The completed software prototypes below include only those which were developed exclusively by Doug Dyer, and do not represent the work of other companies which were funded by DARPA or the Air Force.

CAST-lite (National Defense University and JFCOM) March to May 04

• An implementation of the Fund for Peace's predictive model for nation-state stability
• One example of over 50 d3i applications developed to date
• Reads and auto-interprets hundreds of thousands of news articles in the context of this model, showing stability trends over time and enabling a kind of control system to provide early warning, exercise non-military options, and prevent violent conflicts
• Primary analytical component of the Pre-Conflict Management Tool; used by JFCOM

The d3i Active Templates Tool (DARPA) January 02 to Present

• A tool that enables ordinary users to create, in minutes, custom distributed applications for accessing data, getting intelligent help from smart algorithms, and making decisions
• This technology has now been adopted by SOCOM and three different ACTDs
• To be published in a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems "Agent-Based Intelligent Forms," January/February 2005

CrossCheck and DARPA's Constellation Experiments (DARPA) June to September 03

• Using synthetic data and simulated terrorist attacks, DARPA's Constellation Experiments were to determine if data-mining algorithms could predict attacks before they occur
• In the Centaurus experiment, CrossCheck amplified terrorist signatures by 34 to 51 dB, found all terrorist cells, and found only 6 to 123 false positives in a population of 2M

SOFTools Temporal Plan Editor and Execution Checklist (SOCOM) December 98 to May 00

• A graphical plan sketching tool for creating highly synchronized combined-arms plans common to special operations. Able to integrate plans over the net, includes an execution checklist used for monitoring execution and implementing options as needed
• Produce a plan 4 times faster and execute with one-sixth the staff with zero comms errors
• Transitioned to SOCOM (2000) and used operationally by ground, air, and maritime; used in Afghanistan and Iraq for numerous light infantry and special operations

MAGIC/VISTA (Air Force Space Command) September 94 to January 96

• A low-cost graphical telemetry analysis system for monitoring and fixing satellites
• VISTA was used to rescue a flailing DSCS satellite, restoring comms in 8 vs 24 hours
• Transitioned to Air Force Space Command and used at Falcon AFB to track health and status of communications satellites vital to military commanders and national defense

HINGE/HUNK, a hierarchical planner that learns (AFIT) January 92 to May 94

• A generative, non-linear planning system that integrates a case-base and an explanation-based learning algorithm to chunk important sub-plans for performance enhancement
• Showed that, for planners that learn, selective reuse can prevent problems that otherwise cause performance degradation unless learning is constrained. I was awarded a PhD for this finding, built on previous work by Manuela Veloso and Steve Minton (CMU)

MAXIM simulated robotic aircraft (DARPA) September 94 to January 96

• For DARPA's Distributed Interactive Simulation program, these smart software agents provided intelligent and realistic air combat adversaries using flight models for air superiority fighters, air-to-air missiles, and cannon fire. Integrated with other agents.
• MAXIM agents beat humans and other smart agents more than 90% of the time without cheating or violating known flight envelopes. Provided to DARPA and CFG researchers