KBSI's ATLAS Project Receives SBIR Army Acheivement 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 2009 Acheivement Award from the U.S. Army. The Army evaluates nominees for Acheivement Awards according to level of innovation, relevance to the mission, commercialization potential, and overall quality performance.

KBSI's Mike Painter (center) and Scott Coker (right) receive an Army 2009 Acheivement Award at the Pentagon awards ceremony.

 
  Of the 471 eligible projects, 37 nominations were made and 11 projects were ultimately given awards.

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 Phase II Award: ONSITE

College Station, Texas, May 26, 2010

The Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected KBSI's Open Source Information Tactical Exploitation (ONSITE) proposal for phase II funding. ONSITE uses an innovative approach to natural language processing (NLP) to significantly increase processing rates for natural language understanding in support of military tactical operations.  The ONSITE technology deviates from traditional statistical and grammar rule-based approaches to shallow NLP (e.g., from part-of-speech and phrase chunking) by instead using a specially constructed ontology that produced higher processing throughput and increased the semantic resolution of extracted information. 

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KBSI Receives NSRP Project Award

College Station, Texas, May 5, 2010

The Executive Control Board of the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) has announced awards for new research projects as part of the Navy/Industry co-funded portfolio focusing on cost reduction in the U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair industry. NSRP, with the support of Navy funding, periodically awards major R&D projects through which new technologies and innovative processes can be developed and implemented as a means for reducing shipbuilding and repair costs for the Navy and the industry at large.

The Process Oriented Visual Planning Tool (POV Planner) Project, led by Todd Pacific Shipyards, will develop a user-friendly production planning tool that incorporates data from three commercial software tools: a Product Modeler (ShipConstructor), a Product Visualization Tool (NavisWorks) and KBSI's Work Simulation Tool (WorkSim®). The POV Planner will consist of a complete set of standard shipbuilding process templates and a suite of tools.

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 blood management web site BASIS (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.

BASIS is one of the first systems approved by DHS for categorical inclusion as PCII. The PCII version of BASIS 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 

 

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."


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.

 

Upcoming Events

Beyond Phase II Conference, San Antonio, TX, September 13-17
Luther G. Jones Aviation Summit, Corpus Christi, TX, October 12-15
International Telemetering Conference 2010, San Diego, CA, October 25-28
SNAME Annual Meeting and Expo 2010, Seattle/Bellevue, WA, November 3-5
2010 ONR Naval Science and Technology Partnership Conference, Arlington, VA, November 8-10
Defense Manufacturing Conference 2010, Las Vegas, NV, November 29-December 2
International Society for Disease Surveillance 9th Annual Conference 2010, Salt Lake City, UT, November 30-December 2
 

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