MOSAIC ATM, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF203-CSO1

Description

As the Space Force expands, the potential for operations to be conducted in isolation, confinement, and extreme condition (ICE) environments away from Earth and monitoring capabilities increases.  Having an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) system that can monitor individuals via facial mood recognition, vocal tonality analysis, proximity to one another, performance, biosensors, surveys, and more, and predict and help avoid conflict could improve a unit’s cohesion and performance in missions both in space and in isolated environments on Earth.  Mosaic and teammate, Aptima Inc., propose to build the Artificial Intelligence System for Human Health Support (AIS-HHS).     The goal of this autonomous AI system is to interpret, track, predict, and recommend countermeasures to the mental effects that can come from ICE environments, on-site, in real-time, and provide the support essential to maintaining interpersonal relationships of unit members. Note that ICE environments are expected during long-duration space missions, but also exist on Earth, e.g. during winter stays in Antarctica research stations. No such product currently exists, but as long-duration, crewed space missions become more prevalent in the coming decades, the need for such a system will be critical. By developing it today and using it on current crewed missions, the system will be fine-tuned for use on long-duration spaceflights. Building and testing such a system today is critical.   In Phase I, the team will identify all potential Air Force customers and coordinate closely to capture requirements.  The second objective is to create a feasibility / research and development (R&D) plan for integrating AIS-HHS cognitive and behavioral monitoring algorithms into Aptima’s Confined Spaces Monitoring System (CSMS).  Finally, we will validate the need with primary customers.  The 309th Software Engineering Group (SWEG) / Extreme Digital Development Group Enterprise (EDDGE) out of Hill Air Force Base has already expressed interest and provided a letter of support.