| Nonstationary Extensions to Spectral Separation Coefficients | The spectral separation coefficient is widely used in the Satnav performance analysis in the presence of interference such as jamming. Analytical results generally assume stationary or cyclostationary signals so that … | Aerospace, Multidisciplinary | Grad,Undergrad | 1 | No | aero multidisciplinary |
| Remote Sensing of Contrails | Transportation contributes significantly to anthropogenically-propelled climate change, especially when considering secondary events such as the generation of contrails from airplanes. Contrails affect incoming shortwave radiation and outgoing longwave radiation, perpetuating … | Aerospace, Data Science, Multidisciplinary, Systems Engineering | Grad,Undergrad | 2 to 4 | No | aero datascience multidisciplinary se |
| Assessing Validity of Digitally Published Information | The objective of the is capstone is to devise innovative and improved concepts for assessing the validity of digitally published information. This will require initially assessing strengths and weakness of … | Artificial Intelligence, Data Science | Grad,Undergrad | 2 to 4 | No | artificial-intelligence datascience |
| Ultra-dense Graph Representations | Many critical problems in national security, cybersecurity, and beyond can be best represented by graphs. While there is growing number graph databases that can scale linearly they are largely focused … | Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering | Grad | 2 to 4 | No | cyber se |
| Nefarious Mobile Phone Proximity Alerts | The Vormund Company, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, sells an app that purports to track burner phones used in proximity to customers’ family members or business travelers. Burner phones (BP) … | Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Machine Learning, Multidisciplinary | Grad,Undergrad | 2 to 4 | No | artificial-intelligence cyber datascience and-machine-learning multidisciplinary |
| Measuring Channel Capacity Using Machine Learning for Evaluation of Radio Receivers | Measuring channel capacity across non-AWGN channels is quite challenging as there is often not a closed form solution for fading channels. Several different methods have been proposed to estimate mutual … | Machine Learning | Grad,Undergrad | 2 to 4 | No | and-machine-learning |
| Resilient Decentralized (RESDEC) Data and Workflow | Implement: Pool of seven decentralized nodes with workflow through the nodes by passing data feeds. Nodes have a peer-to-peer interface to advertise, request, and use, data feeds. Workflows connect five … | Cybersecurity, Data Science, Systems Engineering | Grad,Undergrad | 2 to 4 | No | cyber datascience se |
| Successful Project Management | Project Management across technology projects derives greater challenges due to the complexity of projects at MITRE and other similar organizations. Use current project management methodology to streamline and curate options … | Systems Engineering | Undergrad | 5 or More | No | se |
| Considering a potential relationship between the opioid crisis and domestic violent extremism (DVE) | Research finds that “Factors that underpin despair can make people more susceptible to extremist ideologies and create entire geographies that are prone to radicalization.” Simultaneously, DVEs have developed propaganda related … | Data Science, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Multidisciplinary | Grad | 2 to 4 | No | datascience healthcare multidisciplinary |
| Analytic Development through Capability Abstraction of ATT&CK Techniques | Research one or more ATT&CK Techniques using the “Capability Abstraction” approach used by SpectreOps to identify low-variance behaviors or “chokepoints” associated with those Techniques, and develop analytics and associated data … | Cybersecurity | Undergrad,Grad | 2 to 4 | No | cyber |
| An Experiential Demonstration of the Benefits of Robotics Process Automation | When leaders or users face an opportunity to implement new technologies to improve their organizations, they often cannot imagine the impact of the change. This capstone seeks to create an … | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Machine Learning, Multidisciplinary, Systems Engineering | Grad,Undergrad | 2 to 4 | No | artificial-intelligence healthcare and-machine-learning multidisciplinary se |
| Intelligent Automation Research Survey | There is much discussion and hype surrounding intelligent automation currently. It would be incredibly informative to understand the types and amount of academic research that has been conducted on intelligent … | Artificial Intelligence | Grad | 1 | No | artificial-intelligence |
| Enterprise-level Intelligent Automation (IA) | Implementing isolated pockets of intelligent automation seems feasible for government organizations. However, little work appears to exist detailing the processes and methods required to scale Intelligent Automation at the enterprise … | Artificial Intelligence | Grad | 1 | No | artificial-intelligence |
| Empirical Study of Authentication Methods; Is it time to do away with Passwords? | The purpose of this project would be to conduct a study of nuanced authentication mechanisms that have arisen as alternatives to traditional authentication methods such as password and physical tokens … | Cybersecurity, Data Science, Economics and Cost Analysis, Multidisciplinary, Systems Engineering | Grad,Undergrad | 2 to 4 | No | cyber datascience econ multidisciplinary se |
| Applying ML/AI To Data Management Lifecycle Functions | Potential goals to consider: Streamline data tagging to increase turnaround time for discovery, orchestrate metadata between search technology tools, data management tools, and other prevalent technologies, and determine typical uses … | Data Science | Grad | 5 or More | No | datascience |
