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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.
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Protect and Grow the SBIR Program
College Station, Texas, October 19, 2011
Innovation PAC, a political action committee for SBIR innovators, is hosting an online petition aimed at protecting the SBIR program currently under threat in Congress. Sign the petition and help protect this valuable program and the small business innovators and entrepreneurs it supports.
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New Phase I: IDEAL
College Station, Texas, October 17, 2011
KBSI is developing an innovative information analysis enabling capability called Information DiscovEry Assistant that Learns (IDEAL) that will allow users to collaboratively perform example based searches of information in support of specific analysis goals. The IDEAL technologies will enable analysts to perform searches using a variety of inputs beyond keywords, will use search examples to derive an understanding of analysts’ goals, and will connect analysts working on similar problems or to developments in related areas.
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New Contract Award: ES-MaTe
College Station, Texas, May 10, 2011
In this Phase I initiative, KBSI is researching and developing an efficient sensor resource management (SRM) method that will allow MDA planners to schedule sensor resources specific to missile defense networks and the heterogeneous tasks they're required to perform. The focus in this phase of the project will be on investigating innovative methodologies and algorithms for the management of sensors in complex, dynamic, and distributed sensor networks.
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Phase I Award: RAPIDS
College Station, Texas, April 12, 2011
For this newly awarded Phase I initiative, KBSI is researching the design of a real-time, effects-directed, collaborative planning environment that will help military planners in their development and management of manned and unmanned aircraft missions. The Real-time Assessment, Planning, and Integrated Decision Support (RAPIDS ™) technology is an automated environment that will allow military planners to more effectively maintain situation awareness of the world state conditions, constraints, and goals, in real time, governing the planned use of manned and unmanned aircraft.
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New Phase I Contract: FAST
College Station, Texas, March 31, 2011
In this newly awarded initiative, KBSI is designing an innovative simulation-based training system that will improve Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA)-operator airspace situation awareness. The Framework for Airspace Situation-awareness Training (FAST) technology will allow users to create instructionally sound scenario-based training content for airspace management and de-confliction in manned and RPA systems, improving aircraft operation and airspace management and reducing safety risks.
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MiNPAC Wins Phase I Contract
College Station, Texas, March 30, 2011
KBSI's Multi-Source Network Pulse Analyzer and Correlator (MiNPAC) project has been awarded a Phase I contract. The project will develop technology to help military course of action (COA) planners to more effectively contend with the state of flux that characterizes modern asymmetric warfare. MiNPAC will allow users to characterize the state space and entities that make up large social networks and to discover emerging themes, trends, patterns of beliefs, sentiments, etc. using multi-source data collected from these networks.
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MTNDEW Receives Phase I Funding
College Station, Texas, February 28, 2011
KBSI has been awarded Phase I funding to research and design an experimental framework for Mission-aware Trusted Sensor Networks for Distributed Electronic Warfare (MTNDEW). The MTNDEW framework is a modeling and simulation suite of tools that supports the characterization, development, testing, and deployment of monitoring, detection, recovery, exploitation, and attack technology. The MTNDEW technology will address the need for methods and frameworks that support the analysis of network security control architecture performance via the use of executable architecture concepts.
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Phase I Award: HOTWINGS
College Station, Texas, February 28, 2011
In this new Phase I initiative, KBSI is researching and developing a High-Output Training With INtegrated Gaming Support (HOTWINGS) system that provides a shareable, game-based objects gateway (SGOG) for integrating training systems. The initiative is developing methods for integrating lighter game-based training systems with full-scale simulation systems, a capability that would enable the synergistic operation of different training systems and development of virtual training models that are more inexpensive to develop and more efficient.
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New Phase II Award: CYANIDE
College Station, Texas, February 24, 2011
KBSI's Cyber Network Attack and Intrusion Detection and Recovery Environment (CYANIDE) initiative has been awarded a Phase II contract. The initiative is developing a customizable environment that supports the modeling, development, test, and deployment of sensing, monitoring and recovery technology for centralized and distributed cyber attacks on a wide range of sensor and information networks. The CYANIDE technology will provide a comprehensive experimentation framework that supports a wide range of attack, detection, and recovery modules, helping network security specialists and researchers keep pace with fast moving developments in cyber networks and cyber network threats.
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TechSPERT™ Receives Phase I Funding
College Station, Texas, January 28, 2011
KBSI has been awarded a contract to research and develop methods and technologies that will help the Air Force improve the delivery of critical engineering knowledge and technical expertise to their MRO processes. The Technical Support and Professional Engineering in Real-Time (TechSPERT™) initiative is developing (i) a reengineered engineering technical support (ETS) process; (ii) a knowledge capture, discovery, exploitation, and management methodology; and (iii) a blueprint for augmenting standard Air Force product life cycle management (PLM), engineering data management, and engineering analysis systems.
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KBSI Wins Phase I Funding to Develop Cyber Security Technology
College Station, Texas, January 5, 2011
KBSI has been awarded funding to research and design an experimental framework for Mission-aware Trusted Sensor Networks for Distributed Electronic Warfare (MTNDEW). The MTNDEW framework is a modeling and simulation suite of tools that support the characterization, development, testing, and deployment of monitoring, detection, recovery, exploitation, and attack technology using advanced application-aware, distributed data fusion and re-routing algorithms in Electronic Warfare (EW) networks. The technology addresses the need for methods and frameworks that support the analysis of network security control architecture performance via the use of executable architecture concepts.
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KBSI Awarded Funding to Improve RPA Operator Training
College Station, Texas, January 5, 2011
KBSI has received Phase I funding to develop an innovative simulation-based training system that will improve Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA)-operator airspace situation awareness. The Framework for Airspace Situation-awareness Training (FAST) technology will allow users to create instructionally sound scenario-based training content for airspace management and de-confliction in manned and RPA systems.
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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 Receives Phase I Funding for iRPG
College Station, Texas, September 29, 2010
KBSI has received funding to research, design, and develop an intelligence Rapid Product Generator (iRPG) that is an extension of KBSI’s ModelMosaic® knowledge management framework. The iRPG technology will enable users to develop application services that help assess courses of action (COA) and to develop workflows that address specific domain ontology questions, allowing the warfighter to make more effective use of intelligence data.
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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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New Initiative: Systems Engineering Support
College Station, Texas, December 14, 2009
KBSI is working with the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) to provide systems engineering program management support for the development phases of the CCAD Smart Transmission Test System (STTS). This initiative will allow CCAD to improve transmission and gearbox test capabilities by helping them acquire and install a state of the art test system infrastructure that includes re-configurable smart test equipment integrated with a streamlined test process.
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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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