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Cadets on Counter IED training at West Point using the new software programmes that have been developed
THREE CADETS spent part of their summer secluded in a locked research lab with its windows blackened inside Mahan Hall. Their contribution to a research project yielded results which, given its classified status, they cannot really talk much about. Suffice it to say, however, that as they briefed colleagues recently, with a nod and a smile, the cadets confirmed its success. The project involved a new piece of software that can identify the location of weapons caches in theatre – using a mathematical model based on the research theory of geospatial abduction. With impressive accuracy, the software can predict where an enemy’s improvised explosive device, or IED, depot is, based on previous attack locations and other intelligence. The original version of the software is called SCARE, or Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine, and was created by Major Paulo Shakarian, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The software developed this
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summer is a modified version called C-SCARE/A, which focuses on the theatre of Afghanistan. This was an interdisciplinary effort, which is quite obvious from the academic pursuits of the three cadets involved in the final phase of the counter- IED project. Class of 2013 Cadet Jeff Nielsen, cadet-in-charge, is a maths major; Class of 2013 Cadet Will Wright is a Department of Foreign Languages major; and Class of 2014 Cadet Andrew Oswald is majoring in electrical engineering. Earlier in the summer, Class of 2015 Cadet Ellis Valdez, Class of 2013 Cadet Tim Stein, an international relations major, and Class of 2014 Cadet Geoff Moores, a computer science major, contributed to the project. The project also involved faculty and staff from organisations to include EECS, Mathematical Science, Systems Engineering, the Operations Research Centre and the Network Science Centre.
The team worked with deployed combat engineers
globaldefencemedia.com | winter 2012_13
"A lot of great things have happened to show that this programme can actually contribute to the fight and save lives by finding these weapons..."
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