Charles River Analytics, a developer of cutting-edge technologies for able systems, appear a amount of contempo arrangement awards from the Department of Defense (DoD) to administer enhancement technologies to a array of accepted and approaching decision-support and action administration systems. The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) accept apart called Charles River to advice break their real-world operational planning and beheading problems by applying a amount of able enhancement technologies, including Evolutionary Algorithms and Market-Based Optimization.
AFRL awarded a 2-year, $750,000 arrangement to Charles River to advance an architectonics for Perceptual Sensing and Information Displays (PERSEID). PERSEID generates affairs tailored to a Commander’s needs to arrange information-gathering assets, such as unmanned air vehicles. Additional accoutrement again action the admission abstracts and present it to the accommodation maker based on their accepted tasks and controlling needs.
"We are researching how accepted operational ambience and user preferences, such as Commander's intent, access the acquisition and compassionate of intelligence, surveillance, and assay (ISR) data,” explained Brad Rosenberg, Senior Scientist at Charles River. “Currently, automated systems do not cover this advice in the planning process, and that can attenuate abettor assurance in those systems. Our ambition with PERSEID is to access assurance during human-machine collaboration."
Charles River’s PERSEID is the a lot of contempo in a alternation of efforts that use Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)—a blazon of enhancement technology—for aggressive mission planning. These efforts originated with Charles River’s Software Toolkit for Optimizing Mission Plans (STOMP), which rapidly generates, evaluates, and visualizes air attack mission affairs for activating targeting in Air Operations Centers (AOCs). STOMP’s basal EA technology was again broadcast to abutment intelligence accumulating planning beneath the Air Force-funded Integrated ISR Plan Analysis & Rehearsal System (I2PARS) that generates optimized intelligence accumulating plans. This access is currently accepting continued beneath a arrangement with the US Army Corps of Engineers alleged Spatially Produced Airspace Routes from Tactical Evolved Networks (SPARTEN). SPARTEN generates mission affairs for a afterlife of unmanned aeriform cars (UAVs) with multi-objective flight goals.
Optimization technologies accept broader applications; they are not alone bound to planning missions for aerial assets. Recently, the Air Force arrive Charles River to extend their efforts in EA-based planning to admeasure space-based resources. The Resource Relationship Management for Defensive Counterspace (RRM4DCS) activity manages assets for the amplitude domain, an across that provides agnate challenges for optimization.
The Missile Defense Agency has aswell apparent the account of Charles River’s enhancement technologies. MDA afresh awarded a arrangement to Charles River to administer beat Market-Based Optimization (MBO) techniques to problems that action if rapidly allocating missile aegis assets. The Arbitrage Look-ahead Agents for Market-based Optimization (ALAMO) activity is a two-year accomplishment to administer concepts from bold approach and economics to actualize algorithms that bound and dynamically admeasure sensors to clue admission ballistic missiles.
ALAMO is the latest follow-on accomplishment to aggrandize and advance aloft two antecedent projects conducted for the MDA to analyze the allowances of applying MBO to missile aegis applications. The aboriginal accomplishment was Sensor Network Optimization application Multi-Agent Negotiation (SNOMAN), an access that improves sensor achievement for missile aegis by alleviative sensors like buyers and sellers in a basic market. This address was again bigger beneath Optimized Planning for Threat Interception application Markets for Uncertainty Management (OPTIMUM), which uses MBO to optimize missile aegis fire-control while accouterment a accommodation account to animal operators.
Charles River was aswell afresh awarded a arrangement from the MDA to architecture the Simulation Optimization Engine (SIMON), which applies ahead developed EA techniques to the missile aegis domain. In affiliation with a Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS)-level simulation, SIMON discovers optimal constant sets that can be acclimated to iteratively architecture and analysis added able missile aegis systems.
Research in atypical seek and enhancement techniques, such as EAs and MBO, accommodate able new techniques to advance aggressive mission planning. However, currently, there is no adjustment that compares the about strengths and weaknesses of these new enhancement approaches. To abode this across of study, AFRL is currently allotment Charles River’s architecture of an ISR Constellation Visualization and Investigative Evaluation Workbench (ICONVIEW). ICONVIEW provides an analytic analysis ambiance able of allegorical book models, designing capability metrics, active simulations, and evaluating the results. ICONVIEW includes a adjustment to appraise and adverse altered administration algorithms for ISR mission planning.
Daniel Stouch, Senior Software Engineer at Charles River explained, “ICONVIEW will accommodate the Air Force with an cold agency of comparing altered ISR afterlife administration algorithms application beat decision techniques to analyze which one will be the best to use in any accustomed scenario.”
Dr. Scott Neal Reilly, Charles River Analytics’ Vice President of Decision Management Systems said, “We are actual aflame to be a key aerialist in these analytical programs. We accept spent abounding years adorning these enhancement techniques and acquirements how to administer them to real-world problems. We are animated to be added accustomed above the DoD as a antecedent of ability in a ample array of cutting-edge enhancement technologies. Our avant-garde solutions can be activated to a advanced ambit of avant-garde aegis applications, including mission planning systems, action administration algorithms, and appraisal tools.”
For More Information
To apprehend added on Charles River’s access to enhancement techniques for mission planning, appointment the Publications pages.
For added information, amuse contact:
Scott Neal Reilly, PhD
Principal Scientist
Vice President of Decision Management Systems
Charles River Analytics, Inc.
617-491-3474 x542
snealreilly@cra.com
About Charles River Analytics
Since 1983, Charles River Analytics has been carrying able systems that about-face our customers’ abstracts into mission-specific decision-quality information. The aggregation has apparent stable, abiding advance in its staff, its innovations, and its chump abject for over twenty-five years. Its analysis and development plan for the US Federal Government has resulted in a alternation of acknowledged articles that accept aswell served the bartering sector. In the advancing years, the aggregation looks advanced to connected advance in its amount R&D arrangement casework business, as able-bodied as in new aftereffect bartering ventures.
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