VIRTUALITICS INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: DTRA222-001

Description

The Nuclear Logistics Technical Division (NLT) maintains databases and application services pertaining to the national nuclear stockpile. The sensitivity of this data necessitates careful and close monitoring for anomalous activities that could indicate a cybersecurity threat or other deviation from the normal operating environment. Virtualitics seek to apply anomaly detection methods to event and access data to demonstrate the capabilities of using artificial intelligence techniques to recognize the usage patterns and identify anomalous activity. Additionally, Virtualitics will leverage our existing low-code environment to demonstrate how this model can be integrated to continually monitor the cyber-health of the system and enhance end-user workflow. To provide the capabilities described in this proposal, Virtualitics will leverage its core commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solution, the Virtualitics AI Platform (VAIP), a low-code artificial intelligence (AI) based data analytics and visualization product. The VAIP is based on over 10 years of research at the California Institute of Technology and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The VAIP is a rapidly deployable end-to-end solution to quickly preprocess and fuse data, build predictive AI models, create knowledge graphs, and discover trends, anomalies, and insights using a best-in-class data analytics and immersive 3D visualization platform for easy interpretation, exploration and collaboration.  The VAIP merges AI with advanced visualization software to create mission-specific interactive analytic workflows to allow users, regardless of their background, to quickly discover insights in complex multi-source disparate datasets. The embedded AI guides within the VAIP allow the user to rapidly discover insights using explainable AI techniques and recommend ways to visualize those insights for optimal human understanding. The VAIP’s powerful predictive analytics and data fusion system generates easy-to-consume interactive reports and dashboards for accelerated data-driven decision making. The patented technology for 3D visualization enables users to intuitively visualize their insights in multiple dimensions at the same time (x, y, z, color, size, time, etc.) including geospatially and multidimensional knowledge graphs. The VAIP offer a Python Application Programming Interface (API) allowing users to link custom scripts to the platform. The user can use these scripts to preprocess and fuse data for ingestion into the VAIP where it can run the embedded AI algorithms to analyze and visualize the data. Importantly, the API provides the ability to automate analytic workflows, saving users countless hours, and improving the speed, accuracy, and granularity of data analysis. Through the API, users can create custom AI algorithms designed for specific mission purposes and then leverage the VAIP to configure workflows, visualize dashboards and communicate the results across the enterprise.