UTOPIACOMPRESSION,CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: Technological advances have significantly increased the complexity and speed of most opera

Description

Technological advances have significantly increased the complexity and speed of most operational environments resulting in escalating pressure on warfighters and an even greater need for constant optimization of team behaviors. There is an acute need for improved technologies to fuse disparate situational intelligence data and assess warfighters"Cognitive Readiness (CR) levels in context of operational goals. The ability to perform these assessments in real-time would substantially improve commanders"overall situational awareness and provide a significant tool to assist deployed forces in maintaining optimal CR levels and collaboration capabilities. To this end, UtopiaCompression (UC) is proposing an integrated sensor and data analysis solution which contains a suite of innovative and substantial intelligent analysis tools and is capable of quickly, accurately, and reliably estimating CR levels of individuals/teams through sensing and fusing a number of non-invasive external cues. The major advantages of UC"s proposed technology include: 1) A set of innovative data analysis algorithms; 2) A flexible and extensible probabilistic multi-modality fusion model capable of optimally/robustly estimating CR levels based on available resources and expanding to handle any number and type of external cues; 3) The proposed system can also naturally integrate domain expert assessment and be applied in both static/dynamic environments.