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We propose a novel three-phased 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 risks, based on medium resolution satellite imagery such as Landsat or MODIS, to detect features or changes in features that may be predictors of ...

The objective of this proposal is to implement a robust real-time Multimodality Voice Authentication system (MVA). At the end of this SBIR (Phase I and II), we expect 1) to develop real-time accurate multimodality voice authentication algorithms, 2) a mo...

IAI proposes to develop a statistical framework and a novel modeling tool to assess the success of deterrence in the Gray Zone. All data collection and model building is grounded in an innovative theoretical understanding of deterrence in Gray Zone confl...

There are various factors (such as propagation delay, time-varying multipath and fading, both natural and man-made noise, Doppler shift, low-bandwidth and energy constraints) that make undersea communications and networking extremely challenging. Innovat...

Traditionally data or document discovery has been essentially two-step process: 1) A query service built upon a strong foundation of information extraction and indexing, and 2) presentation services coupled with analytics services that works on queried s...

Recommender systems have achieved great success in the commercial world, and also hold a strong potential for providing a major advantage to analysts and planners in the military domain. However, in order to realize this potential, a number of key challe...

Warfighters operating in teams often face environments characterized by time pressure, rapidly unfolding events, high information processing demand and severe consequences of error. Managing an efficient work environment and minimizing errors due to the wear and tear, termed as the Allostatic Load, experienced by individuals under these highly stressful conditions necessitate identification of ind ...

The pace of warfare is increasing rapidly with the emergence of numerous asymmetrical threats exhibiting complex interdependencies and shifting alliances. Never has it been more essential to acquire detailed tactical intelligence in time scales in hours ...

Enig Associates, Inc. (ENIG) proposes to accurately assess the design space of munitions containing reactive material structures (RMS) components by comparing their penetration, detonation and combustion effects to conventional weapon systems. Recent advances in energetic materials have produced RMS that enable smaller and more capable warheads. However, warhead developers are reluctant to incorpo ...

IAI proposes to continue understanding social bots behaviors, extract indicators, develop socio-computational models with predictive capabilities to detect bot and botnet (i.e., coordinated groups of bots) activity, measure the impact of bots and their effectiveness, and implement the algorithms and incorporate them in a mature social media analytics software tool. In particular, we will develop i ...