BCL Technologies — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: AF20A-TCSO1
BCL Technologies — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $49,689
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- AF20A-TCSO1
- Solicitation
- X20.A
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2020-03-06 → 2020-06-04
Description
BCL Technologies (BCL) proposes testing its Multi-lingual Social-media Crowd Manipulation Detector (MSCMD) with live Twitter feed to detect propaganda in real time. The MSCMD uses emotion in Social Media to detect efforts to manipulate crowds. A prototype MSCMD was developed in Dec 2019. In the Phase I research, BCL plans to: Link MSCMD System to Twitter Use MSCMD to locate Propaganda in Twitter Feed Compare MSCMD with current State-of-the-art Design Phase II MSCMD System Specific tasks for Phase I research are: Connect MSCMD Twitter data for real time Propaganda Collect Data Feed for training MSCMD System Train the MSCMD System on 1/3 of collected data Test MSCMD System on real time Twitter feed Compare the MSCMD System with current state-of-the-art Write results of Phase I Research Use Phase I results to write Phase II plan