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Adversary Behavior Acquisition, Collection, Understanding, and Summarization (ABACUS) Tool

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W15P7T-12-C-A319
Agency Tracking Number: A2-5123
Amount: $499,177.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A11-035
Solicitation Number: 2011.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2011
Award Year: 2012
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2012-09-12
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
625 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA -
United States
DUNS: 115243701
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Sam Mahoney
 Senior Scientist
 (617) 491-3474
 smahoney@cra.com
Business Contact
 Mark Felix
Title: Contracts Manager
Phone: (617) 491-3474
Email: mfelix@cra.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

Despite advances in collection technologies, US forces still rely on dangerous, close-range Soldier reporting to help identify threats. Similarly, advances in fusion technologies have not supplanted the need for human analysis of data to formulate actionable intelligence. To address these issues, we designed and demonstrated Adversary Behavior Acquisition, Collection, Understanding, and Summarization (ABACUS) services to proactively uncover hostile adversary intent by exploiting multiple sources of existing intelligence (e.g., COMINT, HUMINT). Under Phase I, we demonstrated the feasibility of ABACUS by integrating in-house software and representative data. Our successful Phase I effort provides the basis for a Phase II effort focused on designing, developing, and evaluating the three components of ABACUS: (1) a plug-and-play data processing architecture that ingests the output of text analytics tools operating on multi-source intelligence and provides a common semantic representation to aggregate information across multiple dimensions; (2) an inference engine that uses models of human behavior to compute intent-based threat assessments of individuals and groups; and, (3) a tool that integrates these capabilities into existing and evolving DoD systems (e.g., DCGS-A) for Army intelligence analysts. Phase II will focus on maturation and transition of cloud-based ABACUS technology via early and frequent engagement with the I2WD TCIL.

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