Success in Space is About Innovation.
We hope to see you in Colorado Springs next week at the Space Symposium. Please reach out if you'll be there and have time to say hello. It's an exciting time at Bintel for the launch of our Space Innovation development platform. Lots of new datasets, a PreFlight Launch program to get started, and a line up of subject matter experts and innovative companies. If you're not familiar with Bintel, some recent blog posts will provide some of our work that's formed the foundation of our current offerings.
Our Space Innovation Ecosystem (SPIE) Platform is tailored to the needs of Chief Innovation Officers, Change Catalysts, Portfolio Managers, Product Managers and Engineering R&D. SPIE supports market assessment, product management, research and business development. In short, the objective is to reduce the friction and speed up the process of matching up experts and smaller companies with the needs identified by NASA and the primes. We want to cut in half the time it takes to move a solution from TRL2 to TRL6.
EXPERTS - A Tool for Discovering, Expanding and Augmenting a Subject Matter Expert Network
EXPERTS is a cloud based application that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) initiatives with a dynamic Subject Matter Expert (SME) database and to provide individual SMEs with the ability to radically widen their scope of reach and depth of penetration into advances in their field. This application provides technical, business, and program management the ability to quickly identify and connect with NASA, academic and industry experts for each technology in the NASA Technology Area Breakdown Structure (TABS) and taxonomies from other technical, business and programmatic areas. (more...)
Doing Our Part to Develop Space - NASA Research
This is where it all started for Bintel in 2015. The Advance Concepts Office (ACO) at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) was developing and refining methods and processes for performing Information Based Decisions for Strategic Technology Investments. This system was referred to as TAPP, Technology Alignment & Prioritization Process. This process supported the evaluation of the technologies for investment by NASA and MSFC to ensure alignment with NASA mission plans, technology area priorities and strategic knowledge gaps. (more...)
Eureka Interactive Model Based Decision Tool for Space Architectures
If we’re going to realize the promise of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), we need to solve knowledge problems for engineers and mission planners. They are working on a complex set of interrelated issues with expensive consequences. The stakes are huge, in time, budget, technical risk and safety. In 2018, Chris Crumbly of IDEA pulled together his team, Purdue University, and Bintel to attack this challenge. Below is a summary of the project which had a successful out-brief in late 2019. Current initiatives with NASA plan to extend this work in 2023. (more....)
Aligning Investments with Strategic Priorities
Incorporating Bintel’s AI technology at the time, the application provides NASA the capability to have data mining agents parse and score unstructured content against the 354 technologies identified in the 17 Technology Roadmaps. This ability to score proposals with cognitive agents enabled ACO to perform statistical analysis within the Information Based Decision framework for Strategic Investments. Using AI classifier libraries, “read” the 500 documents in 300 project sharepoint folders and classify them. The first set of classifiers was trained to understand each of MSFC’s “Beats” or Strategic Vectors for the Center for 2016. The goal was to enable Agency leadership to understand how well their investments across five funds complied with their strategic priorities, even though three of those years were prior to 2016. In addition to providing more comprehensive analytics on the investment, the integration of the investment database, the automated classification and the Tableau business intelligence application saved OSAC staff substantial hours over the manual process of Excel spreadsheets, charts and powerpoints. (more...)
The ChatGPT wave rolled through social media this Fall with an incredible amount of wonder and awe. AI and ML influencers embraced the dream that Large Language Models (LLMs) will replace Google and other research tools. However, sprinkled in those posts were also examples of questionable responses from the AI engine – inaccuracies that were presented in a way that sounded factual. Lack of citations and oblique training methods are being called out as risks to relying upon LLMs for critical decision making. These debates led me to think about how important trust is when it comes to data analysis and mission-critical business decisions. The AI landscape is rapidly accelerating – there are already variants of ChatGPT that provide references - yet it will take time for organizations to embrace this type of AI for high-value high-consequence decision making. In my experience there needs to be three pillars of trust in any data consulting methodology: traceability, versioning, and explainability. (more...)
Convenient, Comparative, Contextual and Interactive research solutions like ours provide a foundation for researchers that provides both enhanced navigation and citation, but also analytics that illuminates hidden value.
Competitive. We build tools that help you compete, in your job and in your markets. We build the tools to find the competitive differentiator for you. If you have the same service as the rest of the industry, no matter how good it is, once the early adopters exploit the advantage, everyone is equal again. This is where our A.I. augments your intelligence, scales it to find the innovative ideas. (more...)
Success in Space is About Innovation
We have two areas of focus for Bintel, sustainability and space. Helping our clients win in both domains is all about innovation. The researchers and engineers we work with are literally working to save our planet by exploring the next one. Facilitating the transfer of technology between these two fields, especially in material science, is our mission.