APTIMA INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N181-026

Description

The Navy seeks to leverage data science-based tools, methods, and principles to achieve a warfighting advantage over our enemies. For example, aggregate data regarding Warfighter proficiency could help the Navy to make better-informed decisions on topics such as curriculum redesign, simulator acquisitions, and weapons platform acquisitions. However, in order to create such a proactive and predictive decision capability, the Navy first needs to develop reliable, valid, and unobtrusive measures of Warfighter proficiency that can be collected during training. Additionally, the Navy needs to develop a “big data” infrastructure that can integrate the Warfighter proficiency data—across squadrons, training events, missions/tasks, and time—to identify meaningful trends that will guide decision making activities throughout the Naval command hierarchy. To address this critical need, Aptima will develop the Aircrew Performance Measurement and Proficiency System (A-PuMPS). When complete, A-PuMPS will contain two primary system components. The first component is training-focused; it will ingest streaming simulator data to develop reliable, valid, and unobtrusive measures of Warfighter proficiency during training. The second component is data science-focused. It will systematically merge, aggregate, de-identify, store, clean, fuse, visualize, and model the Warfighter proficiency data to support proactive, data science-driven decision making.