ARETE ASSOCIATES — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N192-131
ARETE ASSOCIATES — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $146,499
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N192-131
- Solicitation
- 19.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2019-10-21 → 2020-04-21
Description
The Navy is interested in a software tool to be utilized by analysts with the intent of Insider Threat Detection. Arete suggests modelling the problem as a low SNR state transition problem which poses challenges such as: no publicly-available truthed data for training, low SNR. Arete is well-poised to overcome these challenges and suggests the innovation of extracting features from analogous low SNR state transition problems to create and test an algorithm without requiring relevant data. Arete will perform the exploitation of generalized features and structures between posts of those who transitioned states. Sentiment Modelling will be utilized as a general feature extraction method across the problems as well. Arete has had success detecting low SNR state transitions in problems such as Attention Focusing Filter and Deceptive Narrative Identification and intends to use successful techniques from these programs.