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Enhanced Modeling and Simulation of Hypersonics
SBC: SPECTRAL SCIENCES INC Topic: NGA203002The conditions encountered by hypersonic vehicles are complex due to the non-linear, strong interaction between the flow field environment and vehicle. Successful modeling requires multi-physics capabilities that can properly take into account high-temperature gas dynamics, which includes excitation of internal energy modes, finite-rate gas chemistry, turbulent flow, and complex plasma physics, ...
SBIR Phase I 2021 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Spatio-Temporal Analysis & Recognition System (STARS)
SBC: Systems & Technology Research LLC Topic: NGA201004New satellite constellations will soon be deployed with locational revisit rates of 40 captures/day resulting in an image acquisition volume that quickly exceeds capacity for manual image analysis. This inspires an automated solution for analyzing spatio-temporal imagery that can augment analyst workflow and enhance geospatial investigation of locations over time. Building on System & Technology R ...
SBIR Phase I 2021 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Orbital Insight Synthetic Data for Computer Vision in Remote Sensing
SBC: Orbital Insight, Inc. Topic: NGA201001As the Intelligence Community’s experts in geospatial analytics, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has a long-standing interest in conducting research and development in analyzing overhead imagery. With the commercialization of space, the need to analyze greater volumes of imagery much more quickly continues to progress. Fortunately, recent advances in computer vision (CV) have m ...
SBIR Phase I 2021 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Learning traffic camera locations using vehicle re-identification
SBC: Arete Associates Topic: NGA201005In its effort to provide necessary intelligence and analysis, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) utilizes extensive traffic camera systems. However, the large amount of data overwhelms both analysts and existing processing methods. In order to provide a better understanding and reduce the search space for common problems such as target tracking, it is necessary to extract the camera ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Vehicle Reidentification-Aided Network Topology Inference (VRANTI)
SBC: Systems & Technology Research LLC Topic: NGA201005Systems & Technology Research (STR) proposes to develop Vehicle Reidentification-Aided Network Topology Inference (VRANTI), a novel system for estimating proximity network graphs of traffic cameras to facilitate intelligence applications such as tracking and monitoring of traffic systems. Network inference will be performed using statistical analyses of features extracted from camera video feeds, ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Bounding generalization risk for Deep Neural Networks
SBC: Euler Scientific Topic: NGA20A001Deep Neural Networks have become ubiquitous in the modern analysis of voluminous datasets with geometric symmetries. In the field of Particle Physics, experiments such as DUNE require the detection of particle signatures interacting within the detector, with analyses of over a billion 3D event images per channel each year; with typical setups containing over 150,000 different channels. In an ...
STTR Phase I 2020 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Automated Camera Orientation Recovery Software
SBC: Physical Optics Corporation Topic: NGA201006To address the NGA’s need to fully automate recovery of camera orientation parameters from ground-level imagery, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop new Automated Camera Orientation Recovery Software (ACORS). It is based on a new, multicue combination of algorithms for finding true horizon lines in images. Specifically, the innovation in locating occluded true horizon lines bel ...
SBIR Phase I 2021 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Hybrid Machine Learning Approaches for Radiation Signature Identification
SBC: RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. Topic: NGA192002To improve the identification and detection of radio-logical materials, we propose a hybrid supervised learning and unsupervised machine learning approach to reduce the false positive rate, increase the accuracy and throughput, and augment the capabilities of the human operators. At the end of the Phase I, we will have a machine learning algorithm that is trained to recognize a variety of nuclear ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Radioactive Anomaly Detection and Identification Algorithm Suite (RADIAS) for Enhanced Radiological Search
SBC: PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. Topic: NGA192002Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop an advanced machine learning (ML) algorithm to detect threat-based anomalies in gamma-ray spectra in real-time. If a network of distributed R/N sensors is employed, the algorithms will also be capable of tracking such anomalies through the network. The Radiation Anomaly Detector (RAD) will be packaged with PSI’s award winning Poisson Clutter Spli ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
High Efficiency Semiconductors for Nuclear Detection
SBC: RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. Topic: NGA192003There is a need for low cost, high performance gamma-ray detectors for national and homeland security applications for detection, identification and localization of special nuclear materials. Common detectors used in this application include scintillators coupled to photomultiplier tubes or silicon photodiodes, and semiconductor detectors like cadmium zinc telluride. Semiconductor detector offer ...
SBIR Phase I 2020 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency