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February 7, 2009: PSI Honors Key Contributors at First Annual Awards Ceremony

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:00:59 -0500

On the evening of Saturday February 9, Parietal Systems held its first annual awards ceremony and dinner at the Boston Museum of Science. The festivities were intended both as a "thank you" to the PSI team for their efforts that have led to the company's rapid growth since 2002, and more specifically, to recognize several outstanding individual and team achievements that best exemplify PSI's core values. This year, two awards were presented:

2008 Outstanding Team Performance: The outstanding team performance award is given to PSI teams that have best demonstrate teamwork, technical excellence, and customer focus. The 2008 award was presented to the PSI Simulation team for their work in concurrently developing three new simulators, fielding these simulators at a number of sites across the world, providing on-site support throughout multi-week exercises for two concurrent exercises, and then installing the systems at multiple customer sites. The 2008 Simulation Team consisted of Mr Adam Bailey, Mr Garry Fountain, Mrs Susan Lynch and Mr Hal Maney.

2008 Innovation Award: The PSI Innovation Award is given in recognition of new ideas or methods that have significantly impacted PSI's business. In 2008, this award was given to Dr. Robert Washburn for his contributions in advancing the state of the art in applying spatial scan statistics to sensor data mining.

About Parietal Systems, Inc.

Parietal Systems, Inc. is a small business corporation headquartered in North Andover, MA. Founded in 2002 under our original name, TIA Research, PSI provides engineering research & software development services to both. PSI's focus is on the development and fielding of information technologies requiring the development of sophisticated mathematical solutions.

April 27, 2007: PSI Awarded Contract To Develop Graphical Techniques for Analyzing Movement Patterns in Traffic

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:32:01 -0400

Parietal Systems is pleased to announce the award of a Phase I SBIR contract that will allow us to develop a novel set of techniques for discovering relationships in noisy geo-spatial data.

The product of this research will be a family of tools that will help users to find spatial relationships in sensor data orders of magnitude faster than is possible with current manual processing. The technology produced by this effort will have immediate application to help detect IED fabrication facilities, weapon caches, strongholds, etc. and thus benefit military, homeland security, and law enforcement. Since the technology is not limited to MTI data, but is capable of using other types of time series data (e.g., RFID, video, motion detector, transaction data, etc.), it could also be used to discover linkages for other applications (e.g., marketing, financial analysis, etc.).

Parietal Systems , a privately held firm in North Andover, MA, provides engineering support services and technology development for the United States government. PSI's focus is on the development and fielding of information technologies requiring the development of sophisticated mathematical solutions.

April 27, 2007: PSI Awarded Contract to Develop Large Scale Models of Movement Patterns

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:44:55 -0400

Parietal Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce a new Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract with the Air Force Research Lab to develop new techniques for analyzing and simulating enormous collections of vehicle movements. This effort will build upon PSI's on-going efforts to develop techniques for organizing, accessing and mining enormous volumes of uncertain, time varying data. Under this program, the effort will be two-fold. First, PSI will explore the use of various techniques drawn from time-series analysis for constructing novel statistical representations of the movement data. Second, these models will be used as the basis for constructing a simulator that is able to build up correct and consistent movement models for large areas (e.g. towns or cities) over long periods of time (e.g. months or years).

September 10, 2006: PSI and Boston University Awarded Contract by AFOSR to Develop Video Tracker and Sensor Manager for Small UAV's

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:43:59 -0400

Parietal Systems, Inc. and Boston University have teamed to win a Phase I program under the Department of Defense's Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program. This program will combine technologies from PSI and BU into a best of breed solution for controlling and exploiting video streams from small UAV's. BU's Department of Electrical Engineering will be extending their techniques for detecting and tracking small objects from a video sensor mounted on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The resulting data will be used in concert with PSI's sensor management techniques to create a fully autonomous, closed loop system for detecting and tracking objects of interest on the ground.

August 25, 2006: PSI Awarded Contract To Support Air Force in Coalition Interoperability Program

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:53:47 -0400

Parietal Systems is pleased to announce the award of a new award that will allow us to support the Multi-Sensor Aerospace-ground Joint ISR Interoperability Coalition (MAJIIC) program. MAJIIC is a coalition Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration sponsored by Joint Forces Command and involving international military partners including Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, France and Germany. PSI will be providing engineering services to the program including systems engineering support, technical analyses, and the development and deployment of multiple sensor simulations for use during large scale exercises.

February 1, 2006: PSI Moves Into New Facilities

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:00:59 -0500

Effective February 1, 2006 Parietal Systems, Inc. has moved into our new North Andover headquarters. The new site, featuring approximately 6000 square feet of space is in the greater Boston area at the junction of I-93 and I-495 and is easily accessible. Since being founded in 2002, Parietal Systems has experienced a year over year growth rate of greater than 100%.

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October 14, 2005: PSI Awarded Contract To Continue Support to Air Force Research Lab

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:16:49 -0400

Parietal Systems is pleased to announce the award of a new contract that will allow us to continue our on-site support to the Air Force Research Lab / Information Fusion and Exploitation Branch in Rome, NY. PSI will be providing a relatively broad variety of engineering services to the Air Force including on-site support for analyses, systems engineering support, technical analyses, and the development and deployment of multiple sensor simulations for use during large scale exercises.

June 13, 2005: PSI Awarded Contract To Develop Novel Techniques for Building Spatio-Temporal Databases

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:27:57 -0400

Parietal Systems is pleased to announce the award of a new Phase II SBIR with the United States Air Force Research Lab. This new Phase II SBIR is focused on developing techniques for organizing and querying large-scale databases of spatio-temporal data, particularly data corresponding to moving vehicles. In particular, the emphasis is on developing techniques that will address several of the key issues in storing and manipulating this kind of data, including the development of a novel indexing scheme based upon techniques drawn from syntactic pattern recognition and the representation of various forms of uncertainty within the data.

April 7, 2005: PSI Awarded Contract To Develop Techniques for Incorporating "Common Sense" into Multi-Target Tracker

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:19:48 -0400

Parietal Systems is pleased to announce the award of a new contract with DARPA's Information Exploitation Office (IXO). This new Phase II SBIR is focused on developing techniques that will help to mimic the common sense employed by a human operator while tracking the movements of multiple ground-based vehicles. While other researchers have attempted to incorporate this type of information in a variety of ways, PSI is attempting a novel approach based upon the use of "Logic Based Optimization", a relatively new form of optimization that marries constrain based reasoning with more traditional forms of optimization, such as mathematical programming. Based upon results obtained during the Phase I research, PSI believes that the development of a more sophisticated form of association algorithm based upon these techniques can lend itself to a system that can use constraints to represent various forms of "common sense" while still providing the mathematical rigor inherent in most approaches to tracking.