CyManII
Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII)- Department of Energy (DOE) will provide CyManII with $70M in 5 years to create economically viable, pervasive, and inconspicuous cybersecurity in American manufacturing to secure the digital supply chain and energy automation. The Institute is composed of 23 leading universities, 3 National Labs, and 50+ industry partners including CISCO, Schneider Electric, GE, and others. The projected budget is $120M for the 5 years. Mason is a Managing Partner (highest tier) and responsible for the East Cost Satellite Facility of the Institute.
DARPA SAFE-SIM Program
DARPA SAFE-SIM Program – Applying Analytical Process with Multiple Methods - The project is developing an integrated analytical process that ties multiple technical methods for analysis and evaluation of complex system and systems of systems. The team is investigating how to build a consistent logical notation for complex systems and tie to technical methods (e.g., graph theory, deep learning etc.) to help with closing feasible and infeasible paths and help answer analyst questions.
CUAS Sensor Fusion and Optimization Lines of Effort
Full-Spectrum Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Innovation and Integration (Air Force Central Command- Provide a UAV Sensor Testbed that has a rigorous analytical capability to predict Sensor Performance to improve Base protection from UAV threats.. C5I / SEOR is customizing the MUSCAT testbed infrastructure to provide a bespoke solution for established AFCENT requirements. The testbed will be capable of running detailed likely scenarios to evaluate and optimize sensor placement based on detection probabilities. In addition, future tasking will include incorporating Multi Sensor Fusion and platform analytics to assess swarm vs. single platforms as well as predict platform intent. SEOR is similarly customizing a Supply Chain Digital Twin and Dashboard for Resilient and Secure Defense-Critical Supply Chains.
NCMS Integrated Photonics For Sustained Military Operations
NCMS Integrated Photonics For Sustained Military Operations (National Center for Manufacturing Sciences) - The project is investigating the efficacy and advancing the technology readiness level (TRL) of low size, weight, and power, and low cost (SWaP-C) free-space optics (FSO) battlefield communications using chip-scale integrated photonics technologies. This will include assessing potential in the context of performance requirements flowing from system engineering of potential use-cases associated with Army battlefield applications in communications and PNT.
ODNI/ARLIS: Recombinant AI
ODNI/ARLIS: Recombinant AI: Exploiting Heterogeneous Data Fusion with Ontological Frameworks and NLP - This project is focused on developing analytical frameworks (e.g., ontological framework) to enable heterogenous data exploitation and fusion in support of Recombinant AI objectives. It builds on the outcomes of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applied to various documents in a given domain (e.g., data extraction, indexing, and translation etc.), an ontology framework, for example, will identify key entities of interest in that domain and how these entities are interlinked towards inferring root causes or potential future courses of action. It set foundations for exploiting and fusing heterogeneous data to overcome limitations of missing data and/or extract new information from disparate and siloed data sets.
CUAS: Standardized High Level Data Fusion (HLDF)
Standardized High Level Data Fusion (HLDF) System Architecture for Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) - This project delivers innovative engineering and cost-effective technical implementation capabilities to address DoD’s critical High Level Data Fusion (HLDF) system architecture needs in the Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) mission area. Our objective in this project is to create a flexible HLDF system architecture that provides system-of-systems interoperability between existing sensors and Command & Control (C2) systems, maximizes reusability of key technical resources including software modules, and supports future innovation and evolution of HLDF, C2 and sensing systems
ARAKNID
Anytime Reasoning and Analysis for Kill-Web Negotiation and Instantiation across Domains (ARAKNID) - The C5I Center supports Raytheon-BBN technologies providing state-of-the-art research on Applied ExplainableAI and Probabilistic Semantic Technologies. ARAKNID is part of the DARPA ACK Program (link) and is being developed to manage data on various threats in real-time to help decisions involving weapons, sensors and military assets. Important decisions are ultimately made by a real person, but automating machine-to-machine interactions is a significant tactical advantage when seconds and minutes matter.
Semantic Testbed for Inference Enterprise Multi-Modeling: An inference enterprise model uses available information about an inference enterprise to predict performance of the enterprise.
C5I Center projects have coordinated and supported NATO and SISO projects in Command and Control – Simulation Interoperation (C2SIM). It was formerly known as Battle Management Language (BML). Our work with NATO is described in our video and our standards work has reached the point of balloting in SISO. The C2SIM-Cyber project adds to the C2SIM server the ability to impress Cyber effects on C2SIM messages as they pass through the server, to support effective Army operational training in environments where Cyber attacks may occur. NATO MSG145/C2SIM video
STAR-TIDES and Collaborative Community Resilience (CCR) plan to help build individual and community resilience to natural and man-made emergencies while increasing economic and other opportunities in under-served communities
Probabilistic Ontologies: The C4I Center pioneered PR-OWL, a language for augmenting OWL ontologies with constructs for representing uncertainty, and collaborates with the University of Brasilia on an open-source tool for building and using PR-OWL ontologies.
Command&Control/Simulation Testbed
Command and Control Simulation Testbed for International Collaborative Experimentation: Support by our industry partners and staffed as part of our international collaborative research.
SmartNode Pod: The SmartNode Pod is designed to establish battlefield interoperability and is to be flown on either manned or unmanned aircraft to establish an airborne hub that will increase ranges for communications as well as networks.
Innovation House: Support for a DARPA pilot using rapid "sprints" of code, developed by highly innovative teams, in support of image processing technologies.
PlugFest Participation and Hosting
Academic Plugfests: Recruiting students to support a process of competitive integration of off-the-shelf components in an online environment to stimulate defense and intelligence adoption of advanced commercial software development practices -- in partnership with the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E). Plugfest 2013 Website