Projects

eCortex works with government and commercial entities to develop and refine new theories and practices in computational cognitive neuroscience. 
Year
Contracting Entity
Description
2017
Naval Sea Systems Command
  • ​$1,500,000, 3 year Navy Phase II SBIR (Note: see below for Phase I, 2007). "Automated Archerfish EO / Sonar Detection Techniques for Naval Mines​." Objective: build/test a complete, scalable, open architecture software system prototype of the Electro-Optical Sonar Identification System (EOSIS) with an excellent detection and classification capability for submerged mines.
2015
University of Southern California
  • $640,000, 4-year subcontract in support of USC's NSF grant "Integrated Cognitive Modelling for Risky Decision-Making". more>
2012
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
  • $2,000,000, 5-year contract. "Neural Mechanisms of Human Adaptive Executive Control" involves the creation integrated neural network models of human executive function.  more>
2011
HRL Laboratories
  • $1,500,000, 3.5 year subcontract to support HRL's ICArUS (Integrated Cognitive-Neuroscience Architectures for Understanding Sensemaking) IARPA program. more>​
2010
IARPA
  • $347,000 Research Contract to use eCortex's Leabra/Emergent-based brain models to explore the effect of embodying a learning model in a three-dimensional virtual environment.  more>
2009
HRL
  • Subcontract on DARPA "Non-conscious Processes for Situation Awareness and Clutter Rejection" project. eCortex provided Leabra model architectural and answerline support.
 
AlphaTRAC, Inc
  • Subcontract on the PolARES project for Department of Energy and other agencies. eCortex provided its Leabra model of contextual decision-making for emergency management and interface between PolARES GUI and Emergent in Java.​
2008
Adaptive Cognitive Systems
  • Subcontractor on ACS's "Adversarial Behavioral Modeling" project; developed extensions of the DTank simulation environment in Java.
  • Subcontract on ACS's AFOSR CASEMIL STTR. Developed spatial processing algorithms in C++ and a Java based communication hub for cognitive models interacting with simulation environments.
2007
ONR
  • Navy Phase I SBIR, "Automated EO/IR Detection Techniques for Floating Objects." Developed Leabra models and visual processing algorithms to filter false positives in floating mine detection
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