Army awards deals for autonomous reasoning

Charles River Analytics has been awarded two Army contracts for autonomous reasoning.

The contracts are for Charles River's Figaro open-source, probabilistic programming language for probabilistic modeling.

Under the Energy Models of Critical Components effort, or E-MC2, Charles River will design "a resource monitoring, energy prediction, and decision-support tool that uses probabilistic reasoning to construct and learn models of complex, real-world systems," according to a company news release. "Using E-MC2's models, commanders will receive notifications on possible resource consumption issues."

In addition, Charles River will provide the Probabilistic Operations Warranted for Energy Reliability Evaluation and Diagnostics, or POWERED, modeling tool to assess the reliability of backup generators.

"We're using the flexibility of Figaro in these two efforts," said Charles River chief scientist and Figaro developer Avi Pfeffer. "Figaro lets us quickly assemble models of interacting components that use a combination of physics-based, heuristic, and data-driven reasoning. In E-MC2, we are using Figaro to build models of energy consumption and resource usage. In POWERED, Figaro will provide detailed models of power generator health and status."

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