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Terrorist attacks involving the use of proliferated radiological and special nuclear materials pose a potential threat to U.S. citizens and service members. Early detection of such materials and devices made from them is a critical part of the U.S. strategy to prevent these types of attacks. DARPA’s SIGMA program is developing smaller, lower-cost and more sensitive detectors, along with innovati ...

As technological complexity increases, so too does the cost of integrating new systems. Each innovation yields geometrically more interfaces with which to integrate. Unless we develop a better approach, it becomes cost prohibitive to integrate additional technologies and capabilities. Current integration approaches seek to address this complexity through managed commonality and shared infrastructu ...

To address the need of auto-extracting data relevant to significant events and to archive patterns, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) team proposes to continue developing a Scalable Event Extractor for Multi-Level Event Data and Pattern Archiving: SEE. The key innovations of our proposed SEE system are (1) a large class of analytics that extract valuable and important information from raw data, a ...

We propose a novel three-step border monitoring system to detect and describe potential risks for trans-border activities from commercial very high resolution imagery. This system also supports the development of a general level assessment of potential r...

The goal of this project is to understand the impact of challenger strategies on the intent of a target to pursue a gray zone conflict. Understanding the causal impact of a deterrent strategy in one case, and thus its potential efficacy in a future situation, must account for other possible causes that would explain observed deterrent outcomes. We define the intent of the target as the observed be ...

The use of big data analytic tools is becoming necessary to unearth information from diverse datasets to satisfy needs across government agencies and commercial entities. Many operationally mature and commercially available tools already address challenges in extracting knowledge from raw data which ultimately informs decisions. A lingering challenge is that many data archives remain isolated (for ...

Next Century Corporation will develop novel means to acquire data on patterns of exploration of web-based information. For the proposed effort, we will integrate fine-grained logging of activities across different search paths and develop new methods for extracting web content that provides and analyzes the broader context in which such activities take place. In addition, we will develop a robust ...

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Decision making and development of potential courses of action at militarily strategic levels presents challenges due to sociocultural factors, conflicting goals, and an often complex web of relationships among international actors. However, current computational tools may not anticipate and account for deception and recognize when planned actions may appear to contradict a desired message. For th ...

The Phase II Buoy Localization and Uncertainty Estimation (BLUE) program is developing advanced algorithms and software to improve target localization error in air ASW multistatic sonar missions. Significant improvements in target localization come from three distinct technology advancements: better knowledge of sonobuoy motion, more accurate target tracks, and improved fine bearing measurements f ...