The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Charles River Analytics a potential two-year, $1 million follow-on contract to update the sensor fusion systems on MDA’s ballistic missile defense platforms. Brian Ruttenberg, a senior scientist at Charles River Analytics, said in a statement released Monday the company will work to assess at the architectural level the “impact of uncertainty” on sensor […] More

Avi Pfeffer, formerly a principal scientist at Charles River Analytics, has been named chief scientist of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based defense and intelligent systems developer. He brings 20 years of probabilistic modeling and programming technology research and development experience to his new role, Charles River Analytics said Thursday. Karen Harper, president of Charles River Analytics, said Pfeffer will lead […] More

Charles River Analytics has received a two-year, $500,000 follow-on contract to  develop a cyber defense toolkit for the U.S. Air Force to assess software services for the military branch’s cybersecurity programs. The company said Monday it will base the Managing Evaluation and Testing for Red Team Investigations of Cyber Security tool on the firm’s AgentWorks graphical application that works to help users […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Charles River Analytics a follow-on contract to help the Office of Naval Research develop a tool for the military branch to generate probability forecasts of weather. Charles River Analytics said Tuesday it aims to produce big data-based machine learning software for an extended-range weather prediction tool through the Climatological Observations for Maritime Prediction and Analysis Support Service initiative. The company will […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded Charles River Analytics with a potential one-year, $1 million contract to develop a decision support tool for the Contamination and Lasting Effects Analysis for Negative Substance and Elements effort. Charles River Analytics said Wednesday that the decision support tool will work to support the enhancement of the military testing and training facilities’ […] More

Charles River Analytics has partnered with Systems and Technology Research and Raytheon in an effort to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency  produce decision support tools for military command-and-control operators to manage complex missions. STR and Charles River will collaborate to design and build a distributed planning and assessment suite under DARPA’s Resilient Synchronized Planning and Assessment for the Contested Environment program as part […] More

Charles River Analytics has produced a game-based module for the National Science Foundation as part of an initiative to help U.S. high school students develop their science, technology, engineering, math and entrepreneurship skills. Charles River Analytics said Thursday the Trains of Thought proof-of-concept integrates educational research, the Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe business simulation video game and a gameplay. The approach is […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded an estimated four-year, $8 million contract to Charles River Analytics to develop a software system that can understand, learn and adapt to changes in its technological environment. CRA plans to develop the Probabilistic Representation of Intent Commitments to Ensure Software Survival system as part of DARPA’s Building Resource Adaptive Software Systems […] More

Charles River Analytics has introduced a framework designed to manage and analyze crowd-sourced software verification tools. The framework is presented as part of the Crowd-Sourced Formal Verification program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Charles River said Friday. “Software should go through formal verification to ensure that mission-essential software is free from disruptive errors […] More

Charles River Analytics has been awarded a $400,000 contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop a multi-source naval analytics and analytic services framework for warfighting environments as part of the Navy‘s branch-wide tactical cloud computing project. The Navy is developing its Tactical Cloud Reference Implementation to create on-demand access for shared sensors and computing resources, Charles River said Wednesday. […] More

Charles River Analytics Inc. has been awarded a nearly $1 million contract to develop virtual training tools for the U.S. Navy in an effort to help the service meet its training requirements. The Shiphandling Educator Assistant for Managing Assessments in Training Environments tool works to assist instructors in monitoring and engaging with more students, Charles […] More

Charles River Analytics has introduced a new tactical decision aid intended to help operators generate airspace routes for unmanned aerial systems. The company developed the Spatially Produced Airspace Routes from Tactically Evolved Networks tool to help coordinate mission plans for various types of UAS, Charles River Analytics said Thursday. SPARTEN incorporates multi-objective optimization algorithm for […] More