Raytheon Bbn Technologies Corp.

Florida Institute of Technology

Harris Corporation

Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.

Marco Mattos Carvalho

Thomas C Eskridge

Michael Hassan Atighetchi

Brett Benyo

Fusun Yaman

Paul J Feltovich

Shubha L Kadambe

Benjamin J Haan

Matthew Johnson

Jeffrey M Bradshaw

Jerome Sonnenberg

Thomas Eskridge

Lawrence K Bunch

Richard Ford

James Lott

Larry Bunch

Maggie Breedy

Andrzej Uszok

Roger Carff

Carlos Arturo Perez Monsalve

A system and method for deploying software agents in a policy-governed environment. The use of over-arching policies to control the actions and interactions of the software agents preserves desirable agent autonomy without allowing unwanted and potentially unpredictable (or at least difficult-to-predict) agent behavior. The system allows the agents to be deployed in a high-assurance environment.

Policy governed software agent system and method of operation

A decision engine includes: a genetic algorithm framework including a knowledge base of standard configurations, a candidate selector generator and a selector to select a candidate configuration from a plurality of preferred standard configurations in response to the candidate selector generator; a parallelized reasoning framework including an attack surface reasoning algorithm module to compute the security and cost tradeoffs of an attack surface associated with each candidate configuration; and a user interface framework including a web service engine where users can interact and provide feedback on direction of an evolution used in a genetic algorithm search for evolving defenses.

User interface supporting an integrated decision engine for evolving defenses

Multi-dimensional heuristic search as part of an integrated decision engine for evolving defenses

A communication network is defended using a distributed infrastructure that leverages coordination across disparate abstraction levels. At each node computing device comprising a communication network, a stored event list is used to detect at least one node event which occurs at a machine code level and is known to have the potential to interfere directly with the internal operation of the node computing device. The at least one node event is one which is exclusive of an event within a network communication domain. In response to detecting the at least one node event at one of the plurality of network nodes, an optimal network-level defensive action is automatically selectively determined by the network. The network level defensive action will involve a plurality of network nodes comprising the communication network.

Cross-layer correlation in secure cognitive network

A method for behavior based Friend/Foe/Neutral determination is disclosed. The method receives RF communications from a plurality of perceived entities and records a plurality of first level characteristics of the RF communications. The method determines, from an analysis of the first level characteristics a plurality of second level characteristics of the RF communications. From these second level characteristics, the method determines transmission patterns of the entities over time which lead to an ultimate classification of the perceived entity as a Friend/Foe/Neutral based on the patterns.

Behavior based friend foe neutral determination method

A method for visually depicting complex events. Software agents are preferably employed to assist the human operator by collecting, enriching, selecting, aggregating, and analyzing data so that patterns of interest can be visually flagged or otherwise emphasized in the visual display. Events are depicted as an 'event flow' from a source surface to a destination surface. Intervening surfaces may also be defined. The point of origin on the source surface reveals some information about the event flow, as does the point of impact on the destination surface. The event flow may be mapped to one or more intervening surfaces in order to visually depict other characteristics of the event. The entire depiction is rendered in a simulated three-dimensional view. The user is preferably given the ability to pan, zoom, and reorient the vantage point from which the user 'views' the depiction on the computer display.

Event data visualization tool

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Marco Mattos Carvalho