Cognitive Systems Integration

Imagine what you can do better, faster, and smarter with an intelligent assistant

Aptima’s Cognitive Systems Integration (CSI) capability designs, builds, and deploys assistive technologies that augment the cognitive performance of humans in data-intensive, mission-critical environments from military missions to healthcare. CSI combines a deep understanding of complex cognitive processes with design-thinking and rapid prototyping to create technologies that fit human workflows.

These assistive technologies feature custom AI, machine learning, and interactive modalities to:

Learn user work patterns and expectations
Predict information needs for more efficient, insightful problem solving
Enhance situational awareness and decision support
Allocate tasks for optimal workflow and human-machine collaboration

Cognitive Systems Integration in Action

Defense: From the millions of complex attack and response simulations run for ballistic missile defense, CSI helps defense analysts correlate patterns and visualize data to understand real-world defense gaps and those due to simulation models.
Intel: For analysts parsing terabytes of data to answer critical questions, CSI’s contextually-aware searches narrow down and identify key information by orders of magnitude, saving analysts innumerable hours and steps.
Healthcare: Intensive care unit patients and families often face anxiety, uncertainty, and limited healthcare knowledge. CSI develops healthcare apps that facilitate information flow and understanding amongst patients, families, and clinical support teams to improve communications and quality of care.
Autonomous Vehicles: Operators of unmanned vehicles must quickly resolve system error codes to prevent a cascade of malfunctions. CSI’s multi-flow reasoning provides operators with intelligent triage and expert next-step recommendations to manage error codes and alerts.
Maintenance: Complex aircraft involve a range of design, engineering, and repair personnel, all of whom touch on and affect interrelated systems. CSI enables team collaboration while reconciling the continuous changes in systems, data, and repair status.

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Related Projects

Personal Digital Assistant for Intelligence Analysts

Data collection capabilities for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations continuously improve, generating more data more quickly and across an ever-increasing spectrum of modalities than can be handled by human analysts alone. Although personal digital assistant technology has emerged in the commercial domain to support the basic, consistent needs of users, it is a challenging proposition to design such systems to help human decision makers and cognitive workers in data-rich environments that are dynamic, noisy, uncertain, and ambiguous, and where the cost of a mistake is measured in human lives. In response to this need, Aptima and partners, PatchPlus Consulting, ASTi, and Raytheon, developed HERMIONE, the Human-awarE Reasoner for Multimodal Interactive Operations in Networked Environments. HERMIONE is designed to be a conversational digital assistant for analysts that proactively brings critical information to their attention in a naturalistic manner to optimize overall system performance. HERMIONE quickly provides information on demand and streamlines routine tasks, while engaging analysts in multimodal conversations that best fit their current workflow and objectives. Ultimately, HERMIONE will enable analysts to better understand the complex information environment, and thereby improve the efficiency of decision making and the quality of the reports produced. This work was funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory under Contract FA8650-19-P-6079. The material above has been previously released by the Government at https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1650701.

Visual Analytics Tool for Transportation and Safety Engineers

Current access to and analysis of the Fatal Analysis Reporting System (FARS) dataset requires significant time and technical skill. Data analysis tools are often general-purpose, designed to support the analysis of any dataset, and do not easily support the types of questions many transportation and safety engineers ask of the FARS data. Visualizations can help users understand relationships between variables and uncover patterns in their data. Aptima designed the Collaboration-Optimized Network for Naturalistic Exploration and Communication about Traffic (CONNECT) tool to empower users to collaboratively create and share visualizations of FARS. CONNECT simplifies the process of creating visualizations by making the entire FARs dataset immediately accessible through a tailored interface and experience, improving exploratory analysis. Users are able to reuse their own analyses and utilize visualizations shared by others, saving time when creating analysis products while also increasing quality. CONNECT visualizations can be shared with any audience as dynamic, web-based content or as traditional static media. In Phase I, Aptima designed the user interface and software architecture, and developed a limited functionality prototype for CONNECT. The objective in Phase II is to continue developing both the prototype and a viable commercialization plan. This work is being funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center under contract 6913G619P800151. The material above has been previously released by the Government at https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1659517.