Advanced Information Technologies for Solving National Security and Intelligence Problems

With our rich history and expertise in advanced R&D and software engineering, we are a recognized leader in the development of algorithms and software systems that provide integrated, high-performance capabilities for the entire information processing chain—from signal registration, processing and exploitation to strategy formulation, planning, and execution.

Our primary customer base includes the agencies and offices of the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Homeland Security. Our technologies are also being applied to selected commercial applications.

A 1979 spin-off from MIT, BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies (AIT) maintains its headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts and has additional offices in Arlington, Virginia, San Diego and Mountain View, California and Hanover, New Hampshire. Our high-quality technical team includes more than 200 researchers, systems engineers, and software engineers, over 80 percent of whom hold advanced engineering and science degrees. Together, they represent a broad range of experience from basic research to applied research to operational software systems development and integration.

Our Mission
AIT contributes to the economic well-being and national security of the United States by providing information technology services, software and systems of outstanding quality. We conceive sophisticated mathematical and knowledge-based algorithms, develop them into robust software products, and integrate them into operational environments to meet the complex challenges faced by our customers. We succeed by employing and training a high-caliber workforce and providing a stimulating and rewarding work environment. We seek growth and success in our markets, and we are committed to dealing ethically and responsively with our employees, customers, partners, suppliers and competitors.

Strategic Relationships
AIT has a long-term relationship with Scheidt & Bachman USA, Inc., to allow them to tightly integrate our Image-Based Inventory System (IBIS) with their Parking Revenue Control Systems at major airport parking garages. IBIS, which is based on advanced license plate recognition (LPR) technology, provides automated reading of license plates of vehicles entering and leaving airport parking facilities.

AIT also has a long-term relationship with Sentar, Inc. to support our work on National Missile Defense in the Huntsville, Alabama area. Sentar provides software development and research services.

Autonomic Distributed Systems (ADS)
The Autonomic Distributed Systems develops innovative algorithms and solutions for advanced computing concepts, automated planning systems, and surveillance sensor system applications. Technologies include stochastic control applications in autonomic computer network defense, neurodynamic programming, optimal sensor allocation, dynamic scheduling, and agent-based computing.

Intelligence Innovation Division (IID)
The Intelligence Innovation Division (IID) is the newest AIT Division, focused on research and development of advanced technologies and associated analytic processes to understand intelligence hard targets. These hard targets include overt and covert organizations that are characterized by large numbers of interacting actors that give rise to unpredictable and emergent behaviors. We represent targets and situations as complex adaptive systems, and employ new methods to analyze and understand their behavior to mitigate the potential for surprise. IID employs synthetic (simulation) tools to allow analysts to perform exploratory analysis of the behaviors of foreign organizations, groups and populations &em; and their operations.

Defense Programs Office
AIT's Defense Programs Office (DPO) spearheads major multi-divisional engineering development and precursor advanced development programs for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Missile Defense Agency. This includes business development, systems engineering and project management. DPO is transforming AIT's technology components into mission capability packages.

Intelligence Programs Office
The Intelligence Programs Office leads AIT's business activities in the Intelligence and Security markets. We apply technology to create operational solutions for customers working in counterterrorism, intelligence analysis, infrastructure protection and cyber defense in the Intelligence Community and Department of Homeland Security. Our activities include marketing and capture planning, system development, and program management for large, complex, and often classified systems.

Battle Management and C3 Systems Division*
We develop systems that allow military operators to solve complex problems in resource allocation, mission planning, effects-based operations, and autonomous vehicle control. Our multi-vehicle mission control product tightly synchronizes the activities of large teams of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles to perform complex tasks in high-risk environments. Our weapon-target pairing products address a broad range of resource allocation problems—from time-sensitive targeting to optimizing missile defense intercepts subject to system-of-systems level performance constraints. AIT’s technology base includes dynamic programming, stochastic optimization, optimal control, and mathematical programming. Our technology development skills are complemented by strong systems and software engineering skills that have been used to support numerous military exercises and the development of operational systems.

*C3 is Command, Control, and Communications

Fusion Technology and Systems Division
The Fusion Technology and Systems Division focuses on development of advanced technology and systems for processing kinematic, feature, and classification data from radar, video, multi/hyperspectral cameras, and other sensors and sources. We use this data to track and identify air, sea, ground, and space targets, and in turn use that track information to enable situational awareness and to automatically generate sensor resource requests. We also support a broad range of sensor, exploitation, and control systems engineering programs. Our technologies include multiple-hypothesis estimation and tracking, modern control, sensor fusion, cognitive fusion, and visualization.

Intelligent Systems Division
Intelligent Systems Division core competencies are in knowledge-intensive artificial intelligence, probabilistic inference, and relational data mining. We are pursuing advanced research in knowledge-based systems for planning and scheduling applications, and probabilistic systems for information fusion and non-conventional target detection and tracking. We are also on the cutting edge in the use of advanced object-oriented tools and methods, including application of model-driven architectures, and in the development of technologies for large-scale integration of disparate systems and databases. To complement our deep research focus, we have an established development capability for hardening advanced prototypes and shepherding them into fielded applications.

Signal Understanding and Networking Division
The Signal Understanding and Networking Division develops cutting-edge algorithms and software for signal processing, computer vision and communication applications. Our technologies include robust feature extraction, multi-modality image registration, coherent and non-coherent change detection, innovative 2-D and 3-D object recognition, intelligent video monitoring, adaptive data routing algorithms, and secure communications. AIT specializes in applying these technologies to real-world decision-making problems, developing solutions that provide high performance in practical implementations.

San Diego, CA Office
The San Diego Office focuses on developing and transitioning advanced technology in information fusion and signal processing for distributed sensor networks to determine, detect, localize, classify, and identify targets of interest, with an emphasis on missile defense and naval systems. In addition, our research and development in bioinformatics spans statistical analysis, pattern recognition, and data mining applied to the integration of genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data for early detection of low level biological and chemical toxicity.