Applied Research in Acoustics LLC (ARiA) applies broad interdisciplinary expertise in acoustics, modeling & simulation, signal processing, and cognitive science toward innovative science and engineering R&D and consulting services for a diverse set of government and corporate clients. The company's products range from software tools that accelerate acoustical modeling to physics-based models of agent motion for video games. In addition, the company has capabilities and expertise spanning basic research to advanced development, offering Research and Development services as well as Strategic Consulting. The firm's specialities include: real-time physics-based modeling that enables enhanced simulation-based training; biologically inspired cognitive approaches to signal processing that enable automated systems to perform pattern recognition in complex and changing environments; and physics-based signal processing that utilizes understanding and models of physical processes such as scattering and reverberation in the ocean environment to mitigate their effects on target detection and classification.
