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Title |
Description |
Risk to Mission Assessment Process (RiskMAP)
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Risk to Mission Assessment Process (RiskMAP) provides solid decision support by mapping between network risk and mission risk. RiskMAP can be used to model and identify an organization's most critical tasks, assets and network nodes. |
UAT Beacon Surveillance
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MITRE has developed a small, lightweight, low-power Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) transmitter based on the Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) technology MITRE developed in the mid 1990s. We refer to this radio technology as the UAT Beacon Radio or UBR Technology. We see the UBR Technology having potential applicability to improving visual acquisition of small unmanned aircraft systems, general aviation aircraft without engine-generated electrical systems, hang-gliders and balloons operating in visual meteorological conditions in low altitude airspace. MITRE is offering an intellectual property license for the UBR Technology to interested U.S. based companies on a non-exclusive basis. |
Honeyclient
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Our honeyclient technology proactively detects
attacks on client software without the use of signatures
to detect attacks. Honeyclients are systems that drive
a piece of potentially vulnerable client software
to potentially malicious sites, then monitor system
behavior for indications of compromise. The honeyclient
technology can benefit any organization's threat report
and advanced warning capabilities, and protect against
compromises. A distributed honeyclient system increases
effectiveness by allowing individual clients to report
back to a central repository and obtain additional
workloads. |
Turbo-Fraud |
Our Turbo-Fraud software dramatically
improves the efficiency and accuracy of forensic auditing.
It can reduce fraud through consistent monitoring
of corporate financial data and alerting of potentially
fraudulent tactics. Turbo-Fraud uses an algorithm
to identify anomalies in financial data that indicate
possible manipulation tactics, determines which potential
fraud tactic may have caused the anomalies, and calculates
a score to measure the likelihood that manipulation
has occurred. Turbo-Fraud's accuracy far exceeds that
of human auditors when analyzing similar cases. Detailed
auditing is still required to investigate suspicions
raised by the system, but Turbo-Fraud serves as a
highly effective sentinel. |
Video Super-Resolution for Biometric Face ID
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Our biometric face ID system increases capabilities
in the identification of faces from video sources.
Current biometric face identification methods fail
when used with low resolution images, for example,
when faces are imaged either at a distance, or with
a low-resolution imaging device, such as a cellphone
or security camera. The complexity of images of moving
human figures and faces presents additional problems
for biometrics applications. This 'complex' motion
cannot be adequately corrected with the current methods
that use whole-image 2D affine transforms. The super-resolution
approach overcomes this problem by aligning images
locally, pixel by pixel. As a result, crisp edges,
corners, and other features are much more clearly
defined in the super-resolved version, despite complex
motion in the video sequence. |
Automated Worm Detection and Response System |
Our Automated Worm Detection and Response
System (AWDRS) is an innovative worm detection technology
that can make networks more secure and less susceptible
to attacks. Its sensitive and accurate detection capability
detects worms in real-time, quarantines them to limit
damage, and responds in near real-time instead of
hours later. If an attack occurs, effective countermeasures
can be deployed rapidly by AWDRS to minimize spread. |
The ELICIT System
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Our ELICIT System (Exploit Latent Information to
Counter Insider Threats) was a prototype designed
to help analysts investigate malicious insiders—insiders
who operate within their privileges, but outside the
scope of their duties. Detecting malicious insiders
is challenging problem and very different from detecting
intruders. ELICIT examines data events, returns alerts,
computes a threat score, and presents this information
to the user/analyst. Detecting insiders requires detecting
human behavior, only some of which occurs on hosts
and networks. ELICIT provides contextual information
and tracks how individuals access and manipulate information—critical
for detecting insider threats. |
Adapting Venture Capital Concepts to Enterprise System
Acquisitions |
The goal of this research is to contribute
a strategic, forward-looking view of enterprise systems
acquisition. Specifically, the research is exploring
venture capital (VC) approaches and determines whether
and how they can be used to improve the acquisition
of enterprise systems in the federal arena, and to
develop and pilot elements or an enterprise systems
acquisition model. |
Encrypted Dynamic Privacy for RFID
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MITRE enhances security and privacy for users of
RFID tags in portal access applications. We will provide
a standard RFID tag that changes ID numbers regularly
without losing the association between the tag and
its authorized user. Among candidates for use of this
technology are border management programs such as
US-VISIT, Free and Secure Trade, NEXUS, and Transportation
Worker Identification Credential. |
Nanotubes for Small Antennas
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Small wireless sensors sense the environment, with
demand anticipated to increase dramatically. While
sensor circuitry keeps shrinking, a corresponding
reduction in antenna size leads to shorter communication
range due to low antenna efficiency/gain. More power
is needed or conversely, the antennas can be tuned
with a lossy matching network. Low loss antenna matching
networks are needed for small wireless sensors. |
Optically Sensed Tags
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MITRE is developing optically sensed tags based
on induced chemical interactions and emissions for
detecting low concentrations of chemicals and materials
over a range of standoff distances. Often these materials
are difficult to detect, because they are present
in very low concentrations and exist in complicated
environments. The tagging mechanisms developed will
leverage existing related technologies used for chemical-specific
sensing. |
Quantum Information Science
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The research is investigating the feasibility of
achieving significant reductions in the size and weight
of practical sensor hardware without compromising
resolution. This possibility, discovered by the MITRE
Quantum Information Science Group, relies on the exploitation
of quantum mechanical effects in photons. The prospect
of substantially reducing the size and weight of practical
sensors would be of significant value to a broad spectrum
of MITRE's customers. |
Quick International Character Recognition (QUICR)
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Limited technology currently exists for recognizing
offline handwritten Arabic. The number of documents
to be translated far exceeds the manpower available
to process them quickly. MITRE is assembling technology
solutions for digitizing, translating, and triaging
the data so that we can deliver high-priority documents
to analysts more rapidly. |
Source Separation and Equalization for Interference-Limited
Communications |
MITRE is developing a receiver that can jointly
separate, equalize, and decode arbitrary wideband
signals within an asynchronous multiantenna multiple
access channel. The receiver must separate common
format signals for wireless network optimization and
different format signals for eavesdropping applications.
The target system will recover bit streams for all
acquired signals of any type in the particular catalog. |
Voice
Sig |
MITRE has developed a biometric approach
for electronic document signing, which is the functional
equivalent of a traditional handwritten signature. |
Converging
Runway Display Aid (CRDA) |
This MITRE-developed project, the Converging Runway
Display Tool (CRDA), is an automation aid for air
traffic controllers. It allows users to precisely
establish and maintain a stagger distance between
two aircraft approaching on different runways. |
Information
Warfare Visualization (IWViz) |
The Information Warfare Visualization (IWViz) software
prototype provides an interactive three-dimensional
(3D) capability that enhances user perception of defensive
information warfare (DIW) data for decision making
and situation awareness purposes. |
Multi-User
Detection Technique (MUD) |
The need to move more data in less time via wireless
links has resulted in an increasingly crowded radio-frequency
spectrum. This MITRE-developed prototype processes
multiple, simultaneous signals. |
Translingual
Instant Messaging (TrIM) |
Translingual Instant Messaging (TrIM) was developed
as a research tool for experimenting with machine
translation. The MITRE prototype is a communications
tool that provides automatic language translation
services for instant messaging users. |
User
Request Evaluation Tool (URET) |
The User Request Evaluation Tool (URET) was developed
by MITRE's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development
(CAASD) to assist air traffic controllers with timely
detection and resolution of predicted problems. |
| Airspace
Alerting and Avoiding (A3) |
This technology alerts pilots to areas of temporary
flight restrictions and assists them in revising a
flight path to avoid restricted air space. |
Aviation
Safety Data Mining Workbench |
This data mining tool identifies safety
related trends and patterns to provide air safety
officers with information needed to formulate appropriate
corrective actions. |
Hazard
Warning Algorithm (HWA) |
HWA is an apparatus and method for
measuring concentrations of a chemical in an environment.
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Software
Quality Assessment Exercise (SQAE) |
This is a methodology and process for
repeatable assessment of software life cycle quality
risks, such as maintainability, evolvability, and
portability. The no-cost license includes some training
materials and a software toolkit. |
Terminal
Area Route Generation, Evaluation and Traffic Simulation
(TARGETS) |
TARGETS is a terminal area navigation
(RNAV) procedure implementation tool that offers a
unique combination of capabilities for RNAV procedure
design, flyability assessment, and ATC service provision,
and operator evaluation and familiarization of these
procedures through simulation. |
Virtual
Room 3D Visualization Software (VRoom) |
This is one of the first desktop room-based
multimodal interface systems to use three-dimensional
graphics.
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