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Autonomous systems sense the environment, process information, make decisions, and take action in the physical world. This field of robotics research focuses on the transformation of sensor data into perceptions, perceptions and goals into decisions, and decisions into action. Autonomous systems range from single robot platforms to aggregations of multiple systems and associated command and control assets. - An Autonomous Radio Communications System Joseph C. Williams - MOral JUdgment (MOJU) Francine Lalooses - Multi-Robot Control Architecture Robert H. Bolling - Object Classification and Identification in Outoor Environments Keven E. Ring - Passive Mapping for UGVs via SkyAngle Robert J. Grabowski The goal of the Biotechnology portfolio is to maintain a world-class technology base in the biological sciences while performing research focused on our sponsors most difficult problems. Broadly speaking, this investment area focuses on the development of bioenabling technologies, biological threat mitigation technologies, and systems for the management, analysis, and integration of biotechnology data. Specifically, we continue to pursue projects focused on the collection, binding, identification, and characterization of bioagents, as well as work in the emerging field of synthetic biology. In FY12, we began work in the area of bioattribution as identifying the source of a bioagent following a bioterror attack represents a significant challenge facing our sponsors. - Bacteriocins for Broad-Based Binding of Biothreats Michael H. Farris - Bio Attribution Tonia M. Korves - BioFlow Russell R. Graef - Broad-Based Detection of Viruses by Fluorescence Juan Arroyo - Signature of Infection – Transcriptome Sequencing for Pathogen Detection Michael H. Farris - Synthetic Biology John Dileo Communications and networking has long been a core technology at MITRE. Many communications and networking challenges are shared across our sponsor base, and many MIP, ESE Capstone, and direct work program efforts are focused on communication and networking improvements in performance, security, and management. For example, numerous network and communications connectivity issues are addressed in the CCOD portfolio and many information security challenges in radio and wired networks are addressed in the MA3CT areas. However, our portfolio-related MIP investments in communications, and even the research within the commercial telecommunications industry, do not represent approaches to all the challenges, threats, and opportunities that our customers face. Communications technologies that respond to challenges in spectrum, jamming, low or limited power usage, and other limitations faced by military and first responders are important areas for consideration. Furthermore, the challenges with mobility, network formation and topology, management and optimization that occur because of, or to enable the conduct of operations in, a network-centric warfare environment continue to require innovative solutions. We expect our future research to address severe limitations in network bandwidth, heterogeneous and intermittent resource availability (e.g., SATCOM, terrestrial radio), un-sophistication or ill-trained network operators, the interdependency of specialized applications, and electronic warfare with communications - An Ad Hoc Tactical Radio Network Utilizing the FlashLinq PHY/MAC Richard J. Barron - Assured, Compatible and Efficient Spectrum Utilization William C. Sax - Common L3 interface for mobile networks Jack Shaio - Composable Networking on Demand Kevin H. Grace - Dynamic Discovery and Configuration G. Michael Butler - Evaluation of Fourth Generation (4G)/LTE for DoD Utilization Jeffrey T. Correia - Model Based Spectrum Management (MBSM) John A. Stine - Modernization of Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW) and Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) Jerome M. Shapiro - Rapid, Affordable Terminal Design Based On An Open Architecture Hardware Jeffrey P. Long - Robust Position, Navigation, and Timing (C-GIHRS) Ellen M Greene Composable Capability on Demand The vision for Composable Capability on Demand (CCOD®) is to provide transformational change for IT-based command and control (C2). Driven by operational need and enabled by technology advances, CCOD is a new approach (not a system) for how we design and develop IT-based C2 capability, and for how users employ it. For users, CCOD provides strategic advantage: Warfighters can leverage information as an effective weapon because they can rapidly combine, adapt, and extend C2 capabilities in response to evolving threats and mission needs. For the acquisition community, CCOD provides a new acquisition paradigm: It promotes an evolution of IT-based capability—developing and fielding infrastructure, components, and a method to employ them—faster than what is feasible today. - Assuring Trust in a Composition Environment Janis E. Kenderdine - Composable Capability on Demand Platform Robert L. Pancotti - Defining the User Experience in the Composable Operational Environment Todd R. Reily - Dynamic End-to-end IT Management and Resource Allocation Joseph P. Van Metre - Experimentation with Composable Environments Bruce E. Hendrickson - IC.NET Donald P. McGarry - Managing Aggregated Services (MASS) Jeremy T. Witmer - Systems Engineering and Acquisition of Composable Platforms Elaine S. Goyette - Wired Wigits Kelly Gerschefske The Computational Approaches portfolio consists of innovative research in algorithms and techniques for analyzing big data. We seek cross-cutting approaches that are applicable to a broad range of customer hard problems. Several MITRE sponsors are struggling with problems requiring the consumption and analysis of large, multi-variant datasets, which have noise, inaccuracy, and error characteristics that challenge present processing approaches. Commercial and industrial applications of data analytics are advancing rapidly and could be valuable to sponsors if they can be adapted to our massive datasets and unique privacy/security considerations. - Big Linked Data: Handling Big Data with the flexibility of Linked Data Paul C. Melby - Cloud Computing for Biometrics Marc E. Colosimo - Making Big Data Small - Expanding the High Performance Embedded Computing Tool Chest Nazario Irizarry - Predictive Learning via Chained Probabilistic Symbol Mapping Paul E. Silvey - TooCAAn 2: Annotator Supports for Relation Annotation Robyn A. E. Kozierok Emergency Preparedness and Response The Emergency Preparedness & Response (EP&R) portfolio seeks to advance the understanding and capability for the nation’s preparedness and response to severe and complex emergencies. A critical characteristic of EP&R in general is that it is always a shared mission across federal departments and agencies, state, local, and tribal governments, and the private sector (FSLTPS). The “first responders” are always local, and in a major event, they are operating under limited resources and limited information. To better understand and support this community, the portfolio’s long-term vision is focused on capabilities for EP&R enterprise experimentation. In particular, we envision a connected experimentation ecosystem of tools and methodologies that encourages and facilitates a wide range of activities such as collaborative experiments, training, CONOPS development, and evaluation of alternative processes, tools, and sensors. - C3IB - Command Cloud in a Box Donald P. McGarry - Emergency Response Message Interoperability Sherri L. Condon - Fusion Center Integration Laboratory (FCIL) Jeffrey I. Sands - Harmonizing Risk and Quantifying Preparedness in the EP&R Domain Jeanne F. Fandozzi - Measuring Preparedness and Resilience through Systems Engineering the National Exercise Program Kenneth G Crowther - Optimizing the cross-jurisdiction deployment of emergency response assets Matthew E. Olson - Partnership with U of Pittsburgh: Real-Time Robust Decision Making during Emergency Operations Jill L. Drury - SmartPhone Ad-Hoc Networking (SPAN) Josh B Thomas - TRACLite (Transparency and Accountability Lite) for Small Local and Private Entities Kevin S. Buck - Visualization Toolkit for Agile Emergency Planning & Response Beth A. Yost The investigations in the Emerging Technologies portfolio are designed to serve as a forward-looking as well as a broadening vision for MITRE where topics and technical areas outside MITRE’s main work program are investigated and evaluated. An important criterion for topic selection will be potential for broader impact that goes beyond current sponsor requirements and interest. - Chip-scale Ion Mobility Spectrometry: Next-Generation Threat Screening Solution Samar K. Guharay - Human/Brain Computer Interfaces Jeffrey B. Colombe - Neurally-Inspired Models for Motor Control Adam M. McLeod Enhancing Intelligence Analysis MITRE is interested in enhancing analytical methods to provide improved insights into our most pressing threats. We want to investigate approaches that fall into two broad categories: Hard Problems and Unraveling Networks. We will focus first on those techniques that will help our sponsor address severe intelligence challenges, the so-called “Hard Problems” (WMD development, underground facility activities, etc.). It is very difficult to avoid strategic surprise in these areas with our present technical means. We are also interested in improving techniques for the challenge of unraveling technological, economic, and political intent of nations, groups, and actors. This is often done through analyzing large data sets to recognize valuable information and associate it with other indicators. - Author DNA John D. Burger - Better Leveraging MITRE's Big Data Analytics Capability Jay R. Troop - Cyber Intelligence: Getting Left of the Hack David L. Arsenault - Data Mining the Decision Space for Planning and Analysis Gary L. Klein - extensible Event-Based Analytical Spatial Yhteistyö (eEASY) James A. Burnetti - Face Recognition Sensitivity Analysis Mark J Burge - Fingerprint Nicholas C. Donnangelo - HINT Michael W. Ripley - Intelligence Calibration Paul E. Lehner - Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace Constance L. Lewis - Mining SocioCultural Faultlines Karine Megerdoomian - Scalable Semantic Big Data Analytics in a Diverse Data Environment Christian Rasmussen - Sociolect Identification Lisa M. Ferro The Financial Systems Oversight innovation area will investigate solutions that support federal agencies in two major areas—effective collection of revenue and regulation and fiscal policy: - Effective collection of revenue involves exploring techniques that aid in closing the gap between the amount of tax revenue that is owed to the federal government and the amount that is actually collected. - Regulation and fiscal policy involves exploring analytic techniques to understand and respond to systemic risk in the financial system. - Attack Grammar Demonstration Martin Hyatt - Behavioral Modeling of Financial Markets Brian F. Tivnan - Detecting Risk in Tax Preparer Data Zohreh Nazeri - Financial Modeling & Analysis Center Rajani R. Shenoy - Information Infrastructure for Systemic Financial Risk Assessment Leonard J. Seligman - Iterative Link-Based Ranking for Financial Risk Assessment and Fraud Detection Charles A. Worrell - Modeling Systemic Risk to the Financial System Richard A Markeloff - Real-Time Income Tax Processing David P. Koester - Scalable Market Analytics Matthew T. McMahon - Tax Ecosystem Modeling using Virtual Reality Environments Ingram R. Creekmore - Using Network Science to Rank Targets in the Tax Ecosystem Uma B. Marques As the nation’s largest purchaser of healthcare, the federal government seeks to accelerate the transformation of the healthcare sector to achieve universal coverage with higher quality and better public health at manageable cost. MITRE’s Transforming Health research focuses on improving cooperation, coordination, and communications among organizations and people who finance, deliver, and consume health-related services. Our research aims at finding ways to use technology to: 1. Connect health by moving from paper-based silos to interoperable, secure, and private electronic health records. 2. Empower patients/consumers to manage their health and healthcare by extending IT into personal health management. 3. Accelerate research to move promising, safe, and effective new therapies and devices from “bench to bedside.” 4. Streamline healthcare delivery and administrative processes to achieve better outcomes and higher value. - ABLE: Identity Matching in Healthcare Gail Hamilton - Analytics for Rehabilitative Motion Sensing (ARMS) Elaine M. Bochniewicz - Automating Fact Extraction from Medical Records Cheryl Clark - Efficient De-identification Using Targeted Human Review John S. Aberdeen - Enforceable Specification of Privacy (ESP) Jean C. Stanford - EyesFirst Salim K. Semy - Fluorescent Markers for Healthcare Fraud Detection James C Davidson - hArchitecture Adriane P. Chapman - hData Mark A. Kramer - healthAction Toolkit: Empowering patients and clinicans to effectively coordinate care Kristina D. Sheridan - Healthcare Technology Investment Modeling Honora R Huntington - Healthcare Transformation Data Analytics Roadmap Kimberly Warren - hReader Gregg E. Ganley - i2b2 NLP CHALLENGE Lynette Hirschman - Large-Scale Data Analytics for Medical Records Zohreh Nazeri - Making Predictions from Examining Healthcare Data Alexander S. Yeh - MITRE Collaboration with the MIT New Media Medicine’s Lab engaging Government Paul L Torchia - On the Way to Determining the Effectiveness of Electronic Mobile Applications in Reducing Obesity Kathryn A. Lesh - Privacy Preserving Data Mining James C Davidson - TranScript: Accessibility and error detection in pharmaceutical prescriptions David W Tresner-Kirsch - Unlocking the Patient Record for Translational Medicine Lynette Hirschman - Using Privacy Testing to Verify Basic Privacy Controls Julie S. McEwen - WHAT CAN WE TRUST? Jean C. Stanford The goal of the Information Sharing portfolio is to improve trusted, multi-organizational information sharing and collaboration. By developing and leveraging Web 2.0 and cutting-edge social and information sharing technologies, we seek to support new business models and ways of working cross-organizationally. For example, by effectively using social networking tools, sponsors and customers will be able to rapidly and efficiently build and sustain their mission community, network, and teams; exploit all relevant mission information and services; effectively leverage best practices, technology, and expertise; and make quicker decisions based on having complete contextual information available all the time. Though the potential to positively impact how we work, share information, and leverage relationship networks is enormous, it also creates a new set of challenges. This portfolio is also working to address issues such as cross-system identity management, securing the free flow of content across networks and platforms, access control, and visualizing the networks. Formerly Social Networking for the Enterprise, the Information Sharing portfolio was renamed to recognize the broader goal of applying social business relationship and information management mechanisms to address MITRE’s multi-organizational collaboration needs and support similar opportunities in our sponsor organizations. - Architecture for trusted multi-organizational sharing Donna L. Cuomo - Automated Profile Generation and Management Abigail S. Gertner - Longitudinal evaluation and accelerating adoption of social-enabled business models Laurie E. Damianos - Real-World Security in Real-Time: Semantic Specification of the RBAC Security Model with Fast Performance David O. Ferrell - Usable Distributed Identity Justin P. Richer Integrated Sensing, Processing, and Exploitation The increasing demand for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) is outstripping the ability of sensing resources to satisfy all the requests for data and support. Targets are more complex, low contrast, non-traditional, and rapidly changing. Sensing environments are more complex, widely varying (urban, suburban, rural), and intermingled with civilian activities. As the asymmetric threat spreads to parts of the world where we are unable to collect with traditional ISR assets, we must explore more covert means to sense, collect, and exfiltrate information. No single technical means or automation “silver bullet” can address these contemporary challenges. Rather, supporting the myriad mission information needs requires the agile integration of sensing, processing, and exploitation. Integrated Sensing, Processing, and Exploitation (iSPE) provides a framework for improved collaboration and coordination across existing ISR assets while driving longer term development of system-level and capability improvements. - Activity-Based INTEL Steven E. Frey - Advanced Algorithms for Detection of Small Targets in the Maritime Domain Katherine M. Nieswand - Agile, Multi-INT Processing with Pedigree (AMPP) Barbara T. Blaustein - Automated Sensor Management Brett C. Bishop - Automated Signal Recognition Kevin D. Mauck - Bi/Multistatic Radar Experimentation Jose A. Torres - Bistatic Radar: Processing, Exploitation, and Systems Sean D. O'Neil - Computational Imaging and Sensing for LIDAR (CISL) Michael D. Stenner - Deep Unsupervised Exploitation of ARGUS Motion Imagery Seamus A. Clancy - Evaluate confidence and quality of automatically generated GMTI tracks Sandip K Bhatt - FMV ON-Target:Optical Navigation for Precision FMV Targeting Scott Robbins - Gisting Video Content using Labeled Images Evelyne Tzoukermann - Hyperspectral Imagery (HSI) Microscopy: Enhanced Laboratory Support for the Exploitation of Earth Remote Sensing Data Ronald G Resmini - Improving comparative evaluation efficiency for automated wide area motion imagery (WAMI) tracking Sandip K Bhatt - Light Fields and Non-Isomorphic Imaging Techniques for Model-Driven Gary W. Euliss - Location-Based Intelligence Lashon B. Booker - MMIR Qian Hu - Pose Invariant Object &Target Recognition Using 3D Lidar Sensors Walter S. Kuklinski - Tailored Processing for Wind Turbine Mitigation Isaac Dekine - The Probabilitic Identification of Solid Materials in Hyperspectral Imagery Marin S. Halper - Video Compression with a Tailored Optical Response (VICTOR) Scott G Wehrwein - Weave: Wide Area Motion Imagery Auto-Tracking and Activity Detection Ventrella, Jason F. Measuring and Guiding Engagement Through innovative strategies, methodologies, tools, and relationships, this MITRE research seeks to develop a “Social Radar,” a global and persistent indications and warnings capability consisting of technologies to sense, localize, and track perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of adversaries and audiences, on behalf of our national interests. Success of a Social Radar depends on continuous access to global data on perceptions, attitudes, opinions, sentiments, and behaviors. Much of the most timely and valuable data will be found through a variety of increasingly important Internet-based sources. Our goal is to use all relevant data, in conjunction with current and emerging technologies, to detect and monitor emerging events, create effective engagement strategies, forecast engagement effects, conduct course of action planning, and measure the effects of engagement actions. - Integration of Socio-Cultural Indicators for Global Situation and Option Awareness (Social Radar) Jennifer J. Mathieu - Mapping Influence Jeffrey Zarrella - Predicting Revolutionary Triggers in Social Media Karine Megerdoomian - Sentiment-Based Topic Discovery John A. Boiney - Social-Global Mood Tracking Indicator Sara B Elson Micro-electronics and Embedded Systems MITRE has long recognized micro-electronics as a key technology on which all our sponsors rely and in which we must maintain a high level of technical competency. Our continuing targeted research in micro-electronics is applied to a series of existing or emerging customer needs within the Core Technology portfolio. Our primary goal in microelectronics is to maintain state-of-the-practice expertise while demonstrating new approaches for key sponsor challenges in signal processing and computation. - Emerging Technologies for VLSI Applications Albert A. Conti Mission Assurance Against Cyber Threats Though we must continue pursuing information assurance solutions that assure that information systems will resist compromise, we also need new techniques to ensure that these systems will meet mission needs even when elements are compromised. Working within our risk management framework—reduce cyber threats, vulnerabilities due to cyber dependencies, and mission consequences of adverse cyber effects—this research program seeks to help manage the risks to mission success posed by the Advanced Cyber Threat (ACT), which we consider to encompass human outsiders and virtual (malware) insiders, and the command and control (C2) channels that connect them. - Active Dynamic Defense to Enhance Resiliency (ADDER) William A. Dowling - Active Risk-driven Configuration and Response Management to Mitigate Advanced and Persistent Cyber Threats (ARCON) Roshan K Thomas - Autonomously Reacting Distributed Systems Moses D Liskov - Continuous Learning Eric E. Bloedorn - Countering ASLR and DEP Bypass Attacks David R. Keppler - Cyber Counter-Deception Kristin E. Heckman - Cyber-Aware Theater Battle Management Mark A. Kramer - DataStorm: Securing Databases Through Encryption Kenneth P. Smith - Denial Adam Pennington - Identity Based Internet Protocol Network Shu Nakamoto - Maintaining Operational Resiliency Through Operational Cyber Scott D. Foote - Networked-Malware Emulation, Sensing, and Investigation Suite (NeMESIS) Joel P. Hypolite - Resiliency Assessment and Metrics Deborah J. Bodeau - Resiliency Through Defensive Maneuverability - Secure Cyber Hopping Timothy L. Taylor - Resilient Architecture for Mission and Business Objectives (RAMBO) Rosalie M. McQuaid - Resilient Virtual Routers Jeffrey K. Schwefler - Starfish: Decentralized Control for Resilient Operations Joshua D. O'Sullivan - STRONGARM: Improving CND Focused Response Actions Todd A. O'Boyle - System Measurement and Attestation Capabilities (SMAC) Amy L. Herzog Next Generation Air Traffic Management System (NextGen) is a congressionally mandated initiative to modernize the U.S. air transportation system. NextGen’s goals include increasing the capacity and reliability of the system, improving safety and security, and minimizing aviation’s environmental impact. Intended to help expedite the implementation NextGen, this portfolio focuses on three broad areas where MITRE can have particular value and impact: - Creating a robust National Airspace System (NAS). These areas leverage our strengths in tools, technical expertise, and corporate knowledge; are well aligned with our FFRDC mission; and leverage a broad set of innovative, forward-looking ideas being brought forward by MITRE technical staff. In addition to outcome-focused research Innovations, we engage in key enabling research efforts. These cross-functional research topics have broad applicability to the success of NextGen. - Arrival/Departure Runway Integration Scheduler Paul A. Diffenderfer Deborah A. Kirkman - Block Occupancy Based Surface Surveillance Emily K. Stelzer - BrainGage: Real-Time Measurement of Human Workload Monica Z. Weiland - Defining Trajectory-Based Operation Portfolio Benefits W. Worth Kirkman - Exploring Cooperative Airspace Concepts for UAS Integration Paul J. Wehner - Ground-Based Sense and Avoid for UAS Integration Steven A. Bell - High Performance Automated Air Traffic Analysis Matthew T. McMahon - Identifying High Risk Aviation Events Before They Happen Douglas Perkins - Implications of UAS Operations in Controlled Airspace Jill C. Kamienski - Integrating UAS Into NextGen Automation Systems Nathan M. Paczan - Measuring the Safety of NextGen Runway Operations Gregory Chesterton - NAS-wide Environmental Impact Assessment for NextGen Anuja A. Mahashabde - New Radar Methods to Assist in UAS Sense and Avoid Robert A Coury - Rapid En Route Response to Terminal Health Raphael D. Katkin - Reinventing High Density Area Departure/Arrival Management Hilton Bateman - Strategic Planning for Flow Contingency Management Christine P. Taylor - System-Wide Modeling for Initial Investment Decision Support William A. Baden - Wake Turbulence Avoidance Automation Clark R. Lunsford The primary objective of the Systems Engineering portfolio is to transform our practice of systems engineering to more efficiently and effectively meet the needs of the highly dynamic, complex, and unpredictable operating environments of our end users. We are evolving a new framework, Systems Engineering to the Edge (SEE™), driven by the concept of continuously engineering capabilities with end users and other key stakeholders throughout the life cycle. Principal components of this framework include a sociotechnical platform to support distributed and asynchronous collaboration, new/enhanced systems engineering analytic tools, and systems engineering success patterns. - Adaptable Capability Mashup Environment (ACME) at the Edge Douglas J. Phair - Agile Quantitative Systems Engineering for Complex Scenarios Samar K. Guharay - Continuous Immersive Systems Engineering (CISE) Matthew T. K. Koehler - POET - Integrating Political, Operational, Economic, and Technical Factors into Systems Engineering William J. Kruse MITRE is committed to investigate, evaluate, and mature technologies that have the potential to significantly impact our sponsors’ mission. The Emerging Technologies core innovation area focuses on identifying new technologies and rapidly assessing their potential impact on our sponsors’ missions. The Technology Futures core innovation area more deeply investigates and develops a select few emerging technologies that have the potential to be deleteriously disruptive or provide game changing advanced capabilities to our sponsors’ missions. The projects within the Technology Futures portfolio work extensively with the external (government, DoD, industry, and academia) research community to mature the identified technologies while educating MITRE’s sponsors on the potential impact and advantages afforded by the new technologies. An explicit goal of the projects within the Technology Futures portfolio is to mature their respective technologies to a level where a sustaining sponsor-funded work program emerges that leverages the technical depth, breadth, and tools developed under the Technology Futures portfolio to address near-term sponsor needs. - Nanosystems Modeling and Nanoelectronic Computers James C. Ellenbogen - Quantum Information, Computing and Sensing Gerald N. Gilbert Transforming the Government Enterprise Transforming the Government Enterprise (TGE) is targeted at significantly enhancing the effectiveness of critical missions in federal civilian agencies. These agencies’ ability to provide cost-effective services to the public is being tested as budgets are cut and demand for services increase. Government leaders recognize that they cannot continue to meet their mission requirements without fundamentally changing the way they do business. But, how do they make this happen? Where do they start? How do they evaluate and prioritize their investments? How do they sustain high performance in a rapidly changing environment? The TGE innovation area is exploring the role of analysis-based models, methods, and tools in providing insights into which changes can have the greatest impact and where to focus investments. Specifically, the goal of this innovation area is to define and facilitate effective use and adoption of these analysis-based models, methods, and tools to enable the transformation of public-facing federal agencies’ core mission services. - An Analysis-Driven Innovation and Decision-Making Approach for Leveraging Technology on Core Mission Services Suzanne L. Geigle - Megachange Phase 2 Ingram R. Creekmore - Real-World Experiments to Model and Analyze New Service Offerings Bradley C.H. Schoener - Virtual Business Experimentation Environment – Phase 3 Edith Allen Hughes |
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