The Centers for Disease Control estimates Vibrio (parahaemolyticus & vulnificus) causes 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths in the United States every year, most commonly from eating raw or undercooked seafood such as oysters. However, according to the co-chair of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference: “Our current [tracking] system…is inadequate.... More than half of all traceback invest ...