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July 2010: AFRL awards IAI a contract to develop a full-field, high temperature strain and displacement measurement for validation of high-speed air and spacecraft components and structures.

IAI has been awarded a new Air Force contract entitled “Monochromatic Light Illuminated High-Speed Digital Image Correlation (MLI-HS-DIC) System for Full-Field, High Temperature Strain and Displacement Measurement.”  High temperature deformation and strain are important measures for characterizing behaviors of structural components under high temperature condition. Measuring full-field, high temperature deformation and strain can lead to a better understanding structural and material response, damage initiation, progressive damage, and ultimately limit state attainment in moderately high temperature material systems In an earlier study for AFRL, IAI demonstrated the feasibility of the MLI-HS-DIC approach for high temperature full-field strain and deformation measurements. In this effort, IAI will improve the MLI-HS-DIC design and make an operational prototype that is close to the real test set-up being used in the Air Force for structural mechanics test. The success of this research effort will result in the development of a novel technique that will provide rapid and accurate measurement strain and displacement under high temperature conditions with applications in validation of high-speed air and spacecraft components and structures.

July 2010: Army awards IAI a new contract to develop mechanisms for coordinated responses through knowledge sharing in mobile agent-based intrusion detection.

IAI has been awarded a new Army contract entitled “Security Enhanced Mobile Agent-Based Intrusion Detection and Response System for Coordinated Attacks” to investigate the development of mechanisms by which mobile agents can formulate a coordinated response to a threat. With the rapid increase in connectivity and accessibility of networked information systems, attackers become more and more sophisticated and distributed in nature. Existing intrusion detection approaches are not efficient enough to track down and detect these coordinated attacks. In this effort IAI will develop a concept for novel mobile agent-based intrusion detection system by taking advantages of proactive and collaborative features of both stationary and mobile agents. Our objective is to accurately detect coordinated distributed attacks taking into consideration agent communication security and trust. The framework will enable integration of existing intrusion detection mechanisms/algorithms. Efficient inter-agent communication security and trust management mechanisms will be also developed to ensure system reliability and security.

June 2010: ONR awards IAI new contract to develop an information system for uncovering deception in unstructured data.

IAI has received a new contract from the Navy entitled “The Deceptive Language Processing Framework: Fusing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Deception Discovery” to develop information technology to discover acts of deceptions in unstructured communications. The exponential growth of text-based communication associated with the Internet has lead to a vast increase in the amount of unstructured messages that open source intelligence needs to process. This increase has lead to the need to develop methods for facilitating the detection of deception in various forms of text-based messages, from chat rooms, emails, weblogs, to text messaging. Methods are required to discover hidden messages, hostile disinformation, and author misrepresentation. To address the critical need of marrying theoretical and computational approaches to deception detection,  in this effort  IAI will work jointly with Cornell University to  to develop a novel Deceptive Language Processing (DLP) framework for deception analysis of large-scale quantities of text. DLP synthesizes social and psychological theory with computational techniques (e.g., natural language processing, data mining) for modeling the relationships between discourse and deception in its various forms.

June 2010: ONR awards IAI new contract to investigate approaches for translation of mission directives into behaviors of a distributed autonomous undersea sensing system.

IAI received a new contract from the Navy entitled “Real-Time In-Situ Adaptation of Decision Parameters for Undersea Target Tracking in a Sensor Field” to develop an approach to translate a "mission control directive" resulting from a warfighter's selected course of action, into a set of rules by which to control the thresholds for the execution of the set of behaviors available to the distributed sensing system. Network-centric command and control of complex military missions (e.g., anti-submarine warfare, collaborative mine hunting, etc.) calls for cost-effective designs that can dynamically tradeoff multiple conflicting objectives. Often these optimizations have to be carried out at a higher level, and the associated control directives have to be disseminated down to a distributed system, thereby, influencing its behavior. In this effort, working jointly with Penn State University will identify a viable concept for the specification of a mission level control directive in a manner which both captures the reasonable expectations of the warfighter relative to the competing performance objectives and does so in a manner that allows the automata to adaptively and locally manage the thresholds for actual behavior set available to it. IAI will develop a mathematical formulation and algorithms for real-time in-situ decision-parameter adaptation for undersea target tracking in a sensor field, and develop an enhanced composable cross-layer simulator for realistic undersea communication to validate the proposed algorithms.

June, 2010: IAI to support FAA’s NextGen definition and implementation under SE2020.

IAI, as a part of an  ITT-led team will  provide R&D support to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in  the development of advanced concepts involving the most challenging issues facing the FAA’s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) initiative to modernize the U.S. national airspace system. The ITT contract, titled System Engineering 2020 (SE2020), has a ceiling value with all options exercised of $1.4 billion, and a five-year base period of performance with option periods that can extend the contract to a total of 10 years.

Under SE2020, the ITT team will conduct leading edge concept development work across all dimensions of air traffic control including ground systems, avionics, aircraft, air traffic control rules and procedures, human factors, safety and security, environmental and standards. (Click here for full press release.)

June 2010: Army RDECOM selects IAI’s Networked GPS technology for the Commercialization Pilot Program.

The Army announced today that IAI’s technology for networked-GPS, developed under an RDECOM SBIR has been selected for further funding under the Army Commercialization Pilot Program (CPP). The objective of the CPP is to increase Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) technology transition and commercialization success to accelerate the fielding of capabilities to Soldiers and to benefit the nation through stimulated technological innovation, improved manufacturing capability, and increased competition, productivity, and economic growth. In this effort IAI in collaboration with General Dynamics, will develop and demonstrate field tested networked-GPS technology for integration with GD’s Futura wearable computer in support of the OneTess program. IAI’s networked-GPS approach offers the potential of highly accurate and low cost GPS positioning for warfighter location and tracking in tactical engagement simulation exercises.  IAI technology could have tremendous benefit, beyond OneTess, into other network centric applications such as logistics, mission planning and command and control applications where accurate low cost GPS positioning is critical.

May 2010: Army awards IAI a new contract to develop an approach for scalable discrete event simulations of asynchronous dynamic systems on massively parallel multi-core computers for MANET.

IAI has received a new contract from the Army entitled “High-Fidelity Network Simulation Using a Flexible Agent-Based Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Framework” to investigate the feasibility of developing a simulation framework to   enable the execution of large-scale (10,000s of communicating nodes), high fidelity, mobile, tactical (primarily wireless) network models in a parallel computing environment, where each computing node is a multi-core processor.  Highly parallel computing clusters hold out significant promise for improving fidelity of mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) simulations as well as increases in the scale of network simulations to hundreds or thousands of network nodes.   However, harnessing such systems for parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) of MANETs presents significant challenges in model programming and implementation, achieving efficient processor utilization, and physical layer modeling.  To address this need, in this effort IAI will investigate the feasibility of developing an agent-based simulation framework that provides, distributed multi-core processing, flexible time management, reuse and integration of existing and new network models and a high fidelity physical layer simulation of carrier recovery, synchronization, demodulation, and decoding, and signal propagation. IAI anticipates that this new framework will result in a new high-fidelity scalable MANET simulation capability.

May 2010: Navy awards IAI a new contract to investigate the development of improved antisubmarine warfare (ASW) sonobuoy location techniques in a GPS denied environment.

IAI has received a new contract from the Navy entitled “Improved Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) Sonobuoy Location Technique in Denied GPS Environment.” to develop an innovative sonobuoy location system that can operate at any altitude when the ASW platform is operating in a GPS denied environmentSonobuoy constitutes a key sensory component in modern anti-submarine warfare (ASW) by performing crucial tasks such as reconnaissance under water using sonar. In order to obtain accurate information about the location of possible submarines, it is necessary to know the position of these sonobuoys at all times. However, in GPS-denied situations, alternate methods are necessary to localize the sonobuoys for extended periods of time on the scale of 8-12 hrs at a stretch. In this effort IAI will investigate the feasibility of using RF ranging techniques for the sonobuoy positioning system in conjunction with buoy drift model analysis.

May 2010: AFRL awards IAI a contract to develop technology that provides reliable, robust high-data-rate wireless links in harsh, rapidly-changing RF environments.

IAI has received a new contract from the Air Force entitled “Multi Objective Superposition Coding for Reliable Networks” to develop technology that provides reliable, robust high-data-rate wireless links in harsh, rapidly-changing RF environments, and maintaining link stability without sacrificing capacity. Technology developed in this effort is focused on applications such as airborne networks where channel conditions are not stationary, and where capacity-achieving techniques for one channel condition result in severely degraded capacity rates under different channel conditions   In an initial feasibility study conducted for ARFL, IAI developed and demonstrated a superposition coding (SPC) technique that enables a wireless network to maintain reliable low rate links in high dynamic SNR range environments while allowing high SNR links to receive information with high data rate. Using the properties of superposition coding we developed and implemented a network protocol that allows each node to broadcast its low data rate information to its neighboring nodes while the node sends regular traffic over the network using the legacy routing protocol (for both low and high rate data streams). Building on these initial results, in this follow on effort IAI will build a superposition coding transceiver on an FPGA and design a network MAC and routing protocol that exploits the benefits of superposition coding in high dynamic SNR range environments.  The hardware will be tested and evaluated in the Common Open research Emulator (CORE) developed by Boeing, a member of the IAI team for this effort.

May 2010: PEOSTRI awards IAI a contract for developing asynchronous distributed GPS technology to support the TRMC NII S&T program.

IAI has received a contract from PEOSRTI  to develop an Asynchronous Distributed GPS System (ADGPS) to improve GPS-based positioning accuracy in a  areas where GPS reception is unavailable or severely degraded in one or more localized areas. In IAI’s ADGPS system, connected nodes share raw observables and RF-based inter-node ranges to locate each node on the network with high reliability. By fusing land-based RF ranges with traditional GPS ranging techniques, we will augment traditional COTS GPS receivers with significantly improved positioning capabilities, resulting in more robust positioning for T&E applications. Furthermore, the proposed ADGPS system will support GPS/INS integration, so that individual GPS nodes may be coupled with an IMU for improved performance though multipath mitigationAnd noise mitigation.  Research conducted in this effort will support DOD’s Test Resource Management Center’s Non-Intrusive Instrumentation Science and Technology Initiatives.

May 2010: AFRL awards IAI a contract for developing technology for assurance validation of commercial products containing IPv6 transition and tunneling mechanisms on the Air Force Network.

IAI has received  a contract from the Air  Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) entitled “An Adaptive and Extendible Assurance Assessment and Validation Tool for IPv6 Transition Mechanisms” to develop a solution to validate that IPv6 transition and tunneling mechanisms are only utilized by authentic and authorized users. IAI’s comprehensive security management and validation tool developed in this effort, called JANASSURE, will aid the network administrator to effectively manage IPv6 transition mechanisms.  JANASSURE will adopt probe-based and penetration-based approaches to detect dual-stack nodes and IPv6 tunnels in networks. In feasibility study conducted in an earlier effort for AFRL, IAI showed that JANASSURE can correctly detect the existence of IPv6 transition mechanisms in a real enterprise network and networks configured on test-bed. The experiment results also showed that JANASSURE can accurately generate the IPv4 topology and IPv6 topology of networks. In this follow-on effort IAI will extend JANASSURE by applying automated reasoning technologies such as Bayesian Network in security management and validation of JANASSURE, and make JANASSURE a comprehensive security management tool for IPv6 transition mechanisms. JANASSURE will help the network administrator to conduct static risk evaluation, dynamic attack analysis and damage assessment, and plan counter-measures against attacks.

May 2010: Navy awards IAI contract to develop technology for Multi-Enclave Federation and Management of Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) Service Registry.

IAI has been awarded a contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, entitled “Standardizing a Multi-Enclave Federated UDDI for Use in a Dynamic Service Oriented Architecture.”In a web-service oriented environment, the UDDI Registry is the element of middleware which supports service description and discovery; without such middleware it is not possible to operate. Current COTS UDDI vendors do not support dynamic federation of registries in the Navy’s unique distributed, disconnected, and low limit bandwidth environment. Furthermore, there is also a need for SOA policy enforcement and policy administration management services across the federated UDDI registries, to fulfill governance, security and information assurance requirements. In an early feasibility study IAI developed protocol designs and associated software infrastructure designs which will support UDDI registry access in a net-centric environment. This follow-on effort is focused on implementation of protocols and software in a prototyping effort, and standards activity to contribute to the UDDI specifications in this area.

May 2010: Army awards IAI a new contract to investigate the feasibility of developing a remote PTSD monitoring and diagnosis systems based on correlations between acoustic characteristic and patient’s mental health.

IAI received a new contract, funded by OSD, entitled “Remote PTSD Monitoring and Diagnosis Using an Automated System.” Previous studies on mental illness such as depression and bipolar illness have suggested that specific speech and language processing deficits can be caused by these illnesses. In this effort, IAI in collaboration with Old Dominion University and University of Vermont will investigate the feasibility of developing a remote PTSD monitoring and diagnosis systems based on correlations between acoustic characteristics and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). IAI’s system will include a robust approach to extracting relevant acoustic parameters, separating the utterances into phonemes and a feature selection process. A machine-based regression model will then be used to process these relevant features and estimate a mental health score that can be used as a reference for clinicians to identify and treat PTSD at an early stage.  If successful this approach can provide a novel and valuable approach to providing new data to clinicians for early identification of PTSD.

April 2010: Army Research Lab awards IAI a contract to develop a low-profile and conformal wideband antennas for SIGINT, EW and communications systems located on airborne and ground mobile platforms.

IAI received a new contract from the Army entitled “Ultra-Wideband, Low-Profile, Electrically-Small Antennas Utilizing Artificial Magnetic Conductors.” In an earlier effort, based on an initial analysis of designs that are low-profile, wideband, IAI showed the feasibility of developing a new class of low-profile electrically-small ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna using artificial magnetic conductors, for air and ground platform operations. The primary focus of this follow-on contract is to develop a fieldable prototype of its proposed compact UWB antenna and to perform an experimental validation to verify that it meets the DOD program requirements. To optimize the antenna placement on targeted vehicles in real environments, full-wave FDTD simulations of the proposed antenna in the presence of a detailed full-scaled model of the mobile platform will be performed. The findings of this process will also be experimentally verified by carrying out measurements on real models of the antenna and its supporting platform. Furthermore, to develop a commercially viable product, a suitable antenna package capable of meeting harsh environmental and physical conditions will also be developed.

April 2010: Army Research Lab awards IAI a contract to develop a low-profile and conformal wideband antennas for SIGINT, EW and communications systems located on airborne and ground mobile platforms.

IAI received a new contract from the Army entitled “Ultra-Wideband, Low-Profile, Electrically-Small Antennas Utilizing Artificial Magnetic Conductors.” In an earlier effort, based on an initial analysis of designs that are low-profile, wideband, IAI showed the feasibility of developing a new class of low-profile electrically-small ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna using artificial magnetic conductors, for air and ground platform operations. The primary focus of this follow-on contract is to develop a fieldable prototype of its proposed compact UWB antenna and to perform an experimental validation to verify that it meets the DOD program requirements. To optimize the antenna placement on targeted vehicles in real environments, full-wave FDTD simulations of the proposed antenna in the presence of a detailed full-scaled model of the mobile platform will be performed. The findings of this process will also be experimentally verified by carrying out measurements on real models of the antenna and its supporting platform. Furthermore, to develop a commercially viable product, a suitable antenna package capable of meeting harsh environmental and physical conditions will also be developed.

April 2010: Army awards IAI a contract for developing an integrated laser stabilization system for lightweight laser designators.

Laser designation plays an essential role in today’s high precision combat environment. However, the effectiveness of laser designators is limited by the ability of the user to hold/aim the laser on the target. Currently, heavy tripods are the only tools available to assist the warfighter in minimizing beam pointing error. Given the amount of gear carried by today’s warfighter, a compact, lightweight, and low power approach is needed to stabilize the laser designator without the need to carry additional equipment. Building on an earlier proof-of concept prototype system developed for Army, in this effort IAI will develop a miniaturized, highly rugged, reliable and low power laser steering component. IAI’s laser stabilization system is built upon the concept of steering the laser beam as opposed to steering the overall designator platform. This approach will allow us to achieve the desired pointing stabilization with minimal additional weight and power consumption. IAI’s team on this effort includes Vectronix and New Scale Technologies.

April 2010: CSSI and IAI Win FAA SE-2020 Contract.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded Intelligent Automation Incorporated (IAI) , together with prime contractor CSSI, Inc., a $280 million contract to perform engineering work of national importance to help transform and modernize the nation’s airspace system into the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). The $280 million contract is the first of up to six that will be awarded under an umbrella structure called System Engineering 2020 (SE-2020). SE-2020 has a ceiling of approximately $7 billion, making it the largest contract in the FAA’s history.  Through SE-2020, CSSI and Intelligent Automation are positioned to leverage their experience to provide a broad range of Systems Engineering, Investment and Business Case Analysis, Planning, Forecasting and Business/Financial/Information Management support services.

The CSSI SE-2020 team includes leading technical experts MCR, Grant Thornton, Honeywell, Flatirons Solutions, ISI, Noblis, AS&T, IAI, AvMet and eSTS.  (Click here for full press release.)

April 2010: Navy awards IAI new contract to investigate the feasibility for developing portable nonlinear guided wave imaging system for composite missile structure inspection.

IAI has received a new contract from the Navy entitled “Hand-held Nonlinear Guided Wave Imaging System for Composite Missile Structure Inspection”, to develop a portable and reliable, low cost,  Non destructive Evaluation (NDE) system that can be carried to the field for quick and accurate inspection of fiber reinforced polymer composites.  Today, fiber reinforced polymer composites are increasingly used in aerospace and missile defense industries and are subject to damage during fatigue, mechanical impact, and aging in a service environment. Using nonlinear guided wave imaging, in this effort, IAI will develop a system that can detect small incipient damage in defects in both thin and thick planner orcurved composite structures. IAI’s approach will provide the ability to monitor large scale structures with complex geometries and is sensitive to detecting material micro-damage in inaccessible areas. Visualization of defect severity and location will be achieved using a physics-based damage mapping algorithm. Other key benefits of IAI’s approach include the ability to perform quick inspections, high probability of detection of both surface and subsurface, an full automation to enable reduced in training and ownership cost.

April 2010: Army awards IAI a new contract to continue the development of a multi-agent health management system for ground  vehicles.

IAI has received a new contract from the Army  entitled “Multi-Agent Health Management System” to continue the development of its Automated Algorithm Generator (A2G) framework. A2G is a comprehensive library of light-weight diagnostic/prognostic algorithms and a set of server-based tools that enable automated algorithm generation and unsupervised algorithm maintenance, based on fleet-wide statistics and trending. In this effort IAI will continue to enhance its initial prototype of A2G framework and will implement a full-scale A2G system for health management of ground vehicles. Enhancements of A2G will include its implementation on IAI CybelePro agent framework, development and integration of an extensive set of advanced diagnostics and prognostics algorithms and the integration the A2G system into an adaptive service discovery framework recently developed by IAI. IAI collaborators on this effort include Wright State University and General Motors.

April 2010: Army awards IAI the second phase of a contract to develop a sensing system for testing effectiveness of chemical suits.

IAI has received a new contract from the Army to continue research for the development of a novel reliable, miniature, unobtrusive light weight Accurate Real-time Methyl Salicylate Sensing System (ARMSSS) for testing effectiveness of chemical suits. The ARMSSS will collect real-time data and accurately identifies chemical break-through sites in man-in-stimulant testing, where Methyl Salicylate (MeS) is used as the simulant for chemical agents.  The approach will utilize quartz crystal microbalance, chemical capacitance and radio frequency identification technology. The key feature of IAI’s approach lies in the design that exploits the advantages of both the sensing techniques for high sensitivity and selectivity for real time detection of MeS.  Application of this technology developed by IAI include homeland security and military needs (explosive, chemical agent detection) industrial processing by materials analysis (mineral resources, impurities, quality control, sorting), biomedical studies, pharmaceutical monitoring, and space exploration.

April 2010: AFRL awards IAI a contract to develop and evaluate an elastic wave propagation-based structural health monitoring system, for composite engine structure damage monitoring.

IAI has received a new contract from the Air Force Research Labs entitled “Build-In Damage State Detection and Localization Capabilities for Composite Engine Structures.” Fiber reinforced polymer composites are finding increased applications in the aircraft and aerospace industries due to their superior mechanical properties and light weight. However, composite materials are subject to damage during fatigue, mechanical impact, and aging in a service environment. Early detection of these failure process and hazards is desired for improving structure safety and increase fleet readiness. In this effort IAI will develop a networked high temperature ultrasonic sensor system with a “virtual inspection” simulation tool to monitor and inspect the condition of composite material. IAI’s proposed approach utilizes a network of miniature, self-powered, wireless, high temperature, and conformal piezoelectric sensors, attached to the surface of the composite, to detect and locate damage/defects by tracking their growth. The proposed work builds on IAI’s  extensive experience in wave mechanics simulation and health monitoring sensor network for composites.

March 2010: ONR awards IAI a new contract to investigate the feasibility of developing a distributed smart control and health management framework for next generation electric ships.

IAI has received a new contract from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to conduct research and development into the development of new technologies to monitor and adjust energy generation, energy storage, and system loads for enhanced shipboard performance and health. Working jointly with the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), in this effort IAI will develop a  novel, distributed, wireless, control framework for the Next generation all-electric ship that will use a combination of decentralized control algorithms with distributed autonomous intelligent agents to achieve advanced reconfiguration, fault detection and mitigation. Integral to this effort, will also be the development of embedded, active probing sensors, and COTS rapid response SiC-based sensors and actuators. These rapid response diagnostics and actuators along with distributed agents will yield optimal power flow and mitigate critical faults within bounds of time criticality.

March 2010: IAI Wins 2nd Place in DC101's National Kidney Foundation Chili Cook-off!

After a day of hard work slinging chili last Saturday, our chili cook-off team won 2nd place in the “People’s Choice” category! To pull this off, we brought in over $1,100 of donations in support of the National Kidney Foundation. In addition to the $151 we collected at the IAI Chili Day, our team collected about $1,000 from the donations of people attending the cook-off (often in 25 cent increments!).



2010 cook-off team (from left): David Mayhew, Nikhil Nigam, Ankit Tyagi, Shannon Mayhew, Mark Stevenson, Justin Antinarella, Jakob Henriksson, and Tim Judkins.

March 2010: Army awards IAI a contract to conduct research and development in visual measurement based navigation.

IAI has received a new contract from the Army, entitled “Visual Measurement-based Autonomous Navigation”, to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a new Visual Navigation System (VNS)  for a warfighter that can serve as a robust alternate to current GPS/IMU based systems. The prototype system called SeeStar, will be developed as a helmet mounted system that  will uses three camera, two forward looking cameras and one off angle  to provide stereo vision and a wide angle view at high resolution. Motion estimation algorithms developed in this effort, will combine high resolution wide field of view images, information from blurred images caused by uneven and extraneous motions and landmark recognition-based tracking to provide highly accurate and robust position location information.

March 2010: ONR awards IAI a new contract to develop synchronization and ranging transceivers for integration with distributed radars concepts for high resolution through-the wall imaging.

ONR has awarded IAI a new contract to develop accurate ranging and synchronization technologies. Funded under the Navy and Marine Core Science and Technology long range BAA, in this effort IAI will develop synchronization and ranging transceivers. These transceivers will be integrated with distributed radar concepts for high resolution through-the wall imaging that are currently being developed under ONR’s Transparent Urban Structures Program (TUS). The objective of the TUS program is to improve the collection, understanding, and dissemination of intelligence for the urban conflict. Through TUS, ONR seeks to develop technology which assists the warfighter in understanding the urban terrain of interest by detecting and classifying threats, both inside buildings and underground, and by maximizing situational awareness inside structures. By providing sufficiently accurate ranging and synchronization capability, technology developed in this effort can significantly improve the imaging resolution of distributed through-wall radars.

March 2010: Army awards IAI a contract to develop a prototype medical capability simulator interface tool for OneSAF.

IAI has received a new contract funded by OSD,  for a proposal entitled “Tactical Medical Technology Evaluator for OneSAF”,  to develop an effective Medical Capability Simulation and Evaluation Architecture (MCSEA) for evaluating the impact of emerging medical capabilities. While there are numerous emerging combat casualty care technologies that offer the promise to impact battlefield mortality, the development, approval, and fielding of these technologies is a time and resource intensive process.  MCSEA tool developed by IAI and its collaborator Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE), will provide new simulation and modeling tools that will enable rapid assessment of the impact of a next generation combat casualty care technology, prior to their deployment, thus potentially reducing life cycle costs. MCSEA will provide systematic architectural approaches and interfaces to allow OneSAF simulations to interact with medical simulation models in order to evaluate the impact of combat casualty care medical capabilities such as casualty evacuation, treatment and transportation. MCSEA will utilize IAI’s Cybele agent middleware infrastructure for integrating tactical medical logistics models provided by Teledyne, models of emerging combat casualty technologies, and OneSAF. Understanding the impact of the new technology, early in the design/development phase will benefit the DOD by enabling the definition of more effective requirements, efficient resource allocation to those technologies with the greatest promise, and identifying key areas of future technological need.

March 2010: Navy awards IAI a new contract to develop GPS/INS integration algorithms (and units) for precise relative positioning to support the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (N-UCAS) Program.

IAI has been awarded a new contract entitled “Relative Ultra Tight IMU/GPS Integration”  to develop new  technologies for  a tightly-coupled GPS/INS navigation system for precise relative positioning, a next-generation ultra tightly-coupled GPS/INS for maximum mitigation against GPS outages and jamming, and a novel GPS/INS Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for plug-and-play GPS positioning. The new GPS/INS software and hardware developed in this effort will offer new levels of performance, reliability, and flexibility unmatched in today's off-the-shelf GPS/INS systems.

March 2010: Air Force awards IAI a new contract to conduct research and development in using Wi-Fi for assured PNT and integrity verification.

IAI has received a new contract from the Air Force, for a proposal entitled “Opportunistic Positioning Using Network of Wi-Fi Enabled GPS”, to investigate the feasibility of developing a new approach to improve GPS accuracy of a network of Wi-Fi enabled GPS nodes. The next generation of position-aware/position-dependent technologies will require a highly accurate positioning solution, even when operating within inhospitable GPS environments. Networked GPS technology, augmented with land-based Wi-Fi ranging techniques, offers a viable solution to improving the accuracy, reliability, and effectiveness of today's GPS technology. However, there is currently no fielded technology for exploiting the collective knowledge of a network of GPS receivers for robust positioning. In this R&D effort,  IAI will investigate the feasibility of developing new technology, wherein a network of Wi-Fi enabled GPS  nodes can share GPS data and Wi-Fi based inter-node ranges to locate each network node with high reliability. By fusing land-based RF ranges with traditional GPS ranging techniques, we will augment traditional COTS GPS receivers with significantly improved positioning capabilities, thus resulting in more robust positioning. Furthermore, the proposed Wi-Fi GPS system will support GPS/INS integration, so that individual GPS nodes may be coupled with an IMU for improved performance.

This new effort builds on a growing portfolio of IAI’s research and development efforts in developing for high accuracy low cost positioning and tracking systems to the growing needs of DOD and the commercial sector.

March 2010: Air Force awards IAI a new contract to conduct research and development in the area of self shielding systems and attack surface mutations.

IAI has received a new contract from the Air Force, for a proposal entitled “Self-Shielding Network Architecture Integrating Mutation Paradigms”, to investigate the feasibility of developing novel approaches to prevent cyber attacks. The current static nature of systems and networks allows attackers to gather intelligence, perform planning, and then execute attacks at will.   If instead, we remove this underlying static nature and make the network dynamic, many classes of attacks can be prevented by making them too difficult to carry out without detection as well as by reducing their probability and level of success.  Building on this idea, in this contract IAI will develop novel network architecture to induce and manage dynamics in the network.  By creating a System-level Dynamic Network Architecture (SDNA) that allows the use of multiple techniques in a complementary manner, the system will more effectively prevent and respond to attacks.  SDNA will dynamically mutate various network components such as access control, routing, addressing, applications, etc. in a coordinated way.  SDNA will also allow static parts of the network to be presented as dynamic parts to users and attackers, while limiting the modifications needed by end users and applications by acting transparently and automatically.

March 2010: Air Force awards IAI a new contract to develop an integrated agent-based cyber behavior anomaly detection and analysis approach for enterprise networks and workstations.

Cyber behavior anomaly detection has been a critical issue in today’s computer networks. As business operations and assets are increasingly under attacks from multiple points, from both inside and outside, protecting data, software and hardware from malwares, fraud and/or malicious activities is, now more than ever, a “need” and not just a “concern” for the enterprise networks. Existing security devices like firewalls are largely ineffective against the insider threats. Traditional intrusion detection systems require prior knowledge of attacks, have high false alarm rates, and need ongoing maintenance of databases, hence lose effectiveness in today’s high-speed networks. To address this problem, in this contract IAI will investigate the feasibility of developing an integrated agent-based cyber-behavior anomaly detection and analysis approach for enterprise networks and workstations to detect and analyze cyber behavior anomalies in both network and host levels. Anticipated benefits of the proposed system will include reliable and high accurate detection, scalability to high-speed networks, aggregate detection over multiple routers/gateways, and reduced false alarms.

March 2010: Air Force awards IAI a contract to conduct research into the development of a reconfigurable micro-electronic-scan radar sensor for airborne hazard see-and-avoid.

Sense-and-Avoid operation capabilities are critical for the operation of UAVs in national airspace. Developing a radar sensor having potential to meet the size, weight and power (SWaP) and detection/tracking requirements is a real challenge. The Air Force Research Labs has awarded IAI a research contract to develop a new reconfigurable, integrated, electronic scanning radar platform. The new sensor will operate on dual-frequency bands (S band and C-band) with Doppler analysis capability. IAI will use a Reconfigurable Digital Radar Transceiver (RDRT), which provides flexibility in mission specific radar waveform design, without hardware modifications, and on-board digital signal processing capability to analyze radar returns. The RDRT designed by IAI will  capable of simultaneously synthesizing/ processing 32 digital channels with 10’s of MHz bandwidth in each channel, making it ideal for fast scanning array radar and Digital beam Forming (DBF).  IAI team on this effort includes University of Oklahoma.

March 2010: US DOT awards IAI new contract to improve traffic signal synchronization using wireless sensor networks.

IAI received a new research contract from the US Department of Transportation for a proposal entitled “A Wireless Sensor Network with Accurate Time Synchronization and Wide Area Coverage for Traffic Signal Analysis.”  In this effort IAI will conduct research and prototype development of a wireless sensor network-based traffic signal analysis tool, which will utilize the state-of-the art traffic sensors to from a reconfigurable network for collection and analysis of system-wide traffic condition data. A knowledge-based signal analysis expert system will also be developed to automatically diagnose/detect signal phase/timing issues.  Technology developed in this effort will serve as a decision support tool for traffic engineers and transportation agencies for optimize/resolve traffic issues as a result of suboptimal signal control.

March 2010: US DOT awards IAI a contract to develop new technologies for structural health monitoring of bridges using multi-sensor wireless networks.

IAI received a new research contract from the US DOT for a proposal entitled “A Novel Multi-Sensor Wireless Network for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring.” In this effort IAI will research develop and test a multi-sensor wireless network system for bridge and pavement structure health monitoring. The system will incorporates various types of sensors and provide early warnings of critical structural problems through cooperative network sensor data processing and diagnosis. Communicate with RFID sensors will enable extended sensing capabilities. The system will be designed for minimal human intervention, to potentially achieve real-time “smart” health monitoring of primary and secondary bridge structures, and measure other parameters for the safety of bridge operation. IAI anticipates that the system can also be used for monitoring conditions of concrete from fresh mix for quality control purpose to aged structures for damage assessment.

March 2010: Air Force Research Laboratories award IAI new contract to develop a Mixed-Initiative, Distributed, and Simultaneous Planning Framework.

IAI received a new research contract from the Air Force to develop a framework for selection/generation of a suitable plan representation and mixed-imitative distributed simultaneous planning and extended problem solving capabilities in network-centric environments.  IAI approach called “We-Plan” includes an integrated architecture employing various inter-connected constituent components, (e.g., problem specification, situational assessment, resource allocation, scheduling, execution monitoring, and validation); an investigation into crosscutting technologies (e.g., mixed-initiative plan representation) for the underlying algorithms, information and control flow; and  the design of a suitable scenario to demonstrate proof-of-feasibility of key enabling concepts.

February 2010: Army awards IAI a new contract to develop new technologies for data abstraction to support human cognitive capabilities.

IAI received a new contract from the Army for a proposal entitled “Rich Mechanisms to Support Context-aware Data Abstractions: Capturing the Relationship of Data to Abstraction Levels with the Context-aware Data Abstractor (CADA).”   To facilitate effective net centric operations, CADA will support the user in making sense out of the quantities of data, originating in flows that are streaming through the networks.  CADA will address current limitations of human decision making for processing and using the abundance of information that is now available over the GIG through a Service Oriented Architecture –based access. Key support for human cognitive capabilities will be made available by organizing the data and presenting the user with abstractions that describe data at a high level.

February 2010: Navy awards IAI a new contract to investigate the development of a human activity discovery system based on linguistic a human activity language and statistical grammar model.

IAI received a new contract from the Navy entitled “A Statistical Grammar Approach for Human Activity Discovery from Video” to investigate the feasibility of using a human activity language and statistical grammar models to estimate human body pose and anthropometry from video data. The focus of this effort is on developing new technology for persistent surveillance. A key element of IAI’s approach is the formulation of the 3D human body pose estimation problem as a local optimal search in the pose space by extracting the silhouette of the foreground human figure using a model-based approach. The human activity understanding problem is then converted into a high level multidimensional data classification problem by segmenting basic human movements to a set of parallel symbol streams, which are identified using state dependent parallel synchronous grammar system.

IAI’s collaborators on this effort include the Computer Vision Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, and University of Texas, Arlington.

February 2010: Army awards IAI a new contract for the development of an efficient distributed framework for adaptive service discovery in mobile ad-hoc networks.

IAI received a new contract from the Army to design and develop an enhanced Adaptive Service Discovery (ASD) framework to support efficient fault tolerant and reliable service discovery in mobile networks. The framework will take into consideration heterogeneity of nodes, their varying capabilities, limitations and goals, and will enhance peer-to-peer collaboration allowing nodes to customize service discovery protocols, service advertisement protocols and advertisement caching protocols. IAI’s approach will use semantic service descriptions to deliver a powerful flexible and extendable solution for representing services in mobile environments and will enable nodes to leverage aspects such as trust-based node to node relationships, dynamic service composition, proactive/preemptive service discovery and adaptive service dissemination.

February 2010: IAI to develop and test concept of operations for UAV flights in the civilian airspace.

Under an Analex Corporation led effort,  IAI and  Analex will support NASA Glenn in exploring concepts for the integration of  Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) operations in the civilian airspace.  Such operations are currently prohibited because the safe operation of UAS with civilian aircraft has not yet been well defined.  The team will explore concepts that will allow safe interoperability of UAS and civilian aircraft, testing the feasibility of the concept using NASA’s Airspace Concepts Evaluation System (ACES) software.

January 2010: NASA awards IAI contract to develop an integrated Testbed for Environmental Analysis of NextGen Concepts.

AI working jointly with Wyle Labs will begin the development of an analysis testbed to integrate simulation tools, such as ACES, with aviation environmental effects models, such as the FAA’s Aviation Environmental Design Toolkit (AEDT), to provide a “360-degree” evaluation of new operational concepts. Initial efforts will focus on using this tool to conduct the integrated performance/environmental study of airborne merging and spacing concept at the Atlanta metroplex. This effort supports the environmental modeling aspect of the Airspace Program, and is anticipated to advance the state-of-the-practice one step further by producing a straightforward method of combining performance and environmental analysis.

January 2010: US Army awards IAI a new contract to develop reliable and accurate data recording technology for assessing parachute performance and use, during airdrop missions.

IAI received a new contract from the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center - Natick entitled “Wireless Parachute Data Recorder with RFID Tracking Capability”.  For this effort IAI is teaming with Parks College Parachute Research Group, and Boeing Research and Technology to develop an innovative, ruggedized, wireless Parachute Data Recorder (PDR) based on Radio-frequency identification (RFID) and ZigBee wireless technologies.  The PDR will accurately capture, store and transmit data collected in relation to parachute usage and performance. This recorder will serve two purposes–acting as a log book for usage data and as a data acquisition unit to assess parachute performance.  The proposed design will include both, RFID technology for storage of typical parachute log book entries and a ZigBee based wireless down link for the denser performance data from sensors.   The main unit will be located in the pack tray and wireless load cells will be incorporated in the parachute risers. Wireless sensing modalities will minimize the functional impact and improve safety. The maintenance record supported by this recorder as well as the performance data will be useful for accident investigations.  Having a standard recorder for all parachute systems reduces the need for specialized testing for ongoing parachute design improvements.

Jan 2010: NASA Goddard awards IAI a new contract to develop a Digital, High bandwidth P-band radar Transceiver.

IAI received a new contract from the NASA Goddard entitled “Reconfigurable, Wideband Radar Transceiver and Antenna for P-band Stretch Processing”.  This effort is focused on developing a reconfigurable digital waveform synthesizer and processor capable of directly working at P-band without analog conversion; an embedded stretch processor framework and the design of a compact P-band antenna using high-contrast ceramic materials to cover 100’s of MHz of bandwidth. Technology developed in this effort will support NASA earth science missions including Biomass/ecosystems imaging.

January 2010: NASA awards IAI a new contract to develop a sensor management tool for use with NASA World Wind.

IAI received a new contract from the NASA entitled “A Sensor Management Tool (SMT) for Use with NASA World Wind”.  This effort is focused on developing a Sensor Management Tool (SMT) that supports the individual researcher in finding, accessing and managing sensor data, within a Community context. There is an increasing wealth of sensor data being collected through various deployments, including those of sensor webs, missions, etc. Meta-data describing the collected data can be based on different schemes; part of this effort is to introduce a Harmonization Meta-Model. SMT will utilize the Meta-Model in organizing the data; additional utilities and wizards extend SMT’s functionality. SMT will provide data visualization via the leveraging of NASA World Wind capabilities.

January 2010: IAI receives a new contract to develop a multi-aircraft batch simulation tool for NASA Langley.

Under a subcontract to Raytheon Company, IAI will support the development of a dual-use fast-time/real-time simulation tool that can serve as both, a standalone analysis testbed as well as a target generator to support research conducted in  NASA Langley’s Air Traffic Operations Laboratory (ATOL).  The tool shall include NextGen air traffic management functions as well as an embedded target generator, wind and other weather effects, a graphical visualization environment, and a scenario generation system.  When completed, the tool will significantly enhance the ability of ATOS to handle complex scenarios using both live and computer-generated air traffic.


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