Software for Next-Generation Human-Machine Teaming
Easily orchestrate any process
- at any scale and at any time -
between humans, machines, and software systems.
Easily orchestrate any process
- at any scale and at any time -
between humans, machines, and software systems.
With an ever-growing number of machines at our disposal, we are still drowning in data and have difficulty managing the capabilities of these machines and the data produced in a coordinated manner to create actionable intelligence and harness the full power of autonomous systems. Warfighters, first responders, and civilians who support military and public safety activities in the forward operating environments and in the cyber domain are awash in data and capabilities from the multitude of robots, sensors, machines, software, and their fellow humans.
There is so much data and so little intelligent convergence of this data into contextualized information despite the immense promise of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Frontline personnel and their teams need simple, configurable tools to make sure that the right data reaches the right humans and machines at the right time to take the right autonomous and semi-autonomous actions (and to even deliver better information to enterprise-level AI/ML platforms).
Initiative Labs LLC is spin-off of ACME General Corp., a leading defense innovation technology and advisory services company that has served multiple United States Department of Defense (USDoD) agencies and private companies since its founding in mid-2018.
The ACME team saw a need for an easy-to-use and intuitive rules engine to enable the configuration and management of simple and complex event-based triggers and actions by Warfighters in an array of physical and cyber operational environments to allow two-way communications between humans and machines, automate processes, empower improved human-machine teaming, and make sure the power of data is harnessed for the mission.
Though Initiative, the team developed a platform and tools to meet these needs – at the edge, at the core, and in the cloud.
Our leadership team at Initiative Labs has deep experience in founding and scaling new ventures that solve public sector problems through technology innovation and platform development with an emphasis on Internet of Things software and human-machine teaming applications.
They have successfully founded and led venture-backed, fast growth startups focused on government and industrial applications to acquisition by publicly-traded market leaders in defense, public safety and security, industrial security, and smart cities applications.
In addition, the team has developed tools to helps engineers quickly design, implement, and refine their software offerings, with a focus on large-scale distributed systems design and real-time event orchestration.
The Initiative software rules – set up by user-defined and system-recommended patterns and thresholds – are established as services, powered by AI/ML, that constantly process real-time events – generated by robotic systems, sensors, other machines, and other software. Those services initiate conversations with Warfighters and other personnel when actions need to be considered or taken with urgency.
No-code to low-code configuration empowers Warfighters and the civilian personnel who support them to configure new rules between and among machines, software, and humans as these new rules are needed, providing a “one-touch” user experience that enables system interactions with a single tap within Initiative.
The Rules Engine is the core of the solution, deployed as a distributed state machine powered by AI/ML, and can be easily configured to orchestrate event routing, matching, and delivery between and among all humans, machines, and software in an operating environment.
It can reside in the cloud, on premise, or on the edge.
Adapters allow for operational compatibility of any system or endpoint by employing an event translation layer, enabling integration of robotic systems, sensor systems, other data-producing or control-enabling hardware or software systems and devices, and enterprise systems (including COPs, collaboration applications, and other communications systems).
The Configuration Manager allows for military and first responder personnel to quickly set up the Rules Engine through an easy-to-use, intuitive interface to enable the configuration of event-based triggers and actions in an array of operational environments to automate processes, empower improved human-machine teaming, and make sure the power of data is harnessed.
The User Dashboard provides a view of both the events and automated actions that occur within an Initiative-governed solution. In addition, the User Dashboard provides access to easy-to-use chatbots to change or improve configurations, approve or reject semi-autonomous actions, and accept or deny AI/ML suggestions for Initiative.
Use cases abound... for instance, Initiative can be configured to allow for asynchronous interaction with and control of existing or newly available hardware and software systems through simple chat or even text messaging.
It can also be set up to deliver event-based information or media in real-time, based on geo-location or device proximity in ways that evolve with the operational environment, including previously unmanaged systems.
In other scenarios, the software can be configured to direct the fully automated or semi-automated processes of machines and human operators, based on real-time, event-based, multi-system, contextual information.
Standard list pricing for the Initiative Rules Engine Software follows.
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