Charles River Analytics has received a two-year, $500,000 contract to help U.S. Army  researchers create a virtual and augmented reality training interface for the service branch. The company said Monday it will develop the Virtual Interface for Real-Time User Control during Simulated Operations with partners Technology, Modeling and Simulation Consultants, Sensics and the Virtual Reality Medical Center. VIRTUOSO will be designed […] More

Charles River Analytics has secured two contracts from the U.S. Army to help the service branch predict faults in military operations systems using a company-owned open-source, probabilistic programming language. The company said Wednesday it will use the Figaro programming language to support the Energy Models of Critical Components and the Probabilistic Operations Warranted for Energy Reliability Evaluation and […] More

Charles River Analytics has joined a SiCore Technologies-led team that aims to help the U.S. Air Force detect and eliminate malware in avionics as part of a program to strengthen cybersecurity of the service branch’s platforms and weapons systems. Charles River said Tuesday it will create new technologies designed to prevent attacks on airborne ISR missions as a member on the SiCore […] More

Mukesh Dalal, former chief scientist at BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary, has joined Charles River Analytics as principal scientist of the decision management division at the Massachusetts-based defense and intelligence systems developer. Dalal’s research efforts focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning and reasoning, probabilistic modeling and optimization, decisionmaking and big data analytics, Charles River said Monday. He has obtained more than 10 patents and authored at […] More

Charles River Analytics has received a nine-month, $225,000 contract from the National Institutes for Health to develop a software system that will work to monitor cognitive changes related to cancer and treatment of the disease. The company said Tuesday the Cognitive Assessment and Monitoring Platform For Integrative Research is designed to integrate cognitive measures to evaluate changes in the patient’s cognitive […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded Charles River Analytics a two-year, $1 million follow-on contract to help the military branch develop a system for vulnerability analysis and create proactive defense strategies against cyber threats. Charles River said Monday the Cyber Attacker and Network Vulnerability Analysis and Simulation system will be built to help users examine adversary behavior in a network […] More

Charles River Analytics has received a potential two-year, $1 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a new system for the assessment and diagnosis of vestibular indicators of soldier operational readiness. Charles River said Monday the follow-on ADVISOR contract will fund work to create an in-field vestibular assessment platform that features electromyography, integrated video oculography, […] More

Charles River Analytics has secured a potential $3.75 million contract to help the  Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity develop probabilistic relational models as part of IARPA’s insider threat detection program. The company said Monday it formed a team comprised of Assured Information Security, Applied Marketing Science and Cognitio to support the Scientific advances to Continuous Insider Threat Detection Program. The consortium will […] More

Charles River Analytics has secured a potential $10.5 million contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to help IARPA develop an automated system to forecast impending cyber attacks. Charles River Analytics said Tuesday it will lead an interdisciplinary team of professionals from  Battelle, Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary, Assured Information Security, Arizona State University, George Mason University and […] More

Charles River Analytics and 5D Robotics will collaborate to develop a soldier-machine interface for U.S. Army robotic systems under a two-year, $1 million follow-on contract. The companies’ Multi-Modal Interface for Natural Operator Teaming with Autonomous Robots will integrate multiple tracking and robot control systems, Charles River said Nov 1. MINOTAUR is intended to provide an interface to warfighters who operate with autonomous systems […] More

ICF has tested Charles River Analytics‘ new semantic-based search tool designed to help U.S. Army intelligent tutoring system authors to search for existing training reference materials. Charles River said Tuesday ICF conducted a double-blind evaluation of the Content Retrieval and Extraction for Advanced Tutoring Environments in comparison with traditional keyword searching techniques. Instruction system designers who used […] More

NASA has awarded Charles River Analytics a two-year, $750,000 follow-on contract to develop a system for the space agency to measure and evaluate astronaut workload. The company said Monday it will collaborate with Massachusetts General Hospital and Brown University to build the Cognitive Assessment and Prediction to Promote Individualized Capability Augmentation and Reduce Decrement system for NASA. Bethany Bracken, a Charles River […] More