Posts by Kairos Research
Kairos Research Wins IARPA Contract to Analyze Hidden Risks in Complex Supply Chains
If you look far enough back in history, you will find the literal definition of a linchpin to be an item which kept the wheels from falling off wooden carts. During the recent COVID-19 crisis, we have all experienced firsthand the consequences of the wheels falling off global supply chains, resulting in shortages in items…
Read MoreKairos Research Wins DARPA Contract to Develop Non-Escalatory Engagements for Autonomous ISR Platforms
Often the U.S. military is called upon to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) operations in complex urban environments that pose special challenges when it comes to identifying threatening actors, who can easily blend with the surrounding populace. Any attempt to compensate for this problem by increasing the intensity of ISR activities risks backfiring, further…
Read MoreKairos Launches New Supply Chain Data Analytics Project for the Air Force
Kairos Research was recently awarded a Phase 1 contract from the Air Force to explore the feasibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) to help procurement officials within the Department of Defense identify new suppliers for critical emerging defense technologies. Mr. Srikanth Nadella, a Senior Software Engineer at Kairos, is leading the effort in collaboration with…
Read MoreKairos Research Wins Subcontract to Support DARPA’s Habitus Program
Kairos Research was recently awarded a subcontract by Raytheon BBN Technologies as part of a multi-disciplinary research effort supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Habitus program. According to DARPA’s website, Habitus “seeks to capture and make local knowledge available to military operators, providing them with an insider’s view to support sound decision-making.” Residents…
Read MoreNew Paper from Kairos Research Examines Emotions about Moral and Ethical Decision-Making
Moral and ethical decision making often involves choices where a decision maker is forced to choose among multiple imperfect options. For instance, doctors performing triage after a disaster must decide which victims receive care- and thus, which will not. Recently published research from Kairos Research Senior Cognitive Scientist Dr. Amy Summerville and intern Brielle Johnson…
Read MoreKairos Wins Phase 2 Air Force Contract to Develop Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Kairos Research was recently awarded a Phase 2 contract by the Air Force to develop novel methods for increasing the “explainability” of state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms. Together with their collaborators at Kansas State University’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, the Kairos-led team will test a new approach for rendering the decision outputs of…
Read MoreKairos Awarded Navy Contract to Develop Web-Based Tool for Detecting Social Media Bots
Kairos Research has been awarded a contract by the Office of Naval Research to develop a web-based tool and app for detecting Twitter “bot” accounts. Bots are synthetic accounts designed to mimic human behavior and influence opinion on social media, often by spreading “fake news” and other forms of misinformation. To combat this problem, Kairos…
Read MoreKairos Research Awarded DARPA Contract to Develop New Methods for Detecting Cognitive Dissonance
Kairos Research has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new methods for detecting group-level cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon wherein a person or community holds two or more beliefs that are in conflict. Cognitive dissonance may be especially pronounced during periods of rapid societal…
Read MoreKairos Research Awarded Contract to Apply Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Human Performance Data
Kairos Research has been awarded a contract with Wright State University to apply cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) methods to fundamentally change the way human performance data are analyzed. Kairos will partner with investigators at Wright State University and Kansas State University to leverage “contextual AI” techniques to reason about sources of error (a.k.a. residuals) in…
Read MoreKairos Research Awarded Contract to Improve “What If?” Reasoning in Intelligence Analysis
C.S. Lewis argued “we can never know what might have been, but what is to come is another matter entirely.” Nevertheless, counterfactual thoughts about “what might have been” are an essential part of everyday reasoning. Intelligence analysts especially rely on counterfactual reasoning to improve future practices following any failures (i.e., to answer the question: “What…
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