•December 2007: DARPA awards IAI a new Phase I contract entitled “Frameworks for Semantic Integration of Intelligent Sensor Processing Systems.”
•December 2007: NASA awards IAI a new contract entitled “A Novel Non-Intrusive Multi-Modal System for Real-Time Operator State Assessment.”
•December 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “A Data-Mining Integrated Game Theoretic Data-Fusion Approach for Persistent Dismount Surveillance in Urban Environment.”
•December 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “Orthogonal Spectroscopic Technique Using Femtosecond Laser-Induced-Breakdown and Laser-Induced-Fluorescence for Standoff Explosive Detection.”
•December 2007: NASA Langley awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract entitled “Decision Support Tool and Simulation Testbed for Airborne Spacing and Merging in Super Dense Operations.”
•December 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “An Integrated Denial of Service (DS) Mitigation Scheme for Tactical Networks.”
•November 2007: OSD/Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “Hierarchical Management System for Tactical Power Grids.”
•November 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “A Swarm Intelligence Based Approach to Secure, Scalable and Robust Design for Tactical Networks.”
•November 2007: Army awards IAI a new Phase I contract for the project called “Spatio-Temporal Data Modeling Using Formal Ontology Technology.”
•November 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled Auto-Tracking Steerable Laser Range Finder.”
•October 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “Securing MANET Databases Using Metadata and Context Information.”
•October 2007: Navy awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “Ultra Wideband Radio For Secure Communications in a Noisy Environment.”
•October 2007: IAI Employee's Doctoral Dissertation Results in New Tool to Fight Terrorism
•September 2007: IAI Wins Tibbetts Award for the Second Time
•September 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “LIBS-THz Spectroscopy for Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) Detection”
•September 2007: BAA awards IAI a new contract for the project called “An Integrated Agent-based Framework for Simulated, Virtual and Live Testing of Teams of Unmanned Vehicles”
•September 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “Mobile Ad Hoc Networked GPS for Robust Positioning”
•September 2007: NIJ awards IAI a new contract for the project called “UWB Enhanced Time Difference of Arrival System”
•September 2007: Army awards IAI a new STTR Phase II contract for the project called “Analysis and Visualization of Large Complex Multi-Step Cyber Attack Graphs”
•August 2007: University of Oklahoma awards IAI a new contract for the project called “Airborne Phased Array Radar for Microphysics-Based External Hazard Detection and Monitoring.”
•August 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “An On-Board, Extensible Multi-Channel Data Acquisition System for Turbine Engine Testing.”
•August 2007: NASA awards IAI a new GSA contract for the project called “Terminal Area and Airport Surface Editor (TAASE).”
•August 2007: NASA awards IAI a new contract for the project called “Radio Fence Transmitter Node.”
•August 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new STTR Phase I contract for the project called “A Miniature RFID Sensor for Biological Warfare Agents (BWAS) Detection.”
•August 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new STTR Phase II contract for the project called “Heterodyne Correlation Random Noise Radar for Through Wall and Building Interior Imaging.”
•August 2007: NASA awards IAI a new GSA contract for the project called “Ultrasonic Guided Wave Software Toolbox Development for NASA.”
•August 2007: NASA awards IAI a new contract for the project called “Multi-Fidelity, Pluggable Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Models to Support NGATS Concepts.”
•July 2007: Navy awards IAI a new STTR Phase I contract for the project called “Dynamical Systems Tools For Team Performance Assessment and Enhancement.”
•July 2007: Navy awards IAI a new STTR Phase I contract for the project called “A Graphical Game Theoretic Asymmetric Tactic and Strategy Generation for Simulation.”
•July 2007: Navy awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Self-Powered Wireless Acoustic Sensors for Impact Detection and Evaluation.”
•July 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Performance Evaluation Modeling for Multi-Sensor ATR and Tracking System.”
•July 2007: Navy awards IAI a new STTR Phase I contract for the project called “A Robust Non-Cooperative Face/Iris Recognition Scheme from a Distance in Maritime Domain.”
•June 2007: Electronic Data System awards IAI a new contract for the project called “DCL External Booth Enclosures and Associated Templates Automated Inspection Enclosure Sets.”
•June 2007: NIH awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “MACARM: A Novel Cable Robot for Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation In Stroke Survivor.”
•June 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “Adaptive Free Space Optical and Radio Frequency Network Centric Cooperative Communications.”
•June 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “MEMS-Based Flexible Shear-Stress Sensor Skin for Skin-Friction Measurements.”
•June 2007: Navy awards IAI a new STTR Phase I contract for the project called “RCASS System Design and Analysis for UAV Applications.”
•May 2007: ONR awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Multiuser Estimation: A Distributed Error Correction Technique for Sensor Networks.”
•May 2007: SPAWAR awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Standardizing a Multi-Enclave Federated UDDI for Use in a Dynamic Service Oriented Architecture.”
•May 2007: IAI visits AFRL
•May 2007: ONR awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “A Novel Reconfigurable Distributed Anomaly Detection Framework.”
•May 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Calibration Standards for Thermosonic Nondestructive Evaluation.”
•May 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Time-Resolved Acoustic Microscopy for Nondestructive Evaluation of Silicon Carbide (SiC) Optics.”
•May 2007: Kirtland Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “Hybrid Wiring Circuitry.”
•May 2007: NAVAIR awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Guided Shear Horizontal (SH) Wave Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) for In-Situ Nondestructive Inspection of Ice and Cracks.”
•May 2007: Robins Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Low-Cost Hybrid Tap-Echo Technique for Kissing Bond Inspection.”
•April 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Integrated Aiding and Training.”
•April 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “Distributed High-Dimensional Mining Tool for Bioscience Data Analysis.”
•April 2007: Naval Research awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Software Defined Display on Flexible 360 Degrees Screen.”
•April 2007: Air Force Research Lab awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Semantic-Based Authorization and Access Framework for the Virtual Enterprise.”
•April 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “An Innovative Agent-Based Distributed Framework for Measuring and Tracking Team Performance in Collaborative Environments.”
•April 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Integrated Graphical Models for Efficient and Practical Network Attack Damage.”
•April 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “A Cross-Layer Approach for Reliable Communication in Airborne Networks.”
•April 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “An Integrated Robust and Auto-Configurable Network Service Protocol Suite for Wireless Airborne Networks.”
•April 2007: Missile Defense Agency awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Agent-based Multi-missile Interception Simulation Tool Using Distributed Pursuit-evasion Game.”
•April 2007: Wright Patterson Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called "BREEZE."
•April 2007: Air Force Research Lab awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called "Cyber Situation."
•April 2007: IAI Scientists Play a Lead Role in Organizing the Fall AAAI Symposium
•March 2007: Wright Patterson Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called "UAV Weather Radar."
•January 2007: NASA awards IAI a new SBIR contract for the project called “An Integrated Human System Interaction (HSI) Framework for Human-Agent Team Collaboration.”
•January 2007: NASA awards IAI a new SBIR contract for the project called “ACES Model Composition and Development Toolkit to Support NGATS Concepts.”
•January 2007: NASA awards IAI a new SBIR contract for the project called “Decision Support Tool and Simulation Testbed for Airborne Spacing and Merging in Super Dense Operations.”
•January 2007: US Army awards IAI a new SBIR contract for the project called “Simulation-Based Training Approach to Cross-Cultural Training.”
•January 2007: Wright Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Experiment Exploited, Simulation Based, and Distributed Tool for Injury Assessment.”
•January 2007: US Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “A General Framework of Image Fusion for Concealed Weapon Detection.”
•January 2007: Wright Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Secure Web Interfaces to Database.”
December 2007: DARPA awards IAI a new Phase I contract entitled “A Practical Transcription System for the Hearing Impaired.”
IAI receives a new Phase I contract from the DARPA for the proposal named “A Practical Transcription System for the Hearing Impaired.” In this proposal, we propose a novel handheld system to automatically identify the current speaker and recognize his/her speech. The system consists of several parts. First, the acoustic signal collected by the commercial off-the-shelf array microphone is first passed through the state machine based speech segmentation module to extract the speech segments. The speech segments are then enhanced by speech enhancement module to compensate the channel distortion and background noise. The enhanced speech is then fed to speaker identification and speech recognition modules. For each recognizable speaker, the speaker adaptation module is continuously adapting its models for both speaker identification and speech recognition. This handheld transcription device would be extremely helpful to these individuals with daily life and communication needs. There is no existing product on the market which has similar capabilities and we expect the aggregate market size to be very large. Technologies developed in this system, like real-time speaker identification, real-time speech recognition and speech enhancement will be useful for most other speech processing applications.
December 2007: DARPA awards IAI a new Phase I contract entitled “Frameworks for Semantic Integration of Intelligent Sensor Processing Systems.”
IAI receives a new Phase I contract from the DARPA for the proposal named “Frameworks for Semantic Integration of Intelligent Sensor Processing Systems.” The problem of unifying symbolic knowledge and concept representations and systems with the sensor inputs from the external environment is fundamental to the development of autonomous sensor-to-symbol systems. Existing approaches do not provide ways for allowing systems to rapidly incorporate new knowledge. The proposed sensor-to-symbol framework addresses the following key capabilities:
- Provides a unified approach to representation that encompasses sensor data, features, similarity representations, and
classes/categories/types.
- Defines an integrated architecture and system engineering approach that focuses on iterative development, adaptation, and
knowledge acquisition.
- Support for integration of heterogeneous computation models through model-driven system development approaches.
December 2007: NASA awards IAI a new contract entitled “A Novel Non-Intrusive Multi-Modal System for Real-Time Operator State Assessment.”
IAI receives a new contract from the NASA for the proposal named “A Novel Non-Intrusive Multi-Modal System for Real-Time Operator State Assessment.” Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) and its subcontractor, Prof. Qiang Ji of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), propose a novel non-intrusive multi-modal system for real-time monitoring of the operator state. Our proposed system contains four different sensing modalities: 1) two video cameras equipped with infrared LED's; 2) a microphone; 3) a set of stress and strain sensors mounted on the operator's seat and the stick, and 4) A non-contact Rf based hydration sensor mounted in the seat. For each sensing modality, we will develop techniques to extract specific features for operator state detection. Due to its superior classification performance, Support Vector Machines (SVM) will be used to detect the operator state at different levels for both video and tactile channels while Gaussian Mixture Models will be used for the audio channel. The classification results from each modality will be fused using the Dempster-Shafer (D-S) data fusion technique.
December 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “A Data-Mining Integrated Game Theoretic Data-Fusion Approach for Persistent Dismount Surveillance in Urban Environment.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Army for the proposal named “A Data-Mining Integrated Game Theoretic Data-Fusion Approach for Persistent Dismount Surveillance in Urban Environment.” To achieve the goal of detection and tracking of dismounts in a persistent, multiple-sensor surveillance scenario, the desired algorithms/system should deduce not only human activity associative detection and tracking, but also the high-level intent based tracking. In this proposal, we propose a highly innovative integrated data-mining / data-fusion approach for persistent dismount surveillance in urban environment. Our approach has two major fully coupled parts: 1) Data fusion module. Multiple-Sensor data are fused to perform situation awareness. A graphical dynamic game model is used to generate the intent inference of the dismount; and 2) Data-mining module. Adaptation (online-learning) and pattern/feature recognition are carried out to dynamically select appropriate features or feature sets and associate them with the complete dismount sequence (low-level) and adversary intent (high-level). In this module, we introduce a hierarchical human activity model to incorporate the human intent, which is modeled by Course of Actions (COAs).
December 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “Orthogonal Spectroscopic Technique Using Femtosecond Laser-Induced-Breakdown and Laser-Induced-Fluorescence for Standoff Explosive Detection.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Army for the proposal named “Orthogonal Spectroscopic Technique Using Femtosecond Laser-Induced-Breakdown and Laser-Induced-Fluorescence for Standoff Explosive Detection.” In this proposal, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI), along with its subcontractor, Prof. James Spicer from the Johns Hopkins University, proposes to develop a novel femtosecond laser-induced-fluorescence spectroscopy (LIFS) to form an orthogonal spectroscopic system with a femtosecond LIBS for detection and identification of hazardous materials. The key innovation of our proposed approach lies in applications of the orthogonal features associated with the LIBS and LIFS to enhance the signal detection for explosives. Due to the similarity in optics and electronics of a LIFS and LIBS, the combination of a femtosecond LIFS and LIBS can take advantages of both systems, without substantially increasing the overall system’s configuration and cost.
December 2007: NASA Langley awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract entitled “Decision Support Tool and Simulation Testbed for Airborne Spacing and Merging in Super Dense Operations.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase II contract from the NASA Langley for the proposal named “Decision Support Tool and Simulation Testbed for Airborne Spacing and Merging in Super Dense Operations.” The key innovation in this effort is the development of a decision support tool and simulation testbed for Airborne Spacing and Merging (ASM). We focus on concepts related to airports with Super Dense Operations (SDO) where new airport runway configurations (e.g. parallel runways), simultaneous operations on runway, close trajectory maneuvers, simultaneous sequencing, merging de-confliction and spacing capacities are some of the proposed concepts currently being considered. We focus on modeling and simulating a complementary airborne and ground system for ASM to increase efficiency and capacity of these high density terminal areas. From a ground systems perspective a scheduling DST will generate arrival sequences and spacing requirements that will be fed to the ASM system operating on the flight deck. We propose to use and enhance NASA’s Airspace Concept Evaluation Systems (ACES) Software to model and simulate our concept. Our Phase I simulation will include a prototype model of an airport emulating SDO and an implementation of airborne spacing and merging algorithms implemented in the ACES flight agents. Integral to our proposed effort will be understanding future demand in terminal areas as NAS transitions to NGATS type concepts and operations in 2025. Here we also focus on the impacts of possible Very Light Jet (VLJ) induced traffic. Using the simulations we will evaluate the performance of our approach as air traffic densities increase, evaluate controller workload and investigate extensions needed for totally airborne autonomous operations i.e. allow airplanes communicate to set priorities, sequencing and merging requirements.
December 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “An Integrated Denial of Service (DoS) Mitigation Scheme for Tactical Networks.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Army for the proposal named “An Integrated Denial of Service (DoS) Mitigation Scheme for Tactical Networks.” One important class of security threats, Denial of Service (DoS) caused by the commodity of shared wireless medium is not fully addressable through conventional security mechanisms. In reality, DoS is such an easy attack which can be launched by an inexperienced attacker, but may cause significant system performance degradation, or even network partition and failure. Therefore, to ensure accurate, secure, and reliable “mission-critical” information delivery in the Network Centric Warfare systems, DoS attacks have to be further addressed. In this proposal, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) and its subcontractor, Professor Yang Xiao from the University of Alabama propose an integrated pipeline structure to mitigate the effects of DoS attacks, including DoS prevention, DoS detection and DoS response components. For each component, a set of DoS mitigation mechanisms are designed. One significant advantage of the proposed scheme is that it adopts the common defense strategies used in our daily life as well as the military war. In simple words, if A tries to fight with B, there are three approaches that B can do: 1) build high defense guard, 2) fight back when unavoidable, 3) escape when facing with unbeatable enemy. The three functional components in our proposed scheme correspond to these three defense strategies.
November 2007: OSD/Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “Hierarchical Management System for Tactical Power Grids.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the OSD/Army for the proposal named “Hierarchical Management System for Tactical Power Grids.” Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI), and Georgia Institute of Technology detail an intelligent hierarchical power management system that provides self-diagnostics, plug-and-play capability, and a set of practical, integrated software and hardware tools for efficient power system management with a minimum of required hardware. In the proposed system, power management is conducted at two levels, grid level and load center level, in a distributed fashion using a high fidelity system model. The grid level management is conducted at local nodes. Each node has its own model and intelligence to perform analysis and take local decisions. Each node is implemented on low-cost reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), is located close to, but does not require integration with, the (legacy) load. The “brain centers” perform the load center level power management using all the models of connected components of the system in real time and assemble the integrated model of the entire tactical grid. The proposed system will be scalable, highly reliable, and flexible with “plug and play” capabilities by virtue of its distributed nature, and capable of managing efficient utilization of energy sources and maximizing the reliability of the power supply.
November 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “A Swarm Intelligence Based Approach to Secure, Scalable and Robust Design for Tactical Networks.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Army for the proposal named “A Swarm Intelligence Based Approach to Secure, Scalable and Robust Design for Tactical Networks.” Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) and Prof. Richard J. La from University of Maryland propose an innovative swarm intelligence (SI) based approach to secure, scalable and robust design of tactical networks. Basic idea is to demonstrate the effectiveness of ant-based multi-path routing for robust and secure network performance and hence enhanced confidence in networked system operation. In our proposed framework, cooperative behavior of ants will be leveraged to keep the network functioning even during nodes getting destroyed, disabled, compromised, or captured by the enemy. Basic motivation comes from biology that a system should have built-in redundancy for optimal performance. Following this architecture we shall demonstrate a SI based network paradigm at work which facilitates the integrated design and robust operation of a complex network under unpredictable environment along with built in simulation and operational capabilities.
November 2007: Army awards IAI a new Phase I contract for the project called “Spatio-Temporal Data Modeling Using Formal Ontology Technology.”
IAI receives a new Phase I contract from Army for the proposal named called “Spatio-Temporal Data Modeling Using Formal Ontology Technology.” Developments in net centric applications, location aware computing and sensor network deployment have resulted in awareness that data modeling which can support applications having entities and events with spatio-temporal aspects that are subject to change must be further developed. Diverse, though scattered or narrowly focused, recent research efforts have noted the importance of going beyond the traditional Entity-Relationship model and incorporating semantics into the modeling. The significance of the opportunity is that if an appropriate data model that incorporates the spatio-temporal aspects of entities and associated events is developed: (1) computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools can incorporate the primitives for the enhanced data modeling, (2) appropriate query language extensions may be developed and (3) guidance may be given to application designers. We propose to develop a data model that incorporates spatial and temporal aspects into entity and associated event data through the innovative use of formal logic-based ontology technology. In developing the spatio-temporal data model, our effort will be informed by existing standards / specifications from the Open Geospatial Consortium.
November 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled Auto-Tracking Steerable Laser Range Finder.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Army for the proposal named Auto-Tracking Steerable Laser Range Finder.” The next generation of infantry weapons will include small arms capable of delivering air busting ammunitions over considerable ranges. These weapons will be equipped with sophisticated target acquisition/fire control systems (TA/FC). In order to accomplish its purpose, the TA/FC system needs accurate range information to the target. This information will be provided by a laser range finder (LRF) integrated with the TA/FC system, and it will be up to the soldier to accurately aim the laser range finder at the enemy target of interest. To facilitate the soldier’s task of obtaining an accurate range to the target, Intelligent Automation Inc. proposes to augment the TA/FC capabilities with a miniature steerable LRF operating in conjunction with a target tracking system. By integrating the two systems together it will no longer be necessary for the soldier to aim the range finder exactly at the desired target, but only to its vicinity. The potential of the proposed effort cannot be sufficiently emphasized. Based on preliminary data, it can be substantiated that the success of the proposed project has the potential of translating into significant increases in system lethality (in the order of 50%). Improvements of such magnitude require little justification.
October 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract entitled “Securing MANET Databases Using Metadata and Context Information.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Air Force for the proposal named “Securing MANET Databases Using Metadata and Context Information.” Existing commercial database security products can effectively operate in a static environment; however, they cannot guarantee to provide the same level database security in highly mobile environments such as Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET). MANET has no fixed infrastructure due to the mobility of the nodes, and it is difficult to reuse centralized security services as in wired networks. It is critical to provide distributed security services (e.g., key management, authentication, access control) for MANET databases. In this proposal, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) and its subcontractor, Professor Le Gruenwald, propose a secure MANET database system using metadata and context information for cross domain controls. First, we propose a context-based security model to model the context data and measure context based security policies. Second, we propose a metadata-based mandatory access control mechanism to achieve multiple security level across different security domains. Third, we propose a novel key establishment approach to authenticate mobile nodes using multi-path RF signal.
October 2007: Navy awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “Ultra Wideband Radio For Secure Communications in a Noisy Environment.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase II contract from the Navy for the proposal named “Ultra Wideband Radio For Secure Communications in a Noisy Environment.” A primary deficiency inherent in gimbaled systems is intermittent platform (inner element) communication failures caused by debris or moisture on the slip rings. A creative approach is needed to make this communication link reliable and secure. Develop a secure and highly reliable methodology for transmitting data from/to the inertial navigation system platform to the external processor. This can be accomplished by transmission over/through the slip rings, through the structure, wireless, through fiber optics, or other means as long as EMI and reliability standards are met. Although the data rates are not high, they must be reliable because the system does not tolerate multiple/repeated failure to receive/send data words. The reliability problems of slip rings have existed for well over 60 years. New, innovative science & technology approaches are needed to solve these problems.
October 2007: IAI Employee's Doctoral Dissertation Results in New Tool to Fight Terrorism
Software developed by current IAI Research Scientist, Praveen Paruchuri, while completing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Southern California, is being evaluated at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The ARMOR software, based on game theory principles, randomizes where, when, and how often vehicles will be searched at airport entrances. The LAX Police hope the tool will help keep potential terrorists and criminals in constant uncertainty about their security patrols.
For more details, visit the following links:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-airport1oct01,1,5900614.story
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21035785/site/newsweek/
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/09/30/138233.shtml
September 2007: IAI Wins Tibbetts Award for the Second Time
Intelligent Automation has been selected for the prestigious Tibbetts award. The award recognizes our “significant achievements involving technological innovation related to the federal Small Business Innovation Research Program."
This year's award acknowledges IAI's development of Cybele and its application to a variety of government programs. Our nomination and selection for the award was encouraged and supported by IAI clients.
This is the second Tibbetts Award to IAI. The first, in 2000, was based on our work in developing a zero gravity exercise system for NASA. That body of work has been significantly extended and continues today in the domain of physical rehabilitation.
September 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “LIBS-THz Spectroscopy for Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) Detection”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase II contract from the Army for the proposal named “LIBS-THz Spectroscopy for Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) Detection.” We detail the development of a compact, portable, relatively inexpensive and field testable LIBS-THz sensor system for standoff explosive detection. In phase I, We have validated the feasibility of using the proposed technique for explosive detection. Phase II will be focusing on the improvement of the sensor performance in terms of sensitivity, selectivity and standoff detection distance.
September 2007: BAA awards IAI a new contract for the project called “An Integrated Agent-based Framework for Simulated, Virtual and Live Testing of Teams of Unmanned Vehicles”
IAI receives a new contract from the BAA for the proposal named “An Integrated Agent-based Framework for Simulated, Virtual and Live Testing of Teams of Unmanned Vehicles.” We provide a brief overview of the proposed Integrated Agent-based T&E Framework for Teams of Unmanned Autonomous Systems. This proposed framework and software will allow for systematic and structured T&E of technologies in the cognitive/social domain using a combination of simulation, hardware in the loop testing (mixed mode live and virtual UAS) and live testing. Using this proposed technology testers will quickly and efficiently be able to develop test plans and validate UAST performance.
September 2007: Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “Mobile Ad Hoc Networked GPS for Robust Positioning”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase II contract from the Army for the proposal named “Mobile Ad Hoc Networked GPS for Robust Positioning.” In phase II, after developing a hardware prototype of integrated INS/GPS we will build a small network of INS/GPS nodes to evaluate our algorithm in a live test. We will also develop a Hardware In the Loop simulation that allows IAI to test and evaluate the scalability of its algorithm and hardware in a large network with a fraction of the budget of an all “physical node” test. The specific application is the ARMY One Tactical Engagement Simulation System (OneTESS), engagement centric test and training program where soldier and platform position estimates are required with high accuracy for target-shooter pairings, weapons effects, and engagement resolution.
September 2007: NIJ awards IAI a new contract for the project called “UWB Enhanced Time Difference of Arrival System”
IAI receives a new contract from the NIJ for the proposal named “UWB Enhanced Time Difference of Arrival System.” We detail a unique implementation of a Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) infrastructure which will provide the performance needed for law enforcement applications. The proposed surveillance technology allows for locating any wireless communication device inside or outside of buildings. It can be used for both cooperative tracking (firefighter/police/EMS radios) without requiring an additional transmitter, and non-cooperative tracking (hijacker cell phone). IAI is targeting NIJ’s requirements for novel sensors in surveillance technologies, as mentioned in the solicitation. The system employs Ultra Wideband (UWB) enhanced TDOA technique. The TDOA enhanced sensor not only detects signals of interest but also locates the positions of the emitting devices (cell/cordless phones, walkie-talkies, etc.) in 2D or 3D with accuracy measured in feet. The proposed approach will use COTS software controlled radio receivers/ RF front ends for automated scanning and inspection of frequency bands of interest (like police scanners).
September 2007: Army awards IAI a new STTR Phase II contract for the project called “Analysis and Visualization of Large Complex Multi-Step Cyber Attack Graphs”
IAI receives a new STTR Phase II contract from the Army for the proposal named “Analysis and Visualization of Large Complex Multi-Step Cyber Attack Graphs.” In Phase II, we will extend the research. First, we will construct type abstract graphs (TAG) via text mining vulnerability and attack database, and finalize graph generation and analysis algorithms. Second, we will develop a distributed Bayesian inference framework using our multi-agent approach, which will better situational awareness and prediction capability. Third, we will investigate algorithms for action planning and extend the graphical models to application and mission assessment. Finally, the developed models and algorithms will be implemented into a prototype software tool, and we will evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach using large-scale simulations and experimentations on actual enterprise networks. Our work will greatly enhance the research and practice aiming at practical and useful software tool to aid security analysis in normal and attack situations.
August 2007: University of Oklahoma awards IAI a new contract for the project called “Airborne Phased Array Radar for Microphysics-Based External Hazard Detection and Monitoring.”
IAI receives a new contract from University of Oklahoma for the proposal named “Airborne Phased Array Radar for Microphysics-Based External Hazard Detection and Monitoring.” The University of Oklahoma, Norman proposes an innovative sensing platform which employs X-band airborne weather radar. This technology adds significant enhancement to existing airborne weather sensors in detecting-avoiding a broad range of external hazards, and an integrated L-band transponder for communications with cooperative aircrafts/ground stations. By incorporating a simple monopulse beam forming technique, the proposed system has capability of detecting both weather hazards and air-traffics while avoiding complicated antenna array architecture. By leveraging dual-polarized antenna and transceivers, the system is able to identify and classify the atmospheric hazard types (especially for hydrometeors); a capability has been proven critical for ground-based weather systems. Furthermore, the architecture is able to support cross-beam turbulence and wind shear measurements, thus 2-D or 3-D wind-field with associated hazard identifications can be displayed to pilots.
August 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “An On-Board, Extensible Multi-Channel Data Acquisition System for Turbine Engine Testing.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Air Force for the proposal named “An On-Board, Extensible Multi-Channel Data Acquisition System for Turbine Engine Testing.” We propose to develop an innovative on-board, extensible multi-channel data acquisition system that can accurately collect weak output signals of multiple strain sensors, which are distributed on a turbine engine. It includes a 24-bit high resolution analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion circuit, a high speed FPGA for synchronization and data management, and an Ethernet system with smart sensor memory to transfer the sensor data in real-time to a remote computer system. It requires only one wire connection between the test cell and the control room, has high noise robustness, and achieves fast data synchronization and efficient task automation.
August 2007: NASA awards IAI a new GSA contract for the project called “Terminal Area and Airport Surface Editor (TAASE).”
IAI receives a new GSA contract from the NASA for the proposal named “Terminal Area and Airport Surface Editor (TAASE).” The Terminal Area and Airport Surface Editor (TAASE) tool, developed under this effort, will support the development and maintenance of a standard set of terminal airspace descriptions and airport surface descriptions for use by Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) Airspace and Airportal Project researchers. The TAASE tool will be a global tool for developing and maintaining airport surface and terminal area data supporting NASA’s Airspace Concept Evaluation System (ACES), Surface Management System (SMS), Center TRACON Automation System (CTAS) and Airspace Traffic Generator (ATG).
August 2007: NASA awards IAI a new contract for the project called “Radio Fence Transmitter Node.”
IAI receives a new contract from the NASA for the proposal named “Radio Fence Transmitter Node.” Wireless communications are uni-directional from the transmitting node, through the relay nodes, and to the receiving node. Under the proposed extension, we will 1) add a second radio fence to the system, operating on a different channel from the first. The wireless communication direction in the second fence will be opposite from the direction in the first fence. 2) Implement a data link between the transmitting node of the first fence, and the receiving node of the second fence. This link may be wireless, or consist of RS-232 through a wire. 3) Demonstrate transmission of control signals from the PC through the second radio fence to the nodes of the first radio fence.
August 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new STTR Phase I contract for the project called “A Miniature RFID Sensor for Biological Warfare Agents (BWAS) Detection.”
IAI receives a new STTR Phase I contract from the Air Force for the proposal named “A Miniature RFID Sensor for Biological Warfare Agents (BWAS) Detection.” We detail the development of a novel miniature RFID sensor for BWA tracking and identification at a standoff distance. The key innovations of our approach include: a) The design of a planar inverted- F antenna (PIFA) on the RFID chip to receive and transmit RF signal. The compactness, good impedance and radiation performance, and ease of fabrication make PIFA well suited for the current application.; b) The use of a DNA decorated carbon nanotube (CNT) resonator as the chemical sensing element.; c) A compact reader will be implemented with Conventional-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) elements to allow portable applications; and d)The application of similarity measure algorithms to detect minute changes in the detected signal, thus increasing the detection probability and standoff range.
August 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new STTR Phase II contract for the project called “Heterodyne Correlation Random Noise Radar for Through Wall and Building Interior Imaging.”
IAI receives a new STTR Phase II contract from the Air Force for the proposal named “Heterodyne Correlation Random Noise Radar for Through Wall and Building Interior Imaging.” We propose a coherent continuous-wave ultrawideband random noise radar architecture based on heterodyne correlation and adaptive software radar techniques for covertly imaging obscured targets and interfaces. The proposed approach has the following two advantages over competing systems: (i) random noise waveform possesses an ideal ambiguity function with separately controlled down-range and cross-range resolutions, providing unambiguous high resolution imaging at any distance; and (ii) random noise waveform is inherently low-probability-of-intercept (LPI), low-probability-of-detection (LPD), and anti-jam. Thus, it is an ideal candidate sensor for covert imaging of obscured regions in hostile environments.
August 2007: NASA awards IAI a new GSA contract for the project called “Ultrasonic Guided Wave Software Toolbox Development for NASA.”
IAI receives a new GSA contract from the NASA for the proposal named “Ultrasonic Guided Wave Software Toolbox Development for NASA.” The objective of this procurement is to procure a software program that will be used to demonstrate virtual inspection capability using ultrasonic guided waves as applied to a variety of exploration hardware at NASA. Existing software code that was developed under other our contracts will be combined together and placed into a usable software tool that NASA end users can use to perform computational modeling and virtual inspections using ultrasonic guided waves. The overall software graphical user interface (GUI) shall be developed in the most current version of Labview software and is to be compatible to run on a PC with Windows XP and Windows Vista Operating System.
August 2007: NASA awards IAI a new contract for the project called “Multi-Fidelity, Pluggable Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Models to Support NGATS Concepts.”
IAI receives a new contract from the NASA for the proposal named “Multi-Fidelity, Pluggable Communication, Navigation and Surveillance Models to Support NGATS Concepts.” We will work jointly with Raytheon and Analex Corporation, propose to evaluate, develop and integrate CNS models to support airborne and ground based applications that enable new concepts of aircraft operations proposed for NGATS.
July 2007: Navy awards IAI a new STTR Phase I contract for the project called “Dynamical Systems Tools For Team Performance Assessment and Enhancement.”
IAI receives a new STTR Phase I contract from the Navy for the proposal named “Dynamical Systems Tools for Team Performance Assessment and Enhancement.”
The ability of a team to perform well under mission pressures can mean not only difference between mission success and failure but can also impact team safety. Effective training is a key element of building effective team performance.
July 2007: Navy awards IAI a new STTR Phase I contract for the project called “A Graphical Game Theoretic Asymmetric Tactic and Strategy Generation for Simulation.”
IAI receives a new STTR Phase I contract from the Navy for the proposal named “A Graphical Game Theoretic Asymmetric Tactic and Strategy Generation for Simulation.” We propose a highly innovative data fusion with data mining approach for asymmetric adversary tactics and strategy generation in synthetic training environment. Our approach has two parts: 1) Data fusion module. Sensor data are fused to obtain the situation awareness. A graphical dynamic game model is used to generate the Course of Actions (COAs) of two sides (Blue-trainees, and Red-asymmetric adversary strategy generator). The COAs of red will be implemented as the asymmetric adversary tactics and strategies; and 2) Dynamic/adaptive feature recognition module. Adaptation (online-learning) and pattern/feature recognition are carried out to dynamically select (or mine) appropriate features or feature sets of blue side so that the algorithm parameters in the Data Fusion Module can be dynamically, intelligently, automatically tuned.
July 2007: Navy awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Self-Powered Wireless Acoustic Sensors for Impact Detection and Evaluation.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Navy for the proposal named
“Self-Powered Wireless Acoustic Sensors for Impact Detection and Evaluation.” The use of acoustics for impact detection and structural health monitoring has been proven successful. Conventional acoustic techniques require multiple acoustic sensors for the impact source location and damage interpretation.
July 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Performance Evaluation Modeling for Multi-Sensor ATR and Tracking System.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Air Force for the proposal named
“Performance Evaluation Modeling for Multi-Sensor ATR and Tracking System.” We propose a new performance modeling and prediction framework for the evaluation of ATR and tracking systems with various sensor fusion algorithms. The primary goals are to enhance the operational ability of the ATR, to reduce the ambiguity of tracking closely spaced targets, and to develop a realistic performance prediction model.
July 2007: Navy awards IAI a new STTR Phase I contract for the project called “A Robust Non-Cooperative Face/Iris Recognition Scheme from a Distance in Maritime Domain.”
IAI receives a new STTR Phase I contract from the Navy for the proposal named “A Robust Non-Cooperative Face/Iris Recognition Scheme from a Distance in Maritime Domain.” Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), its academic partner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Dr. Qiang Ji as the lead and its industrial partner Sarnoff Corporation with Dr. James R. Matey as the lead, propose a robust, automatic, innovative scheme for face recognition from a distance of as far as 50m and iris recognition from a distance of up to 10m to be used in maritime domain for recognition of non-cooperative individuals in real-time.
June 2007: Electronic Data System awards IAI a new contract for the project called “DCL External Booth Enclosures and Associated Templates Automated Inspection Enclosure Sets.”
IAI receives a new contract from the Electronic Data System for the proposal named “DCL External Booth Enclosures and Associated Templates Automated Inspection Enclosure Sets.” We will provide them Assemble Automated Inspection Enclosures Sets.
June 2007: NIH awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “MACARM: A Novel Cable Robot for Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation In Stroke Survivor.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the NIH for the proposal named “MACARM: A Novel Cable Robot for Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation In Stroke Survivor.” The proposed Phase I project will focus on further technical development of the MACARM and performance evaluation using human subjects. A clinical study using the MACARM will take place in Phase II. The specific aims for this Phase I SBIR are: to improve the real-time control algorithms used in the MACARM software; to integrate an inertial sensor for the purpose of patient shoulder tracking during system use; to develop software for three-dimensional gravity compensation of the upper limb; to evaluate the technical performance of the MACARM; and to perform a human subject study using the MACARM.
June 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “Adaptive Free Space Optical and Radio Frequency Network Centric Cooperative Communications.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase II contract from the Air Force for the proposal named
“Adaptive Free Space Optical and Radio Frequency Network Centric Cooperative Communications.” The proposed research aims towards adaptively using a wide variety of distributed cooperation techniques in wireless multi-hop networks. These techniques are intended to improve overall system throughput, reduce the cost of node elements, and extend the units’ service lives.
June 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “MEMS-Based Flexible Shear-Stress Sensor Skin for Skin-Friction Measurements.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from Air Force for the proposal named “MEMS-Based Flexible Shear-Stress Sensor Skin for Skin-Friction Measurements.” The skin-friction force measurement on a wind tunnel model is very important for fluidic dynamic design, verification, monitoring, and diagnostics applications. It is of special interest to measure the shear stress on non-planar surfaces, because the fluctuation of airflow in those areas changes dramatically.
June 2007: Navy awards IAI a new STTR Phase I contract for the project called “RCASS System Design and Analysis for UAV Applications.”
IAI receives a new STTR Phase I contract from Navy for the proposal named “RCASS System Design and Analysis for UAV Applications.” The innovation of this project is a radar based collision avoidance sensor suite (RCASS) that allows small autonomous UAVs to detect cooperative and non-cooperative targets in air spaces co-located with manned air space.
May 2007: ONR awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Multiuser Estimation: A Distributed Error Correction Technique for Sensor Networks.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from ONR for the proposal named “Multiuser Estimation: A Distributed Error Correction Technique for Sensor Networks”. To ensure the freedom of maneuver for forces moving from the sea to inland, surface and subsurface threats including small and fast boats, submarines, and mines should be detected and located. The most effective method to carry out this task is to deploy a large grid of distributed sensors that reports the littoral activities to the command and control units.
May 2007: SPAWAR awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Standardizing a Multi-Enclave Federated UDDI for Use in a Dynamic Service Oriented Architecture.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from SPAWAR for the proposal named “Standardizing a Multi-Enclave Federated UDDI for Use in a Dynamic Service Oriented Architecture”. Fulfilling the promise of a net-centric service oriented architecture for information systems depends on the availability of dynamic discovery of services. The premier standards-based service oriented architecture of today is based on Web services; the specifications include those for the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) Registry service. These specifications are geared to the eCommerce world; the development of UDDI standards supports development of commercial-off-the-shelf software tools.
May 2007: IAI visits AFRL
IAI visits AFRL in Mesa, AZ to brief 3 newly awarded projects, each dealing with an aspect of distributed distance learning technologies: performance assessment, rapid and efficient training methods, and job aiding and training.
Pictured from left to right are Dr. Jacqueline Haynes, Executive Vice President and Founder of IAI, Mr. Ohad Bukai, and Dr. Robert Pokorny. Not shown is Dr. Wei Chen (who is is taking the picture).
May 2007: ONR awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “A Novel Reconfigurable Distributed Anomaly Detection Framework.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from ONR for the proposal named “A Novel Reconfigurable Distributed Anomaly Detection Framework.” Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) proposes to develop a novel, distributed framework for the detection of faults and anomalies. The proposed framework is based on dynamic, reconfigurable agents and is capable of automatically representing and managing disparate data sources.
May 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Calibration Standards for Thermosonic Nondestructive Evaluation.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for the proposal named “Calibration Standards for Thermosonic Nondestructive Evaluation.” Laser shock peening (LSP) provides a means to the surface treatment for metals by inducing compressive stress, and prevents fatigue cracks on foreign object damage (FOD)-prone areas such as the leading edges of compressor airfoils in a modern gas turbine. While LSP is a mature and reliable manufacturing process, slight anomalies during the process or variations in material ductility can cause small subsurface cracks to form in the resultant LSP processed material.
May 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Time-Resolved Acoustic Microscopy for Nondestructive Evaluation of Silicon Carbide (SiC) Optics.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for the proposal named “Time-Resolved Acoustic Microscopy for Nondestructive Evaluation of Silicon Carbide (SiC) Optics.” Polycrystalline SiC-based materials are being considered for the next generation aerospace mirror structural substrates due to their low density, low thermal expansion coefficient, high strength, and high fracture toughness. Conventional NDE techniques for optical components, which usually involve polarized light birefringence measurements to enable both defect identification and internal stress estimation, can not be applied to the polycrystalline SiC because it is non-transparent.
May 2007: Kirtland Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “Hybrid Wiring Circuitry.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase II contract from the Kirtland Air Force Base for the proposal named “Hybrid Wiring Circuitry.” In this Phase II proposal, Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI) details an innovative data and power handling architecture that are revolutionary for space based applications to enable a threshold satellite assembly, integration, and checkout capability of 2-3 days, with an objective goal of 6 hours, without sacrificing reliability.
May 2007: NAVAIR awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Guided Shear Horizontal (SH) Wave Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) for In-Situ Nondestructive Inspection of Ice and Cracks.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from NAVAIR for the proposal named “Guided Shear Horizontal (SH) Wave Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) for In-Situ Nondestructive Inspection of Ice and Cracks.” We propose a novel and integrated approach to inspect the ice and cracks in aircraft structures. It combines the state-of-the-art SH wave EMAT technique, through detailed numerical modeling and instrumentation for data collection, with our record-proven advanced signal processing and pattern classification technique, to detect and characterize the ice and crack problems.
May 2007: Robins Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Low-Cost Hybrid Tap-Echo Technique for Kissing Bond Inspection.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from Robins Air Force Base for the proposal named “Low-Cost Hybrid Tap-Echo Technique for Kissing Bond Inspection.” Kissing bonds are those bonds maintaining intimate contact but carries no load. The kissing bond is undetectable with conventional nondestructive evaluation techniques because intimate contact allows sound and heat to transfer normally.
April 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Integrated Aiding and Training.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I from the Air Force for the proposal named “Integrated Aiding and Training.” Organizations that use a common knowledge base for aiding and training benefit in that (a) one knowledge base is easier to develop (b) updates are more timely, as both training and aiding require only one update, and (c) how aiding and training support complex performance can be clearly specified by the transformations used for aiding and training. Further benefits accrue when experts directly express their knowledge into the common knowledge base: the knowledge is current, and incorporates current job-relevant factors, such as available job aids and training.
April 2007: Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase II contract for the project called “Distributed High-Dimensional Mining Tool for Bioscience Data Analysis.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase II from the Air Force for the proposal named “Distributed High-Dimensional Mining Tool for Bioscience Data Analysis.” This SBIR effort focuses on developing an innovative data mining tool called ABMiner (Airborne Miner) to systematically analyze the huge amounts of experiment and sensor data in biomechanics based on the synergy of distributed computation and a dynamic framework of prediction cubes that integrates clustering, classification and regression techniques comprehensively. The research team for this effort includes Prof. Jiawei Han from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.
April 2007: Naval Research awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Software Defined Display on Flexible 360 Degrees Screen.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I from the Naval Research for the proposal named “Software Defined Display on Flexible 360 Degrees Screen.” IAI will provide a Software Defined Display on Flexible LCD Panoramic Viewer with real-time 3D information. We use a number of flexible LCD panels for the panoramic screen. The system uses FPGAs to control the 360° video data and sends portions of entire frame to every LCD panel which also has a FPGA as a controller. FPGA MicroBlaze and our HDL IP cores are used to implement Software Define Display.
April 2007: Air Force Research Lab awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Semantic-Based Authorization and Access Framework for the Virtual Enterprise.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I from the Air Force Research Lab for the proposal named “Semantic-Based Authorization and Access Framework for the Virtual Enterprise.” Different organizations or groups may come together to form the Virtual Enterprise (VE). Information and data with the Virtual Enterprise resides on host computers that are geographically scattered yet comprise part of the IT of the VE. The members of one organization, when acting in a certain role, may have access to certain data categories that are owned by another organization. A new organization, such as a Coalition partner, may join a Virtual Enterprise for a specific mission.
April 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “An Innovative Agent-Based Distributed Framework for Measuring and Tracking Team Performance in Collaborative Environments.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for the proposal named “An Innovative Agent-Based Distributed Framework for Measuring and Tracking Team Performance in Collaborative Environments.” Training and testing of Air Force distributed mission operations (DMO) post significant challenges on team work and distributed decision making; furthermore, assessing and tracking collaborative team performance in a simple, effective and autonomous way both routinely and in real time is key for trainees to successfully carry out complicated mission tasks and for external observers to keep track of the performance of both individual team participants and the team as a whole by integrating monitoring, feedbacks and situational awareness across all types of mission parameters and bservables.
April 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Integrated Graphical Models for Efficient and Practical Network Attack Damage.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for the proposal named “Integrated Graphical Models for Efficient and Practical Network Attack Damage.” We propose integrated graphical models for automatic network attack damage assessment. Graphical models can be powerful in representation, analysis and visualization. The model development is divided into two levels. At the lower level, the focus is on network/system security analysis, and the unique graphical models we will develop are called attack graphs. State-of-the-art attack graphs are either extremely unscalable to be practical or too simplistic to be powerful, and they only support static security analysis.
April 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “A Cross-Layer Approach for Reliable Communication in Airborne Networks.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for the proposal named “A Cross-Layer Approach for Reliable Communication in Airborne Networks.” In this proposal, we propose an innovative technical approach for achieving reliable wireless communications in Airborne Network environment based on an integrated cross-layer design on Link layer, Network layer and Transport layer. Our approach has four main advantageous features: (1) a cross-layer framework assists information exchanges between different networking layers, expedites upper layers’ response to quick changes of physical links and outside environment, and helps to optimize link selections; (2) the approach considers the broad diversity of link types in Airborne Networks, and implements an distributed agent-based link management scheme to enable network’s self-adaptation to link dynamics; (3) a network addressing methodology provides automatic address configuration in Airborne Networks, and easy conversion between Airborne Network addresses and standard IP addresses; and (4) a transport-layer mechanism specially customized for Airborne Networks can provide reliable end-to-end connections on lossy, intermittent and asymmetric paths.
April 2007: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “An Integrated Robust and Auto-Configurable Network Service Protocol Suite for Wireless Airborne Networks.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for the proposal named “An Integrated Robust and Auto-Configurable Network Service Protocol Suite for Wireless Airborne Networks.” The envisioned Airbone Network (AN) is expected to provide seamless connectivity for operators and a large number of applications. All these applications require proper network service support, including auto-configurable addressing, human usable naming, and support for service discovery. In this proposal, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI), in collaboration with Prof. Dharma P. Agrawal at the University of Cincinnati and Dr. T. McAuley at the Telcordia Technologies Inc., proposes an Integrated Robust and Auto-Configurable Network Service Protocol Suite (IRAC_NSPS) to enable a variety of network services in ANs.
April 2007: Missile Defense Agency awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Agent-based Multi-missile Interception Simulation Tool Using Distributed Pursuit-evasion Game.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Missile Defense Agency for the proposal named “Agent-based Multi-missile Interception Simulation Tool Using Distributed Pursuit-evasion Game.” In this proposal, we propose a comprehensive and innovative agent-based simulation tool and game theoretic supporting algorithm. We leverage novel game theoretic method, advanced hierarchical framework, cooperative pursuit strategy, adaptive estimators, limited look-ahead and Markov chain approximation algorithms in the agent-based simulation tool to provide real time simulations which can accommodate a variety of defensive missile scenario and military operations.
April 2007: Wright Patterson Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called "BREEZE."
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Wright Patterson Air Force for the proposal named “BREEZE an innovative web based OSINT trainer.” IAI will develop an innovative tutor for OSINT analysis. BREEZE will import techniques from speed learning, comprehension training and simulation based instruction disciplines to a set of simulation based vignettes to accelerate OSINT training speed.
April 2007: Air Force Research Lab awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called "Cyber Situation."
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Air Force Research Lab for the proposal named “A Game Theoretic Approach for Cyber Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment.” In this proposal, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI), and its academic partners, University of Buffalo team, and its industry partner, Lockheed Martin (LM) MS2 with Mr. Todd Manning Schuck as the lead, propose a highly innovative high level information fusion approach for detection and prediction of multistage stealthy cyber attacks. There are two main parts: the data fusion module, and the dynamic/adaptive feature recognition module.
IAI Scientists Play a Lead Role in Organizing the Fall AAAI Symposium
Dr. Margaret Lyell and Dr. Jason Li of IAI are members of the of the Fall AAAI Symposium Organization Committee Members on “Regarding the Intelligence in Distributed Intelligent Systems”. The Symposium will be held in Arlington, VA (just outside of Washington, D.C.) from November 8-11, 2007.
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW BEING SOLICITED. Deadline for submission is May 1. 2007. The Call for Papers and submission procedure can be found at
http://www.i-a-i.com/AAAI_Distributed_Intelligence_Symposium.
March 2007: Wright Patterson Air Force awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called "UAV Weather Radar."
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the Wright Patterson Air Force for the proposal named “Multi-functional Sensing Platform for UAV With Dual-polarization and Microphysics-based Hazard Monitoring.” Intelligent Automation, Inc (IAI) and its subcontractor, the University of Oklahoma, Norman propose an innovative sensing platform, which employs an X-band airborne weather radar. This adds significant enhancement to existing airborne weather sensors in detecting-avoiding a broad range of external hazards, and an integrated L-band transponder for communications with cooperative aircrafts/ground stations.
January 2007: NASA awards IAI a new SBIR contract for the project called “An Integrated Human System Interaction (HSI) Framework for Human-Agent Team Collaboration.”
IAI receives a new SBIR contract from NASA for the proposal named “An Integrated Human System Interaction (HSI) Framework for Human-Agent Team Collaboration.” The NASA commitment to a human presence in space exploration results in the interaction of humans with challenging environments in space, on lunar, and on planetary bodies. Meeting these challenges requires the development of technologies that will support human system interaction by integrating monitoring, feedback and situational awareness across all types of mission parameters and observables.
January 2007: NASA awards IAI a new SBIR contract for the project called “ACES Model Composition and Development Toolkit to Support NGATS Concepts.”
IAI receives a new SBIR contract from NASA for the proposal named “ACES Model Composition and Development Toolkit to Support NGATS Concepts.” The key innovation proposed in this effort is the development of a model composition toolkit that will enable NASA Airspace Concept Evaluation System (ACES) users to design and compose agents, activities, and models to meet specific design requirements. Our technical approach builds on recent advances in formal agent specification, role composition and model composers.
January 2007: NASA awards IAI a new SBIR contract for the project called “Decision Support Tool and Simulation Testbed for Airborne Spacing and Merging in Super Dense Operations.”
IAI receives a new SBIR contract from NASA for the proposal named “Decision Support Tool and Simulation Testbed for Airborne Spacing and Merging in Super Dense Operations.” The key innovation in this effort is the development of a decision support tool and simulation testbed for Airborne Spacing and Merging (ASM). We focus on concepts related to airports with Super Dense Operations (SDO) where new airport runway configurations (e.g. parallel runways), simultaneous operations on runway, close trajectory maneuvers, simultaneous sequencing, merging de-confliction and spacing capacities are some of the proposed concepts currently being considered.
January 2007: US Army awards IAI a new SBIR contract for the project called “Simulation-Based Training Approach to Cross-Cultural Training.”
IAI receives a new SBIR contract from the US Army for the proposal named “Simulation-Based Training Approach to Cross-Cultural Training.” We propose an innovative simulation-based cross-cultural training environment, where trainees learn skills through compelling interactive stories. For this purpose, our approach will utilize (a) Interactive Pedagogical Drama (IPD) based adaptable training to create interactive stories where trainees interact with the characters in a realistic, narrative-driven, story-based setting; (b) intelligent agent-based infrastructure to model believable role-playing characters with motivations, attitudes and emotions; and (c) SCORM-compliant web-based distance learning infrastructure to deliver accessible training content.
January 2007: Wright Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Experiment Exploited, Simulation Based, and Distributed Tool for Injury Assessment.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from Wright Patterson Air Force Base for the proposal named “Experiment Exploited, Simulation Based, and Distributed Tool for Injury Assessment.” Intelligent Automation, Inc. proposes to develop an innovative tool for injury assessment that will systematically analyze and model huge amounts of experimental/simulation data in biodynamics by exploiting established injury models and criteria currently used. Our proposed tool will be developed from synergistic combination of experimental exploitation, simulation approximation, and distributed computation.
January 2007: US Army awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “A General Framework of Image Fusion for Concealed Weapon Detection.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from the US Army for the proposal named “A General Framework of Image Fusion for Concealed Weapon Detection.” Image fusion has demonstrated its effectiveness for remote sensing in general and concealed weapon detection (CWD) in particular. Although a number of research efforts have been made in this area, several issues still remain.
January 2007: Wright Patterson Air Force Base awards IAI a new SBIR Phase I contract for the project called “Secure Web Interfaces to Database.”
IAI receives a new SBIR Phase I contract from Wright Patterson Air Force Base for the proposal named “Secure Web Interfaces to Database.” The food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the responsible agency for ensuring the safety our nation’s blood supply. CBER with the Public Heath Service (PHS) identifies potential errors or threats to blood safety through developing adequate technical standards to implement zero risk transmission of infectious disease.