IEDs, made infamous in Iraq and Afghanistan, are a potential terrorist weapon anywhere in the world. Most counter-IED technologies are targeted at the point of the blast. DEFUSE can interdict and [...]
A key task of a commander is that of Battlefield Visualization – understanding the situation in order to make decisions to achieve operational goals. Central to this process is managing the [...]
The intelligence analysis task of anticipating crises and providing decision makers with reasonable (supportable, explainable) possible futures is extremely difficult. To perform this task, a [...]
To be effective, military and interagency planners must consider the full spectrum of activities that could achieve operational goals, and must understand the effects of using those actions on a [...]
Building and using agent-based models is often impractical, in part due to the cost of including ex-pensive subject matter experts (SMEs) in the de-velopment process. In this paper, we describe a [...]
This research explores the feasibility of performing passive information capture on voice data in order to analyze and classify the contents of interpersonal communication. The general form of [...]
This paper describes an agent-based framework for building models of social power structures. Two goals of the framework are generality across a wide range of power structures and the ability for [...]
Multi-hypothesis, kinematic trackers are the state-of-the-art in automated GMTI data processing. These systems are not designed to recognize long duration behaviors and under complex conditions [...]