Riverside Research’s Operation Blind Date IRAD Technology Protects Warfighters, Equipment, and Infrastructure with Real-Time Learning for Network Defense Systems
The foundation of internal research and development (IRAD) projects involves outcomes that benefit and directly support the missions of Riverside Research’s government customers. Among the most valuable IRAD technologies are those that are applicable to a wide range of government technologies – those in and out of the scope of defense.
Operation Blind Date is a new way to deploy real-time learning for network defense systems. While continuously active, Operation Blind Date immediately detects and absorbs threats, then deploys executable actions to prevent damage from further infiltrations. This real-time alignment can safeguard existing systems while adapting to cutting edge hardware as it arrives and as the customer implements critical security upgrades.
The customer can deploy Operation Blind Date on systems such as modular engines, aircraft, interior controls, and various types of vehicles, keeping warfighters and other government personnel safe as situations change.
Currently in a deep testing environment and being heavily researched, Operation Blind Date is ready to enter a full testing environment on a live project. At this time, AI/ML Engineer Michael Jerge and the Riverside Research Machine Learning team see many options for its use now and into the future.
“One of the valuable qualities of Operation Blind Date is that it can be developed for deployment in multiple domains and on multiple system and vehicle types,” explains Jerge. “This technology is primed for broad use.”
Operation Blind Date represents a critical reinvestment for Riverside Research: that is, to re-invest profits into research and technology that serves the purpose of strengthening our national security efforts, making available the latest technological advances to the government customer. “This type of reinvestment in evolving technologies is at the core of our mission as a national security nonprofit,” remarks Tim Waltz, Vice President, Sensors and Systems at Riverside Research. “We want to offer emergent, customizable solutions that are extensible to multiple domains and missions.”
In the future, this IRAD technology could conceivably end up in space and sea domains (including protocol-based systems) in addition to the air and space domains it’s currently been tested in. Operation Blind Date could feasibly protect critical infrastructure at home and abroad, serving as a critical sentinel in the defense tech stack.