Cognitively Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Automated Detection, Classification, and Characterization

The Objective of this Direct to Phase II (DP2) Effort is to develop a human-level/human-style artificial intelligence (AI) that can perceive and explain signals implicit in magnetics, electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR), and acoustics data to achieve long-range detection, tracking, and classification of maritime surface and subsurface contacts, which is an essential and imperative Naval capability. Work will include further development of the AI prototype and its demonstration on "natural" (i.e., real-world) data in a realistic Navy war game simulation, performance of sea trials data collection of individual vessels in terms of feature identification performance, operational agility, and accuracy, and performance of limited sea trial test data analysis of surface and subsurface objects.