Contracts and Research/Workshop Grants for Alianna J. Maren, Ph.D.

• Predictive Analysis Market Survey and Knowledge Discovery Roadmap – Subcontracts to DIA
• SBIR/STTR Contracts
• Research and Workshop Grants

Predictive Analysis and Knowledge Discovery Roadmap for the DIA

• Predictive Analysis Market Survey
  • Work performed via subcontract through Booz-Allen-Hamilton for the DIA Requirements and Research Group (R2), 2004,
  • Overall contract value > $1M; EagleForce initiated contract and received $x00K in subcontract award,
  • Assessed existing state-of-the-art technologies for predictive analysis, recommended options to DIA.
• Knowledge Discovery Roadmap
  • Work performed via subcontract through Booz-Allen-Hamilton for the DIA Requirements and Research Group (R2), 2003-2004,
  • Overall contract value > $1M; EagleForce initiated contract and received $x00K in subcontract award,
  • Developed technology roadmap for DIA and other IC agencies to create a comprehensive knowledge discovery suite; recommendations built on concepts introduced by Dr. Maren to the NCES (Net-Centric Enterprise Systems) community during that timeframe.

SBIR/STTR Contracts

Dr. Maren was Principal Investigator on seven Phase I and four Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) and/or STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) contracts, with contract values averaging $0.07M and $0.75M (plus bridge contracts of $0.1M) each (respectively for the Phase I and Phase II awards), for a total of more than $3.4M of contract dollars awarded from NSF, ONR, the U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps, and NASA. All awards were made during 1992 – 1999 to Accurate Automation Corporation in Chattanooga, TN.

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Illustrative SBIR/STTR Contracts for Alianna J. Maren

• Precision Logistics for the U.S. Marine Corps
  • Contract: Precision Logistics Support System
  • Innovation: Utility functions predictively support precision logistics planning to maximize benefit (right supplies, right amount, right location, right time) and minimize cost/wastage for operations conducted by a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU).
• Signal Processing Chips/Electronics
  • Contract: Signal Processing Chips/Electronics (ONR, Phase I & Phase II awards via the STTR program) (1997). Phase II Award: STTR N00014-95-C-0323
  • Principal Investigator: A.J. Maren, Academic Institution Principal Investigator: Barry Stein, M.D., Wake Forrest University
  • Final Report for Biological Sensor Fusion, “Signal Processing Chips/Electronics,” submitted to ONR (Office of Naval Research).
  • Contract: Signal Processing Chips/Electronics for a Biologically-Based Sensor Fusion Device (ONR, Phase I & Phase II awards via the STTR program)
• Figure-of-Merit Determination for Carrier Air Traffic Control
  • Contract: Neural Network Figure-of-Merit Subsystem (NCCOSC, Phase I & Phase II awards via the SBIR program)

Awards and Recognition – Alianna J. Maren’s SBIR/STTR Contracts

• Inventor of the Year – Chattanooga Chapter of the IEEE
• Inc. 500 Small Business Award #256 (1993)
• New York Times selection of Dr. Maren’s Patent as Patent of the Week
• SBIR Tibbetts Award to AAC (twice during Dr. Maren’s tenure at AAC; AAC is the only company to have received two Tibbetts awards.)

Research and Workshop Grants

• Jeffries Trust Foundation, Radford University (1991), $12K
  • Supported development of the CORTECON, a neural network incorporating free energy equilibrium computations using the Cluster Variation Method (CVM) as well as both short and long-range neural connections.
• NSF Workshop: Enhanced Human-Computer Interfaces: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (1991), $40K
  • Workshop sponsored by four NSF Directorates: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), and Education and Human Resources (EHR)
  • Workshop investigated potential for adapting human-computer interfaces to suite individual differences in learning styles and cognitive processing.
  • Maren, A.J., & Lesgold, A. (1991). Workshop Report: Enhanced Human-Computer Interfaces: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, Report to the National Science Foundation (Washington, DC, 1991).