Intelligent Automation, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: DTRA172-004
Intelligent Automation, Inc. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $1,000,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- DTRA172-004
- Solicitation
- 17.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MD
- Period
- 2019-12-18 → 2021-12-17
Description
Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI), along with our collaborators, has successfully conducted a proof-of-concept study for a Scalable and Automated Tool to Analyze and Identify Dual Use Research of Concern from Scientific Publications: SAT-DURC. The key innovation of our proposed approach is a novel DURC identification system that combines the strength of natural language processing with machine learning, leverages the domain knowledge of subject matter experts and provides a user friendly interface. In Phase I, we have achieved satisfactory preliminary results for DURC identification of one bio-agent and one experimental category by applying advanced deep learning and Natural Language Processing based algorithms. The focus of the Phase II project will be to acquire a large dataset, enhance and extend the algorithms developed in Phase I to all 15 bio-agents and 7 experimental categories with the same level or better DURC identification accuracy, evaluate the algorithms with the large dataset, develop a user-friendly SAT-DURC software tool, and work with our commercial partners to transition this technology.