SBIR-STTR Award

Automating Air Travel Safety Analysis with AI-Driven Machines
Award last edited on: 6/23/2022

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : AF
Total Award Amount
$875,000
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
AF191-009
Principal Investigator
Chad Dalton

Company Information

Geospark Analytics Inc

13221 Woodland Park Road Suite 330
Herndon, VA 20171
   (800) 674-8398
   info.geospark.io
   www.geospark.io
Location: Single
Congr. District: 11
County: Fairfax

Phase I

Contract Number: FA8652-19-P-HN08
Start Date: 3/6/2019    Completed: 6/4/2019
Phase I year
2019
Phase I Amount
$125,000
Hyperion has direct and immediate application to the Air Forces Global Combat Support System (GCSS-AF) and other C3I&N systems by providing situational awareness, threat detection, and early warning alerts in support of force planning, readiness assessments, and intelligence operations. Hyperion can be an immediate and substantial force multiplier to all C3I&N missions by using non-traditional data sources, artificial intelligence (AI), and shifting the traditional focus on current activities to one that uses future forecasts of the operational environment.The Hyperion risk and threat assessment platform integrates layers of unclassified data and algorithms to aggregate, categorize, and ingest open source data such as RSS, news feeds, and social media. Hyperions AI analyzes the content of data feeds, calculates stability, makes forecasts, and builds summaries to display global events that impact risk and stability levels. This provides analysts with a powerful tool and an Application Programming Interface (API) that is easily integrated into GCSS-AF and other C3I&N systems.Hyperion addresses key aspects of the Pitch Day in C3I&N BAA, specifically the ability to use commercial AI/ML data exploitation to automatically extract valuable information from massive, multimodal, dynamic data, and ingesting large volumes of data that are not routinely used across the enterprise.artificial intelligence,machine learning,Situational awareness,early warning,Threat Detection,risk,Social media,Open Source Data

Phase II

Contract Number: FA8726-20-C-0011
Start Date: 6/15/2020    Completed: 6/15/2022
Phase II year
2020
Phase II Amount
$750,000
The Air Force (AF) Operations Support Squadrons (OSS), Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Air Operations Centers (AOC), seek a robust technology to transform their OSINT mission and automate publicly available information (PAI) through the use AI technologies. Geospark Analytics looks forward to continue to build the force of the future and building upon the significant milestones it has already reached to bring users to the next level of actionable intelligence. Geospark Analytics' Hyperion offers artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that automate risk and threat intelligence forecasts. Using PAI from news, social media, open government and NGO sources, Hyperion's applied machine learning (ML) models are continually assessing risk and activity at the global, country, region, and city levels on real-time events. Phase II objective is to enhance our commercial solution, Hyperion, with aero-specific content and develop unique ML-modeling to bring OSS and ISR units AF specific threat and risk assessments. This is directly applicable to AF operations and intelligence missions. Specifically, Phase I exhibited Hyperion as an immediate and substantial force multiplier to OSS, ISR and AOC missions by shifting analysis of current activities to a future forecast of the operational environment.