SAIC Magazine

The SAIC Magazine is produced several times a year and showcases significant new technologies, major programs, contract wins, and employee achievements.

Summer/Fall 2007
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In This Issue:
Intelligence analysts are faced with a growing challenge — how to move quickly through vast amounts of imagery from a myriad of sources to find the intelligence payoff. SAIC is helping pioneer a way to rapidly prioritize large volumes of imagery by measuring and discriminating brain signals that are triggered when analysts see something interesting in the images. The work has the potential to change the way people interact with computers. Read about SAIC's pioneering work on neural imagery analysis in Neural Nexus with Computers Speeds Imagery Analysis - in the latest edition of SAIC Magazine.

Also in this issue:

• An SAIC Employee's Research in Africa
  What SAIC's Gray Tappan has found in the sub-Saharan nation of Niger is turning conventional environmental expectation on its head: An increase in tree density and biological diversity in agricultural areas, the areas with most people.
• Renewable Energy Research
  SAIC is helping Virginia become a maritime renewable energy research leader. The company is a key business ally and a prime mover behind the Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium (VCERC), an effort aimed at renewable marine energy technologies and production.
• A Space Rendezvous
  Experts from SAIC's bd Systems subsidiary have developed a simulation package, known as SPARTAN, to test next generation sensor technologies and algorithms involved in automating rendezvous and docking missions - the autonomous joining of two vehicles in space.
• Searching for Stealthy Asteroids
  To increase the discovery rate of "near-Earth asteroids," researchers need to survey a deeper volume of space. As described in his award-winning paper, SAIC's Peter Gural (and colleagues) developed software that used matched filter image processing to better detect asteroids.
• Better Weather Forecasts
  SAIC's OMEGA is a high-resolution atmospheric modeling system. As reported in their award-winning paper, four SAIC authors applied the MPDATA algorithm to the unstructured triangular grids that OMEGA generates and improved the efficiency of OMEGA's real-time atmospheric flow simulations.
• A Three Dimensional Mobile Mapping System
  SAIC's Urban Reality™ system looks like an average luggage carrier case sitting on top of a car roof. But packed inside is a state-of-the art mobile mapping system that can rapidly capture and process the three-dimensional (3D) detail of a city for interactive visualization and analysis.

Fall/Winter 2006
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In This Issue:
SAIC CEO Ken Dahlberg has said that it is important for SAIC to be "thought leaders in the markets that we serve." One example of this is SAIC's efforts to help the federal government find solutions to identify and destroy improvised explosive devices (IEDs). SAIC responded to Dahlberg's challenge to provide such help by establishing the SAIC IED Defeat Systems Management Office.

This office stands as a single point of contact for the U.S. organization leading DoD efforts to defeat IEDs as weapons of strategic influence. Read about SAIC's challenges regarding IEDs in SAIC steps up to help defeat IEDs in the latest edition of SAIC Magazine.

Also in this issue:

• SAIC's Predator Operations Support
• SAIC's Key Support of the U.S. Stryker Brigades
• SAIC Develops Innovative Way to Help Protect Troops
• Information in a Heartbeat
• Ancient Elephant Genes Tell New Story
• Nuclear Fuel Leasing
• Researchers Develop Better Way to Detect Nuclear Blasts
• Estimating Software-Intensive Systems

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