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New Phase I: TraceLogic
College Station, Texas, March 4, 2013
In this new Phase I initiative, KBSI is developing methods, processes and algorithms to decipher the hidden rules or logic of complex flight operations aboard Navy aircraft carriers. The TraceLogic technology will help the Navy to better understand and address the technical and pragmatic problems associated with improving flight operation performance.
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Phase I Award: CDAT
College Station, Texas, February 26, 2013
In this new Phase I initiative, KBSI is designing and developing a Cohort Development and Analysis Toolkit (CDAT) that will help clinicians, healthcare administrators and public health professionals to compare the effectiveness of different clinical practices, including preventive and treatment modalities. CDAT will allow healthcare professionals to better leverage the large amounts of healthcare data available in electronic health records, facilitating cohort development and analysis along the entire healthcare spectrum: healthcare providers, patients, systems and processes, and case management/discharge planning.
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New Phase II Award: FALCON
College Station, Texas, February 1, 2013
In Phase II of the FALCON initiative, KBSI is developing LCMS components that provide automated training content generation directed to the individual or teams being trained. The technology will support the authoring, assembly, and delivery of ‘hybrid’ training that combines Content Based Training (CBT) with Simulation Based Training (SBT) and that integrates training information and standards in a hybrid architecture.
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New Initiative: TAKE Phase II.5
College Station, Texas, January 30, 2013
The TAKE™ Phase II.5 initiative is transitioning TAKE™ initiative results to KBSI's ONR-funded Intelligence Rapid Product Generation (iRPG) technology with the goal of addressing technology gaps in iRPG. The initiative is addressing the iRPG technical voids associated with rapidly designing, developing, and deploying large scale knowledge intensive applications, and with providing knowledge life cycle management.
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KBSI's DonorHART™ Technology Receives Copyright
College Station, Texas, October 10, 2012
KBSI now holds a federally registered copyright for the DonorHART™ software program. The DonorHART™ web-based technology captures and analyzes donor reaction information from U.S. blood centers, allowing stakeholders to track the different reaction rates, provide baseline metrics for those rates, and to analyze the trends and changes in reaction rates over time. The system also provides insights into the factors affecting reaction rates and facilitates the ability to hypothesize, design, and analyze interventions (and assess their impacts) with the goal of improving donor and donation safety.
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KBSI Recieves Phase II Award for MiNPAC
College Station, Texas, October 1, 2012
KBSI has received Phase II funding to continue the development of the Multi-Source Network Pulse Analyzer and Correlator (MiNPAC). This technology allows military planners to improve situational awareness and course of action (COA) planning by helping them to determine emerging themes, trends, patterns of beliefs, sentiments, etc. from multi-source data in large social networks. Planners can then correlate their findings with structural and behavioral dynamics within the same or related social networks. The MiNPAC technology will help planners to more effectively understand the complex web of dynamic elements of enemy combatants' demographic, political, military, economic, social, information and infrastructure dimensions.
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New Phase II Award: IDEAL
College Station, Texas, October 1, 2012
KBSI has received a Phase II award to continue developing an innovative information analysis enabling capability called Information DiscovEry Assistant that Learns (IDEAL). The IDEAL technology will allow users to collaboratively perform example based searches of information in support of specific analysis goals. Analysts will be able to perform searches using a variety of inputs beyond keywords, and the IDEAL technology will use search examples to derive an understanding of analysts’ goals and connect with analysts working on similar problems or with developments in related areas.
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Phase I Award: ADVICE
College Station, Texas, July 12, 2012
The Advanced Visualizations and User Interfaces for Cyber Situational Awareness (ADVICE) initiative is designing and assembling an innovative experimental framework for developing cyber security controls, providing cyber situational awareness and evaluating cyber security control architectures. KBSI is working with SA Technologies, Inc. in creating the extensible ADVICE framework that supports the use of state-of-the-art computer-human interaction technologies and newer visualization paradigms to maximize the situational awareness (SA) of cyber systems.
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New Phase I: AARDIS
College Station, Texas, July 6, 2012
KBSI has received Phase I funding to research advanced electronic warfare (EW) training methods and tools that reduce the cognitive workload of instructors, improve training effectiveness, accelerate improvements in student performance, and reduce costs. The goal of the After-action Review and Debrief Intelligent Support (AARDIS) project is to maintain pilot training excellence in the face of rising costs and changes in how modern warfare is conducted. The AARDIS technology will augment current high-fidelity Air Force EW training technology and will be easily configurable to a variety of training platform requirements.
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NODE™ Receives Patent
College Station, Texas, May 1, 2012
The Netcentric Operations Defense Environment (NODE™) system uses data mining and machine learning technologies to provide a more advanced and adaptable computer network defense. Current approaches to network security focus on characterizing known attack exploits and on a perimeter-based defense, making them vulnerable to new attack variants and leaving them open to integrity compromises and insider attacks. NODE™ addresses these shortcomings by executing data mining and machine learning technologies and algorithms over the network hosts: i.e., over the entire computing fabric.
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New Phase I: CEPHIED VARIABLE
College Station, Texas, March 21, 2012
The Cyber-Physical-Electromagnetic Spectrum Integrated Domain Mapping Toolkit for Vulnerability Analysis and Critical Resource Identification Enablement (CEPHEID VARIABLE) initiative is developing technologies for the analysis of assets, systems, and networks for vulnerabilities and risks, both cyber and physical.
Analysts will be able to acquire, model, store, and map vulnerability and dependency analyses of networks linking cyber and physical resources like electrical grids and computer systems, allowing them to better prepare and respond to network compromises resulting from attack or natural disasters.
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New Phase I: ECLiPSE
College Station, Texas, March 21, 2012
In this new Phase I initiative, KBSI is developing essential, closed-loop planning, scheduling, and execution (ECLiPSE) support tools for maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) enterprises. The ECLiPSE technology will provide collaborative task planning (scripting) support along with collaborative, simulation-based dispatch planning and scheduling.
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New Phase I: FALCON
College Station, Texas, March 21, 2012
In the Framework for Adaptive Learning CONtent Management Delivery (FALCON) initiative, KBSI is researching and designing an innovative training framework that provides training content management and content delivery using multiple training modes at multiple levels of fidelity. The FALCON technology will also provide mechanisms for automated and adaptive training performance assessment and testing and be compliant with current training system standards including SCORM, HLA, and DIS.
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Phase I Award: CAKE
College Station, Texas, March 21, 2012
In this new initiative, KBSI is designing and demonstrating a semantic framework that will support information discovery, sense making, and presentation in a dynamic, collaborative environment. The CAKE technology will help defense and security analysts make better, more timely sense of the increasing amounts of intelligence data they gather.
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New Research Initiative: C2P3
College Station, Texas, February 17, 2012
KBSI is working with the Department of Defense to research and develop a a knowledge-based framework for collaborative, multi-echelon missile defense planning. The Composable Command Post Planner Prototype (C2P3) initiative addresses the DoD's need for automated planning support tools to reduce planning time and effort and to promote a the optimized application of assets in support of competing mission goals for ballistic missile defense.
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KBSI Wins Champion of Small Innovation Award
College Station, Texas, January 18, 2012
After almost over 3 years and 14 short-term extensions, a long-term Small Business Innovation Research reauthorization bill was signed into law late last year by President Obama. To recognize the work of the many individuals, companies, and organizations who volunteered their time, energy, and money to this years-long effort, Small Business Technology Council (SBTC) members nominated companies whose contributions most deserved notice.
The Champion of Small Business Innovation Award recognizes KBSI's contributions to the SBIR reauthorization effort and the recent passage of the SBIR reauthorization bill. SBTC will be holding an awards ceremony in Washington D.C. on February 2nd for 2012 winners. The reception and ceremony are being held in conjunction with the annual National Small Business Association Board Meeting.
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KBSI Receives New Phase I Award
College Station, Texas, November 22, 2011
KBSI has been awarded a Phase I contract to develop the Mobile Application for Healthcare, Epidemiology, and Safety (MAES) technology, a mobile application that provides location based alerts and advice on healthcare, epidemiology and safety. The MAES technology will collect data from multiple sources and data formats; extract healthcare, epidemiology and safety information; analyze trends, patterns and geospatial analyses; and forecast comprehensive, multi-dimensional health and safety statuses to users.
KBSI Recognized at ITC Conference
College Station, Texas, November 2, 2010
KBSI was among the winners at this year's International Telemetry Conference (ITC) in San Diego. Each year the ITC recognizes a handful of individual papers among the hundreds presented at the conference.
This year's winners include "IHAL and Web Service Interfaces to Vendor Configuration Engines" which received the Telemetry Standards Coordination Committee (TSCC)’s Lawrence Rauch Award for Best Paper on Telemetry Standards. KBSI's John Hamilton, Timothy Darr, and Ronald Fernandes wrote the paper with Joe Sulewski of L-3 Telemetry East and Charles Jones from Edwards AFB. The paper describes the use of KBSI's Instrumentation Hardware Abstraction Language (IHAL) and a standardized web service API to control instrumentation hardware in a neutral way.
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The paper “Dynamic Frequency Assignment and Management Technologies for Future Test and Evaluation Operations” received this year's Myron Hiram Nichols Award for Telemetry Spectrum research. The paper's authors, KBSI's Mike Painter, Ronald Fernandes, Jason Gohlke, Ajay Verma, and Satheesh Ramachandran; and
Air Force Flight Test Center's Charles Jones describe how to optimize frequency scheduling, dynamic assignments, and real-time metrics adjustment to promote access to the electronic spectrum. |
Donor HART™ Technology Launches
College Station, Texas, October 11, 2010
KBSI's Donor HART ™ technology, developed in partnership with AABB and the Department of Health and Human Services, captures and analyzes donor reaction information from participating blood centers across the nation. The system helps users to monitor, analyze, and research the risks involved for donors at the time of blood donation and following the blood donation event. The Donor HART ™ technology is a web based application, and among the Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII) Program accredited sites that KBSI hosts. The PCII Program enhances information sharing between the private sector and the government and is used by the Department of Homeland Security and other federal, state, and local entities to analyze and secure critical infrastructure and protected systems as a means for enhancing recovery preparedness measures.
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KBSI Named NCDMM Partner
College Station, Texas, September 30, 2010
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KBSI has been admitted as an Alliance Partner by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining (NCDMM). The NCDMM was founded in 2003 with the mission of addressing and supporting the broad manufacturing and machining needs of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and its suppliers.
NCDMM Alliance Partners support the activities of the Center with state-of-the art skills and capabilities, providing significant manufacturing technology expertise that can be directly applied to the machining and manufacturing issues faced by DoD and contractor facilities today. |
KBSI's ATLAS Project Receives SBIR Army Achievement Award at Pentagon Ceremony
College Station, Texas, June 3, 2010
The Army Transformation in Logistics And Sustainment (ATLAS™) project, now in Phase II, has received a 2010 Achievement Award from the U.S. Army. The Army evaluates nominees for Achievement Awards according to level of innovation, relevance to the mission, commercialization potential, and overall quality performance.
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This year, 471 projects were eligible to compete, of which 11 (~2%) were selected for the award. Winners were selected based on (i) originality and innovation of research, (ii) relevance of the research to the Army mission, (iii) immediate commercialization potential of the research, and (iv) overall quality performance of the project.
The ATLAS™ technology provides a unified modeling, simulation, and experimentation framework for assessing the impacts of current and future force employment, maintenance doctrine, and resourcing strategies on warfighter “Go-to-War” capability.
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KBSI Technologies Featured in MDA's 2010 Technology Applications Report
College Station, Texas, June 3, 2010
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has included a feature on several KBSI technologies in their annual Technology Applications report. The report highlights innovative technologies originally funded for missile defense work, and the KBSI's Integrated Data Experimentation and Fusion System (IDEFS) and Ontology-driven Integration Framework (ODIF) initiatives are described in the report's Information Management section.
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KBSI Receives PCII Accreditation
College Station, TX
KBSI and its BASIS technology (www.usbloodreport.net), created for the Office of Public Health and Science, has been certified by the DHS and DHHS PCII Program Manager as PCII accredited.
The Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII) Program is an information protection program that enhances information sharing between the private sector and the government. The Department of Homeland Security and other federal, state and local analysts use PCII to
analyze and secure critical infrastructure and protected systems,
identify vulnerabilities and develop risk assessments, and
enhance recovery preparedness measures.
The BASIS technology is one of the first systems approved by DHS for categorical inclusion as PCII. The PCII version of the BASIS technology was released on July 8, 2009.
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KBSI is Named Among Best of Corpus Christi Businesses
College Station, Texas, July 6, 2009
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Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. has been selected for the 2009 Best of Corpus Christi Award in the Custom Computer Software Analysis category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. The USCA works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups, and their mission is advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America. |
Patents Pending
KBSI has filed for patents for POWER GENERATION APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS and NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION.
KBSI Included in 2008 Edition of NASA's Spinoff Magazine
| Spinoff magazine features successfully commercialized technologies developed under NASA funded SBIR initiatives. The KBSI work highlighted in the online edition focus on advanced planning, scheduling, and knowledge management technologies that help NASA meet the needs of their complex mission planning activities.
Learn more about KBSI's work with NASA by reading the online Spinoff entry "Software Schedules Missions, Aids Project Management." |
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KBSI Named Hallmark of Success Company
NASA has recognized KBSI's technology development work under the SBIR/STTR program by naming KBSI a Hallmark of Success Company.
NASA’s Hallmark of Success consists of a collection of short videos about successful companies that have transferred or commercialized NASA-funded technology by knowledge sharing, technical assistance, intellectual property licensing, cooperative research and/or technology projects.
KBSI personnel were interviewed concerning the following NASA projects; Knowledge Aided Mission Planning System, a software program demonstrating the power of planning and scheduling for missions; Ontology Driven Information Integration, a software program that model the meaning of terminology; Optimization Modeling Assistant, a software tool used to assist management in creating planning optimization models; Range Process Simulation Tool, which provided spaceport planning and scheduling support; and Toolkit of Enabling Adaptive Modeling and Simulation, used to develop, maintain, and reconfigure operations analysis models to spaceport.
A video was developed by NASA's Langley Research Center's SBIR STTR Office and highlights KBSI's work on a number of NASA funded projects.
For more information about the Success Stories program, visit the NASA's Success Story Gateway.
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