DARPA Intelligent Systems and Software Budget Code: ST-11
This activity leverages exploratory intelligent systems and software technology development that supports military, mission-oriented needs. It develops new information processing technology concepts that lead to fundamentally new software and intelligent systems capabilities. This will enable advanced information systems (involving both humans and computers) to more effectively accomplish decision-making tasks in stressful, time-sensitive situations and create efficient software systems supporting computer and software-intensive defense systems.

Major areas of technical emphasis are in:
  • Intelligent systems (artificial intelligence), including autonomous systems, interactive problem solving, and intelligent integration of information from heterogeneous sources;
  • Software development technology including languages, algorithms, data and object bases, domain specific software architectures, software prototype technology, software design tools, software reuse, and advanced software engineering environments; and
  • Manufacturing automation and design engineering, including the development of advanced software systems that support sharing of engineering knowledge, advanced product and process design representations, integrated product and process design, software tools for design process management, manufacturing process planning, manufacturing process control and demonstrations.
Budget ($ M)
FY 95 Act 59.21
FY 96 Pres 77.34
FY 96 Est 61.93
FY 97 Rqst 72.14
Program Component Areas
  FY 96 FY 97
HECC    
LSN    
HCS    
HuCS 61.93 72.14
ETHR    
Agency Ties
DARPA  
NSF  
DOE  
NASA  
NIH  
NSA  
NIST  
NOAA  
EPA  
ED  
AHCPR  
VA  
Milestone Changes  
FY 1995 Actual Milestones FY 1996 Estimated Milestones FY 1997 Agency Requested Milestones
Evaluated the integration of advanced intelligent systems and technologies in multiple autonomous vehicles.

Upgraded the Image Understanding Environment and develop prototype implementations of advanced methods for vision guided navigation and cartographic modeling.

Developed initial prototype implementations for human-aided machine translation, document understanding, and robust speech understanding in adverse acoustic conditions.

Developed initial prototype implementations of advanced real-time planning and control algorithms.

Enhanced knowledge based decision aids to support the rapid construction of multiple-crisis action plans.

Developed concepts and implementations of scalable machine intelligent algorithms for autonomous associate systems.

Developed initial prototype implementations of advanced methods for information fusion, aggregation, summarization, and explanation.

Evaluated language-based methods for describing domain specific software architectures.

Developed information infrastructure services for manufacturing, e.g., access to engineering analysis and rapid prototyping. 		Enhance test case scenarios and Internet accessible software testbeds.

Enhance and evaluate advanced methods for vision guided navigation and cartographic modeling.

Evaluate implementations of real-time planning and control.

Evaluate knowledge-based decision aids.

Evaluate methods for information fusion, aggregation, summarization, and explanation.

Evaluate scalable machine intelligent methods for machine learning, automated reasoning and real time problem solving.

Enhance and evaluate advanced software environment that supports composition tool integration.

Enhance agent based architectures to include machine learning techniques and advanced information processing.

Demonstrate feasibility of authoring tools in creating domain-specific multimedia curricula.

Expand network design and manufacturing services to include factory simulation and reusable product and process design libraries.

Continue the activities in human computer interaction heterogeneous testbed product development and insertion.

Test, evaluate, and demonstrate to the user community enhancements of the testbed. 		Continue development of human-computer interaction, heterogeneous testbed products and insertion. Test, evaluate and demonstrate enhancements to the developer and user communities.

Develop modular Human Language Technologies to support easy, low-cost, rapid technology transfer and application development for Document Understanding, Machine Translation, and Speech Understanding.

Develop in the Intelligent Integration of Information area, tools and techniques to enable the rapid construction of information fusion, aggregation, and summarization software.

Demonstrate a software environment rapid construction facilities for robust software and intelligent systems technology prototypes.

Image understanding applications effort that will transition results in automatic target recognition,terrain modeling for simulation, video surveillance, image database retrieval, and integrated reconnaissance and operations planning to other DoD agencies; continue multidisciplinary vision research with Office of Naval Research.