Charles River Analytics gets $6M DARPA deal

By Maria Uminski

Charles River Analytics Inc. has won a contract, worth close to $6 million, to help support Insight, a federal intelligence and surveillance information gathering program.

Insight is a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) initiative to help analysts manage sensor feeds coming from a variety of platforms. The goal for this project, with the help of Charles River Analytics, is to develop and put into the field the next generation intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) exploitation and resource management system.

According to Ryan Kilgore, principal scientist at Charles River Analytics, the company was “selected to lead the Insight technical area that focuses on designing and evaluating a unified human-machine interface for analysts.” Charles River Analytics calls its effort Interfaces for Enhanced Analyst/Automation Collaborative Tasking (INTERAACT).

Charles River Analytics is a technology company founded in 1983 and based in Cambridge that is creating intelligent solution systems including sensor and image processing, situation assessment and decision aiding, human systems integration and cyber analytics. In January of 2010, the company filed for a patent in the field of “social network analysis.”

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