SBIR-STTR Award

A Deep Learning Approach for Enhanced Identification of Nuclear Explosions
Award last edited on: 5/24/2023

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : DTRA
Total Award Amount
$1,120,675
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
DTRA182-005
Principal Investigator
Hafidh A A Ghalib

Company Information

Array Information Technology Inc (AKA: Array IT)

7474 Greenway Center Drive Suite 600
Greenbelt, MD 20770
   (301) 345-8188
   bob.deegan@arrayinfotech.com
   www.arrayinfotech.com
Location: Multiple
Congr. District: 05
County: Prince Georges

Phase I

Contract Number: HDTRA119P0026
Start Date: 4/3/2019    Completed: 11/7/2019
Phase I year
2019
Phase I Amount
$150,000
Seismic, hydro acoustic, and infrasonic (SHI) analyses possess many desirable properties, such as long-distance wave propagation and attributable spectral characteristics. They have been, by large, relegated to capturing massive explosions, earthquakes, bolides, and space-bound rocket launches. Although machine learning techniques have been employed on various military and commercial projects, rarely has there been an attempt to marry the adaptive capabilities of the machine learning algorithms with all three sources that surround events of interest. Our revolutionary approach, proposes to develop augmented machine learning techniques that inherently leverage the existence of all three sensor data types. The inclusion of each data type is of utmost importance, where event characterization and development of propagation models have clearly demonstrated the impact of source types, atmospheric conditions, and terrain geology on acquired SHI waveforms, respectively. This is contrast to most contemporary methods that look at one or at most a few features or discriminants to make a decision on source type, based on physical modeling or observational. Our approach utilizes both, the sensor data type when available or perform without it for a strictly automated solution. The innovative technical merits we propose have real value that is direct applicable to support DTRAs mission toTime series,machine learning,Pattern recognition,Seismic,hydro acoustic,Infrasonic,signal processing

Phase II

Contract Number: HDTRA122C0005
Start Date: 10/12/2021    Completed: 10/11/2023
Phase II year
2022
Phase II Amount
$970,675
ML is a subset of AI. Discrimination based on SI signals is a module in monitoring systems(NDC & IDC. We will provde a prototype that will incorporate elements of the discrimination procedures found