Military & Aerospace Electronics: Intelligence experts look to IntelliScience for digital imagery tools to help guard against weapons of mass destruction

CNBC: Defense Threat Reduction Agency Awards Sole Source ID/IQ Contract to IntelliScience Corporation for Intelligent Image Analysis System

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IntelliScience Corporation, a developer of intelligent multi-modal image analysis systems and software, today announced that it has received a five year contract award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract has a potential value of approximately $16.6M and will provide DTRA with IntelliScience systems and services that aid operators in detecting known and unknown threats in any type of digital imagery.

"The US military has invested significantly in image sensor devices and the capture of digital imagery to produce vast amounts of image files," said Matthew Holm, DTRA Director of Innovation. "With IntelliScience technology we will provide operators and analysts with enhanced visualization and intelligent analysis to react more quickly and confidently."

"DTRA has established a reputation as a significant source of innovation to the Department of Defense and our national security efforts," said IntelliScience CEO Joe Daltoso. "We are honored to have the opportunity to work with DTRA and develop intelligent imaging solutions to assist its mission and other military and government initiatives that can benefit from our image analysis technology."

About Defense Threat Reduction Agency

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) was founded in 1998 to integrate and focus the capabilities of the Department of Defense that address the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threat. The mission of the DTRA is to safeguard America and its allies from WMD (e.g. chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives) by providing capabilities to reduce, eliminate, and counter the threat, and mitigate its effects. Under DTRA, Department of Defense resources, expertise and capabilities are combined to ensure the United States remains ready and able to address the present and future WMD threats. www.dtra.mil

About IntelliScience Corporation

IntelliScience, a Boise, ID – based small business, is the developer of patented pattern recognition software that can be used with any imaging system or sensor to add change recognition, anomaly detection, image transformation and automated target recognition functionality to the device. The technology has been proven to work with any digital image or data type in the government, military, medical and commercial markets. For more information, visit www.intelliscience.com.

IntelliScience Corporation today announced its role as a sponsor in the Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices Conference beginning today in Alexandria, VA. The two-day industry conference will address the growing concerns and challenges that our defense and homeland security personnel face and the requirements to protect them from the escalating use of IEDs by terrorist forces. The conference is being hosted by The American Institute of Engineers and managed by Technology Training Corporation (TTC).

"Improvised explosive devices pose a massive and significant threat to our military, defense, and homeland security forces. We are reminded of this every day as television news tickers stream the latest casualty count from IED attacks into our living rooms," said Joe Daltoso, Chief Executive Officer of IntelliScience. "We believe that our technology in the hands of trained military experts will diminish and minimize the effectiveness of this terrorist tactic."

IntelliScience software has demonstrated in government tests its ability to aid in the early detection of improvised explosive devices. IntelliScience patent pending technology alerts operators to known targets and anomalies that can cause destruction but may be missed by human evaluators. Using IntelliScience software, operators can "train" the characteristics of identified targets into a classification library that can then be shared with all similar image devices.

IntelliScience plays a strategic role in assisting operators and analysts search, find and automate the identification of threats as military investment in image capture and sensor systems increases exponentially. In the January 2010 issue of National Defense Magazine, Lt. General David A. Deptula, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, sums up the situation this way: "We're going to find ourselves in the not too distant future swimming in sensors and drowning in data."

IntelliScience Corporation is the sole developer and marketer of IntelliScience software. The company is headquartered in Boise, ID with a development office in Atlanta, GA. IntelliScience software has broad applicability to the medical, government, military, financial, environmental and energy markets and is available to these markets directly or via OEM relationships. The company is classified as a small business and has received security clearance by the US government. For more information, visit the IntelliScience website at www.intelliscience.com.

IntelliScience Corporation today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company patent number 7,492,938 in recognition of its unique pattern recognition algorithm engine. The company, founded in 2006, is the developer of a unique intelligent algorithm engine that can aid in the detection of known and unknown patterns in multiple data types. To date, the company has successfully proven the abilities of the software in the military, government, medical, and other markets.

"This patent award is validation of the effort that has been put into creating this technology and the uniqueness it possesses in the marketplace," said Bryan Donaldson, lead developer at IntelliScience and co-recipient of the patent. "We have approached the challenge of pattern recognition from a new direction and given domain experts the ability to rapidly identify, classify and react to information previously not recognized by human operators or via other technology approaches."

Awarded on February 17, 2009, the patent – entitled Methods and Systems for Creating Data Samples for Data Analysis – protects the intellectual property foundation of the engine which provides the ability for a domain expert to quickly identify, classify and respond to information that may not be fully visible or apparent to the user.

"We are pleased that the US government has recognized the value and uniqueness of this technology and granted us the ability to protect it in a very competitive space," said Joe Daltoso, IntellIScience Chief Executive Officer. "There have historically been many technological approaches that have proven less than effective in assisting governments, doctors and professionals to efficaciously manage the massive amounts of data presented to them. In re-thinking the approach, we believe that we have created an engine that can quickly and accurately present users with information that enables them to perform their functions with more confidence and achieve better results."

IntelliScience Corporation is the sole developer and marketer of IntelliScience software. The company headquarters is in Boise, ID with its lead development office in Atlanta, Georgia. The software has broad applicability to the medical, government, military, financial, environmental and energy markets and is available to these markets directly or via OEM relationships. The company is classified as a small business and has received security clearance by the US government. For more information, visit the IntelliScience website at www.intelliscience.com.

Like most kids, when I was growing up I always fantasized about joining forces with fellow superheroes. Comic books, TV shows, cartoons, inside cereal boxes…where ever my heroes were hanging out, so was I. I spent my days running around the neighborhood with a blue baby blanket tied around my neck (alongside my best buddy in his red handkerchief) using my powers to save the world from bad guys and other invisible dangers.

Of course, I grew up and put all that “nonsense” behind me.

Not really.

Today I work for a company that literally has its own set of super human powers. IntelliScience Corporation has proprietary and patent pending software technology that quickly and accurately sifts through mounds of data to bring forward distinct and unique patterns within it. Further, if a user finds patterns of interest they can then use our software technology to easily find that pattern elsewhere in the data stream.

How does apply in the real world? Say you are a researcher looking at breast cancer. Our technology can enhance your expertise by bringing forward minute differentiations in individual cells – literally separating the abnormal cells from the normal cells. This differentiation will key to earlier detection. With this information in hand, the same software technology can search the records of thousands of patients and pin point these individual cells. No longer will women have to wait until these individual cells mass themselves together so they can be otherwise visually identified as a problem. The medical community will have the tools to get after the problem long before that.

How about the scientific community that is trying to find early clues to the timing and locations of earthquakes? IntelliScience technology can bring forward common patterns not only in historical seismic data, but synthesize seismic patterns with other potentially related streams of data as diverse as lunar position, time of day, or ambient temperature at the epicenter. Unlocking the early clues to earthquakes, tsunamis and often devastating aftershocks could alert at-risk communities to the potential calamity at hand, saving lives and property in the process.

While this software was originally designed to work in a standard single-processor environment, there is no question that the faster the “horsepower” behind it, the quicker our users will have their results. In a complex world where time is life, it makes all the sense in the world to see what our amazing technology can bring forward in “turbo mode”. For a young company, being able to compliment our technology with a powerful processor set would be an incredible opportunity. AMD has asked, “What would you do with 48 cores?” We would supercharge our superpowers.

In summary and if it’s alright by you, I would like to exchange by my blue baby blanket for a state of the art 48 core jet pack.

If you agree, I’ll meet you at the Union of Justice!

Joe Daltoso, CEO, IntellIScience / AKA The Algorithm Avenger

As any devotee of the Star Trek series can tell you, there is a test that cadets take at Starfleet Academy called the "Kobayashi Maru" scenario. Simply put, the simulated test involves the choice that needs to be made when a distress call is made by a sister Federation ship that has inadvertently crossed into enemy territory. The prospective starship commander has two choices: a) ignore the distress signal and leave the sister Federation ship and crew to an almost certain death or b) attempt a rescue which will put your command starship at severe risk.

In other words, it is a "no-win" scenario where either choice leads to ultimately a less than optimal solution.

With the opening of the movie "Star Trek" last month, I was struck by the similarities of the Kobayashi Maru/"no win" scenario and the scenario that is occurring at several of our nation's airports that are testing the full body scans using active millimeter wave (AMMW) technology. On the surface, the flying public is being forced to make a choice by either: a) deriving the benefit of the improved under garment images to potentially provide greater security to all passengers or b) giving up yet another measure of privacy by having very detailed images of private areas available to security staff and potentially for public consumption.

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So the reality is we have a real-life "no win" scenario forced upon the traveling public by TSA and its passenger scanning partners. Take the AMMW scan, put at risk your privacy. Opt out of the scan and off you go to another line; one that will be less efficient, more expensive to maintain and ultimately less secure for you and your fellow travelers.

The irony is that these scenarios don't take into account all the gyrations and additional expenses that TSA and its partners have cobbled together to reduce the privacy concerns during these AMMW tests. Examples such as having the person manning the scanning equipment placed away from the security line in an entire different location connected by some random cable and a walkie-talkie. I don't know about you, but that does not seem to be an optimal solution to me.

Of course as Star Trek fans can tell you, series hero James T. Kirk, eventually came up with a solution to the Kobayashi Maru simulation that would allow him to rescue the injured ship and significantly reduce the risk to his own ship. It Kirk's view, there was always a better solution, a philosophy that served him well over the course of time.

Providing better solutions is something we agree with at IntelliScience. In testing with the same AMMW output as used in these airport tests, we are strongly convinced that we have a solution to the TSA "no-win" scenario. Our proprietary technology can bring forward and highlight the risky materials as shown in the images but blur/obscure non-essential information that can effect privacy issues. At IntelliScience we have the technology to provide an end solution that will allow for both better security and a respect for individual privacy.

Come on TSA, don't settle for some half-baked, no win solution. Let's put together a solution that will provide the best of all worlds and give our customers, those that fly and the American tax payer, what they deserve and pay for.

If you have any interest in seeing first hand how we do this, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Live long and prosper...

Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are the weapon du jour of the terrorist militia that has no regard for human life - planting deadly traps in the hope of eliminating the enemy with no conscience for innocent men, women and children that get caught in their game. It is a cowardly approach to war, yet effective in that it is borne out of the most effective tool in war – surprise. The IED can surprise on two fronts – where it is and what it is – and on both fronts the ability to move or change the IED keeps our military constantly chasing the challenge. Their effectiveness is reinforced to Americans every day in newspapers and news channel streams that validate the success of these weapons in the context of casualty count.

Short of complete and perfect intelligence, there is no way to accurately predict the newest explosive device that is going to be used and no way to accurately predict where it is going to be placed. While we may have the technology and ability to monitor the regions in theatre, our borders, or other areas of interest, we unfortunately lack the resources to examine the resulting data for clues and information that could prevent more IED casualties before they occur. At IntelliScience, our belief is that the key to disarming IEDs is to stop trying to find specific "explosive device" types but instead focus on automating the detection of the latest "improvised" part of the device – eliminating the element of surprise.

Using data from existing sensors and cameras – satellite, SAR, passive millimeter wave, active millimeter wave, infrared, hyperspectral, etc. – automated anomaly alerts form the first wave of defense, showing operators that there is something to be aware of – something new and not a match when compared to what is expected to be present. Using domain expertise and ground truth for identification, the key is to rapidly digitally classify the threat and distribute it to other sensors to enable automated target detection across all systems. With this rapid response process cycle in place, we can shorten the gap between threat introduction and threat elimination. Perhaps even to the point that the terrorists lose interest – and the news tickers no longer echo the blasts into our lives.

As IntelliScience sponsors an industry conference this week in Arlington, VA that addresses the growing challenge of IEDs to our defense and homeland security efforts, this is the message we will bring to the table. Our technology enables the approach outlined above and our passion to assist in this effort knows no bounds.

Joe Daltoso, CEO, IntellIScience