ARETE ASSOCIATES — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: DTRA21B-001

ARETE ASSOCIATES — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$173,970
Agency
Department of Defense · Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Program / Phase
STTR · Phase I
Topic
DTRA21B-001
Solicitation
21.B
NAICS
Place of performance
CA
Period
2022-02-10 → 2022-09-09

Description

The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Generation Data Augmentation (SIGDA) system is achieved using SAR simulators and the Arete’s Reification approach. Large, realistic datasets will be generated using the Arete Reification capability. These large Reified datasets are then used to train machine learning or Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) classification algorithms for SAR as well as other remote sensor applications. The resulting SIGDA system using SAR simulations and Reification addresses directly one of the know shortcomings that have hindered acceptance and adoption of deep learning classification capabilities, namely the lack of real data for training and the potential limited accuracy of simulated data