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Autonomy is the factor that stands between our desire for faster, smarter systems and the reality of today’s capability. Autonomous systems sense the environment, process information, make decisions, and take action in the physical world with limited human contribution. This field of 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 their associated command and control assets. -Multi-Robot Control Architecture Christopher Elsaesser -Planning and Behavior Control in Dismounted Soldier Following Robert J. Grabowski Biosecurity/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. EP&R is a critical national security mission that includes all activities associated with understanding, planning, detecting, predicting, preventing, preparing, detecting, deciding about, responding to, and recovering from an adverse event (natural or man-made) that causes damage to people and property. MITRE’s research vision is to be “a recognized expert in innovative information technology, tools, and processes of EP&R with demonstrated impact on local, state, and federal response.” The vision captures our desire to be known as expert innovators in the field, with the demonstrated impact to back up the reputation. Three key elements comprise our vision: 1. Recognized: It is important not that we claim ourselves as experts, but that others view us that way. 2. Innovative: While it is critical that we understand the foundational and every day elements of EP&R to successfully contribute to national EP&R solutions, the goal of the MIP is to lead the way with innovation, creativity, and forward thinking solutions. 3. Demonstrated impact: EP&R is a practical field, dealing with highly visible and tangible threats to life, property, and culture. Russell R. Graef -DIS for Heterogeneous Modeling and Simulation Environments (DISH-ME) Dean J. Zywicki -Emergency Response Experimentation Network (EREN) Justin P. Richer Gary L. Klein -EOC - Fusion Center Integration Michael R. French -Fusion Center Integration Laboratory (FCIL) Jeffrey I. Sands -Harmonizing Risk and Quantifying Preparedness in the EP&R Domain Jeanne F. Fandozzi -Large-Scale Disaster Planning Using Social Networking Rahim K. Semy -Optimizing the cross-jurisdiction deployment of emergency response assets Matthew E. Olson -Scenario Construction Aid for Distributed Experimentation Constantinos J. Tombras David K. Walburger Composable Capability on Demand Global challenges facing our military and other leaders continue to increase in variety and complexity. To manage these effectively, C2 capabilities of the future will need to demonstrate unprecedented flexibility. This will require an agile response to unanticipated threats or natural disasters; dynamic integration of new assets and resources; and effective collaboration across joint, multinational, and civilian organizations. MITRE is engaging in innovative research that will enable rapid integration, adaptation, and reconfiguration of C2 capabilities to support these increasingly complex mission challenges facing military and civilian decision makers. -Accountability on Demand MSR - Second Year Dino Konstantopoulos -Common L3 interface for mobile networks Jack Shaio -Composable Capability on Demand Acquisition - A Unified Process Duane W. Hybertson -Composable Capability on Demand Platform Robert L. Pancotti -Composable Communications on Demand (CComOD)-Toolkit Deborah L. Goldsmith -Composable Networking on Demand Kevin H. Grace -Composable Operational Workflows Lewis A. Loren Andrew D. King -Composition and Recombination of Virtual Resources & Environments Matthew D Patron -Context Enabled Dynamic Discovery and Delivery Daniel J. Gagne -Dynamic Discovery and Configuration G. Michael Butler -Dynamic End-to-end IT Management and Resource Allocation-FY11 David J. Miller -Experimenting with Acquisition Strategies Using Gaming Joseph P. Van Metre Donald P. McGarry -Next Generation Data Alignment Leonard J. Seligman -Performance-enabled Composition Environment Diane E. Mularz Jay A. Crossler Mark D. Smiley -Trusting Composed Information Barbara T. Blaustein -Zero Config Dynamic Tactical Networks Jeffrey D D'Amelia Core technologies research at MITRE focuses on capabilities that can be applied across several challenge areas and those of critical concern to our sponsors that are beyond the scope of our investment area structure. These efforts often involve several, overlapping work areas that are best handled together so that all interests are supported. Examples of MITRE’s current research include biotechnology, investments in microelectronics and network theoretics, simulation, environmental studies, and tactical communications efforts. -BioThreat Aircraft Warning System (BTAWS) Transition Tonia M. Korves -Broad-Based Detection of Viruses by Fluorescence Juan Arroyo -Casting a Wider Net: Bacteriocins for Broad-Based Binding of Biothreat Agents Michael H. Farris -Civilian-GNSS Interference Hardened Receiver System (C-GIHRS) Ellen M Greene -Cloud Computing for Biometrics Marc E. Colosimo -Cloud Labor for Annotation and Classification John D. Burger -Emerging Technologies for VLSI Applications Albert A. Conti -Managing Multicore Complexity Brian Sroka Andrzej K. Brodzik -Model Based Spectrum Management (MBSM) John A. Stine -Modernization of Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW) and Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) Jerome M. Shapiro -Physical Representations of the US Economy and its Transformed Infrastructure Bradley C.H. Schoener -Predictive Learning via Chained Probabilistic Symbol Mapping Paul E. Silvey -Robust Parallel Computing for Airlift Fleet Management Mark J. Surina -Signature of Infection – Transcriptome Sequencing for Pathogen Detection Michael H. Farris -Tactical Wireless Communication and Networking Evaluation Environment Christopher C. Niessen -TooCAAn: Toolkit for Corrective Active Annotation Robyn A. E. Kozierok New technologies can dramatically change the way we do business. While most technology advances allow for incremental improvements, occasionally a technology will come along that fundamentally changes the landscape by creating an entirely new or widely relevant capability. MITRE has selected several research topics that have the potential to cause disruptions. Initial research into these areas is positioning us to better understand how these technologies can be used, both for and against us. -Analog VLSI for Low Power Real-time Compressive Imaging Robert M. Taylor -Bio-inspired Sensing for Navigation & Guidance Hal S. Greenwald W. Jody Mandeville -Chip-scale Ion Mobility Spectrometry: Next-Generation Threat Screening Solution Samar K. Guharay -Emerging Analog Device and Circuit Technologies Shamik Das -Human/Brain Computer Interfaces Jeffrey B. Colombe -Nanosystems Modeling and Nanoelectronic Computers James C. Ellenbogen -Neurally-Inspired Models for Motor Control Adam M. McLeod -Non Invasive Human Signatures (NiHS) Thomas A. Neal -Open Source Hardware Environment (OSHEN) Samuel C. Sayer -Quantum Information, Computing and Sensing Gerald N. Gilbert John Dileo Enhancing Intelligence Analysis Intelligence analysis is the process of taking known information about situations and entities of importance and characterizing both known and future actions. These descriptions are drawn from deliberately deceptive information; the analyst must correlate the similarities among deceptions and extract a common truth. Virtually all of MITRE’s customers need to apply this decision analysis approach to retrospectively analyze a response to a situation or to predict a potential course of action across a spectrum of potential outcomes. MITRE is investing in research efforts targeting at improving our ability to execute intelligence analysis of all types, especially external threats to the nation. Through this emphasis we seek to move the decision maker away from unaided intuition and into a decision space that is transparent, defensible, and repeatable. -Cyber Intelligence: Getting Left of the Hack David L. Arsenault Adriane P. Chapman -Economic Preparation of the Battlespace Constance L. Lewis -Economical Scientific Domain Adaptation for Machine Translation John D. Burger Paul E. Lehner Benjamin R. Wellner Motivated by a MITRE corporate goal to assist federal agencies in their efforts to drive effective, oversight and regulation of the financial industry, this area invests in projects that develop techniques of use to financial regulators and law enforcement agencies. Goals for this area include: Produce insights that promote understanding of the cash economy and the tax gapEnhance financial oversight and intelligence capabilities to predict, detect, and respond to illicit financial activityEnable the adoption of quantitative techniques for assessing systemic riskEnable technology and processes that support the goals of transparency and accountability. -Behavioral Modeling of Financial Markets Brian F. Tivnan -Evidence Based Analysis of Financial Data (Phase II) Scott Rosen -Iterative Link-Based Ranking for Financial Risk Assessment and Fraud Detection Charles A. Worrell -Mobile Money: New Player in the Economic Landscape Laura M. Jones -Modeling Financial Entities and Transactions using Relational Dependency Networks Marcia A. Lazo -Tax Ecosystem Modeling using Virtual Reality Environments Ingram R. Creekmore -TRACLite (Transparency and Accountability Lite) for Small Local and Private Entities Kevin S. Buck -Using Network Science to Rank Targets in the Tax Ecosystem Uma B. Marques MITRE’s Transforming Health innovation investment area funds research by principal investigators from across MITRE who apply their advanced knowledge of MITRE’s core competencies to help our sponsors advance progress in the health domain. As the nation’s largest purchaser of health services, the federal government seeks to accelerate the transformation of the health sector to achieve higher quality and better public health outcomes at manageable cost. Research targets are selected based on a multi-year roadmap for the health sector that will move the nation toward an integrated health system. At a very high level, these four pathways will help our sponsors move the country toward that goal: connecting providers; accelerating health and biomedical research; empowering patients with personal health information; and targeting public health investments and incentives. Each research project must address one or more barriers to achieving progress that requires novel systems engineering approaches, new standards and techniques, or application of advanced technologies pioneered in other MITRE sectors. -Automating Fact Extraction from Medical Records Cheryl Clark -Data Reuse Agreements: Patient Consent To Share Clinical Data Jean C. Stanford -Digital Pen-Based Multimodal Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Creation Qian Hu -Enforceable Specification of Privacy (ESP) Peter D.S. Mork Salim K. Semy Mark A. Kramer -Healthcare Technology Investment Modeling Bradley C.H. Schoener -Measuring Risk and Information Preservation: New Metrics for De-identification of Unstructured Text John S. Aberdeen Gail Hamilton The overall goal of MITRE’s Identity investment area is to develop, prototype, and test technologies that can be used by the government to ensure that people interacting with government services or processes can be identified quickly and reliably with confidence. The identity attributed to an individual must be unique to that individual and accessible across the enterprise. A person identified in one context or interaction with a department or agency must retain the same identity in all interactions with other departments and agencies. Our research focuses on uncovering a simple and reliable way to resolve multiple identities attributed to a single person and when one person claims a single identity. This must be accomplished while interacting with the government when seeking benefits, accessing records, performing updates, and during law enforcement activities. -Exploiting Behavioral Data to Improve Identity Management Eric E. Bloedorn -Gravimetric Imaging for Detecting Fissile Materials in Cargo Containers Langhorne P. Withers -Innovative Approach to the Detection of Cross-Border Clandestine Tunnels Weiqun Shi -Miniaturized Hybrid Sensor for Multiple Threats Detection -- Transition Samar K. Guharay -Variable Range Face and Iris Plenoptic Biometric Camera Thanh N. Nguyen Information Sharing (formerly Social Networking for the Enterprise) is about leveraging and extending Web2.0 and cutting edge social and information sharing technologies to improve enterprise and multi-organizational information sharing, and enabling new business and collaboration processes. 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. Social software can also be used to “social-enable” existing business processes in areas such as idea management, innovation brokering, systems engineering acquisition activities, situational awareness, and the social capture of organizational knowledge. While the potential to positively impact how we work, share information, and leverage relationship networks is enormous, it also creates a new set of challenges. MITRE is working to address issues such as cross-system identity management, securing the free flow of social content across networks and platforms, and addressing the social and cultural issues of trust, privacy, and transparency of interaction. Techniques for searching, leveraging, and visualizing these relationship networks and real-time information sources are also a focus. -Aardvark: Social Search @ MITRE Christopher M. Spirito -Automated Profile Generation and Management Abigail S. Gertner -Innovation Brokering in Fed Gov. Markets John A Michitson -Longitudinal evaluation and accelerating adoption of social-enabled business models Donna L. Cuomo -OpenStack Technology Ecosystem Justin P. Richer Integrated Sensing, Processing, and Exploitation (iSPE) With the advent of asymmetric warfare and the attendant increasingly challenging target sets, persistent and responsive ISR is needed to provide military commanders with reliable, accurate, and timely information about operational environments. To achieve this capability, diverse data and information must be collected, relevant target and background phenomenology must be understood, and diverse information products to support analyses from multiple perspectives must be developed. MITRE is currently researching capabilities in the areas of agile and dynamic sensing, sensor processing, and multi-INT exploitation across real-time collected and archived data sources. -Adaptive Multi-INT Decision Fusion for Improved Critical Target Detection and Classification Martin E. Liggins Austin Kennedy Kevin D. Mauck -Computational Imaging for Persistent Pervasive Surveillance Michael D. Stenner Todd A. Hay -Light fields and non-isomorphic imaging techniques for model driven sensing Gary W. Euliss -Manifold Learning and Dimension Reduction for Classification Seamus A. Clancy -Model-Driven Mission Decisions Craig A. Bonaceto -Multi-INT Feature Aided InteractiveISR Tracking James B. Witkoskie -NMR Techniques for Enhanced, Real-Time Battlefield IED Detection Yaakov S. Weinstein -Test Track 2: Architecture Driven Simulation for Strategic Planning Michael D. Dinsmore Jay A. Crossler Advanced cyber adversaries with sophisticated attack capabilities have established a persistent presence on some of our networks. We have ample evidence that despite significant strides toward building secure, trustworthy systems, advanced cyber adversaries are successfully using other means of attack to compromise our information systems and the missions that rely on those systems. While we must continue pursuing information assurance solutions that assure that information systems will resist compromise, we also need new techniques to assure these systems will meet mission needs even when elements are compromised. We have adopted a risk management approach and seek to manage risks to mission success in the presence of advanced cyber adversaries. This requires improvements in three areas: exposing and disrupting the cyber operations of advanced cyber threats, reducing cyber vulnerabilities that may impact missions, and reducing the mission consequences of adverse cyber effects. -A Tool for the Anatomy and Detection of Data Exfiltration (TADDEL) Rosalie M. McQuaid -Autonomously Reacting Distributed Systems Moses D Liskov -Computational Pheresis - Systematic State Migration for Threat Avoidance and High Availability Alan E. Stone -Cyber-Aware Theater Battle Management Mark A. Kramer Peter D.S. Mork -DataStorm: Securing Databases Through Encryption Kenneth P. Smith Shu Nakamoto -Detecting Malicious Activity in Cross Boundary Communications Joel P. Hypolite -Detecting the Advanced Cyber Threat Using ELICIT Marc W. Brooks -Enhanced Circuit Testing for Integrity Leonard G Monk -Identity Based Internetwork Protocol Shu Nakamoto -Mission Assurance Through Availability (MATA) Robert C. Durst -Mission Assurance via Resilient Software (MARS) David R. Keppler -Resiliency Through Defensive Maneuverability - Secure Cyber Hopping Timothy L. Taylor -Resilient Architecture for Mission and Business Objectives: Alternative Processes and Operations Rosalie M. McQuaid -Resilient Architecture for Mission and Business Objectives: Data Integrity and Availability Rosalie M. McQuaid -Resilient Architecture for Mission and Business Objectives: RESILIANT DEFENSE Rosalie M. McQuaid -Resilient Architecture for Mission and Business Objectives:DYNAMIC COMPOSABILITY Rosalie M. McQuaid -Shadowsong: An active warden for disrupting client-side exploits Timothy J McNevin -System Measurement and Attestation Capabilities (SMAC) Amy L. Herzog -The Underground Railroad: How to Hide a Network Resource Moses D Liskov NextGen: The Future of Air Traffic Management There is now growing consensus within the aviation community on the high-level conceptual elements of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). However, uncertainty remains on many of the technical details of these elements and on how to transition from today’s system to this future world. MITRE is targeting its research investments to reduce uncertainty and to identify the technical and procedural enablers that will get us to NextGen. We are focusing on three key research questions: How can we reduce the impact of weather on the capacity and delays in the system? How can we enable safe, open, routine, integrated access to national airspace by Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)? What does the future NextGen system look like, operationally, analytically, and from a cost-benefit perspective, as seen through models and simulations; and how can we use that knowledge to help stakeholders come to consensus on the path to NextGen? Deborah A. Kirkman -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 -Fast Time Architectures for NextGen Modeling & Simulation Ernest H. Page -Flight Option Generation for NextGen Automation Craig R. Wanke -Ground-based Sense and Avoid for UAS Integration Steven A. Bell -High Performance Automated Air Traffic Analysis Matthew T. McMahon -Implications of UAS Operations in Controlled Airspace Jill C. Kamienski -Integrated Economy-wide Modeling Katherine T. Harback -Integrated Equivalent Visual Operations Anand D. Mundra -Integrating UAS Into NextGen Automation Systems Eric Zakrzewski -Intelligent UAS Situation Awareness and Information Delivery Qian Hu -Measuring the Safety of NextGen Runway Operations Gregory Chesterton -NAS-wide Environmental Impact Assessment for NextGen Anuja A. Mahashabde -NextGen Interagency Experimentation Hub Richard D. Flournoy -Reinventing High Density Area Departure/Arrival Management Hilton Bateman -System-wide Modeling for NextGen William A. Baden David R. Maroney -Wake Turbulence Avoidance Automation Clark R. Lunsford Our end-users are in complex, unpredictable, highly dynamic operating and development environments that require greater flexibility and agility in our systems, along with capabilities to satisfy “real-time” or “on-demand” needs. The objective of the systems engineering investment area is to learn and capture tacit knowledge and apply improved political (social), operational, economic, and technical (POET) factors to enhance the success of our customers’ missions. We are evolving a new framework, Systems Engineering at the Edge™ driven by the concept of co-engineering, i.e., continuously engineering capabilities with end-users and other stakeholders throughout the systems engineering life cycle. Douglas J. Phair -Continuous Immersive Systems Engineering (CISE) Matthew T. K. Koehler -POET - Integrating Political, Operational, Economic, and Technical Factors into Systems Engineering William J. Kruse -Socio-Technical Analytic Toolkit (STAT): POET and CISE JOINT Matthew T. K. Koehler Transforming the Government Enterprise Transforming the Government Enterprise is targeted at enhancing the effectiveness of critical missions in federal civilian agencies. The goal of this investment area is to accelerate the transformation in how public-facing government agencies perform their mission in two ways: by providing capabilities that facilitate rapid, evidence-based planning and investment decision-making, and by exploring and demonstrating viable solutions to targeted barriers. -Citizen-Oriented Data Analytics (CODA) R. Theodore Sienknecht T. Scott Ankrum Ingram R. Creekmore J. J. Brennan -Virtual Business Experimentation Environment – Phase 2 Paul F Bohne |
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