SBIR/STTR Research Award

Artificial Intelligence (AI) improving NGA intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission effectiveness

Award identifier c0a5e8533f8080f0ccfc3189d7c884a09f59072a64f2c5c3d74ed06213d79aecAwarding agency Department of Defense · Air Force

Award amount

$50,000

Program and phase

SBIR · Phase I

Award year

2020

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Award details

Awarding agency
Department of Defense
Branch
Air Force
Recipient company
PILOT AI LABS, INC.
Proposal award date
2020-03-09
Contract end date
2020-06-08
UEI
HKT8FLZLGTY4
Solicitation number
X20.1
Topic code
J201-CSO1

Research abstract

Today’s analysts spend increasing hours exploiting full-motion and still imagery, leaving thousands of hours on the cutting room floor. This leaves significantly important intelligence information out of U.S. hands. If the NGA adopted current commercial Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, it would allow their FMV and remote sensing imagery analysts to process imagery, in greater quantities, faster, and even at the edge, using low-power computing. Furthermore, this would allow analysts to assess the information and make decisions much faster, bolstering NGA intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission effectiveness. Pilot AI develops computationally efficient neural networks for performing object detection, classification, and tracking within Full Motion Video (FMV) and still imagery. The combination of high accuracy, made possible by neural networks, and computational efficiency has enabled Pilot AI’s software-only solution to be broadly deployed commercially. Facilitated by partnerships with Qualcomm, ARM, and NXP, Pilot AI’s proven commercial solution is already delivering enhanced capabilities on millions of consumer and commercial devices around the world. Pilot AI’s core technology is threefold. The first aspect is state-of-the-art deep learning-based computer vision. Second is the accelerated model building blocks that have a unique adaptive neural network structure that dynamically scales with the complexity of input. Finally, Pilot AI’s software is hardware agnostic and runs on all existing commodity chipsets ARM, x86, NVIDIA, DSPs, Neural Net ASICs, and FPGAs.

Technology keywords

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Research funding history

3 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2019–2020). Reported award amounts total $1,600,000. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.

Phases: Phase I, Phase II

Agencies: Department of Defense

Agency intelligence

Department of Defense

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