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Kairos Chosen to Lead OFRN Project on Cognitive State Modeling

Kairos Research, together with our partners Wright State University, Sinclair Community College, and the Dayton Entrepreneurs’ Center, recently kicked off a new project aimed at ...

New Paper from Kairos Team Explores DIY Automated Tools for Geopolitical Forecasting

A team of researchers from Kairos Research (Dr. Amy Summerville, Dr. Cara Widmer, Dr. Brandon Minnery, and consultants Dr. Ion Juvina and Dr. SubashiniGanapathy) has published an article ...

Kairos to Study Human-AI Decision-Making for DARPA’s In the Moment (ITM) Program

Kairos Research has kicked off a new DARPA project as a member of a team led by Raytheon BBN Technologies. DARPA’s “In the Moment” program ...

Kairos Wins SBIR Award to Analyze Evolving Social Media Narratives

While the problem of misinformation on social media has recently attracted much attention, such misinformation – whether spread unknowingly or deliberately (i.e., disinformation) – represents ...

Kairos to Develop New Tools for Measuring the Cognitive-Behavioral Impacts of GEOINT Software

Kairos Research recently embarked on an ambitious R&D effort as part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) GEOGCOG program. According to NGA’s website, “the objective ...

Kairos to Study Human-Machine Teaming in Intelligence Analysis

Kairos Research has joined forces with North Carolina State University’s Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) to study the impact of AI-based automation on human cognition ...

Kairos Tapped by AFRL to Lead Human Performance Data Modeling Effort

Kairos Research recently kicked off a new project in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL’s) Airman Readiness Medical Research (ARMR) portfolio. The new ...

Kairos Gets Green Light from Air Force to Begin Phase 2 of the ASCEND Supply Chain Analytics Project

Kairos Research has been awarded a contract with the Air Force to begin Phase 2 of the Automated analysis of Supplier Capability for Ensuring National ...

Kairos Kicks Off Army SBIR Project Aimed at Identifying Emerging Technology Leaders

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has a long tradition of scientific and technical innovation. Maintaining this edge requires the identification and cultivation of Emerging ...

New Paper by Kairos Scientist Examines Cross-Cultural Differences in Counterfactual (“What If?”) Thinking

Kairos Senior Research Scientist Dr. Amy Summerville has a new publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology about the intersection of cultural beliefs ...

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 ...

Kairos 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 ...

Kairos 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 ...

Kairos 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 ...

New 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 ...

Kairos 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 ...

Kairos 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. ...

Kairos 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 ...

Kairos 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 ...

Kairos 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 ...

Kairos Research Combines Human and AI Forecasting Methods to Predict Global Events

When asked to predict the future, a wise individual from a galaxy far, far away once said, “Difficult to see; always in motion is the ...