R&D & Innovation

Applied research designed to become useful technology.

We pursue high-value technical problems through federal innovation programs, internal R&D, and venture development—with commercialization and real-world validation considered from the beginning.

Selected pipeline

Programs at different stages of research and development.

These projects are intentionally labeled by technology and development stage. Inclusion on this page does not imply agency award, deployment, or commercialization unless explicitly stated.

Trusta SENTINEL™

Trust-Aware Decision Assurance for Real-Time Water Reuse. A research program focused on sensor trust, competing hypotheses, decision sufficiency, anomaly and failure interpretation, and safer real-time operational decisions in water reuse systems.

Focus: water reuse · intelligent monitoring · decision assurance
NIH SBIR Phase I · In development

RESPOND-AI

An AI-enabled health technology concept being developed for NIH SBIR, with emphasis on rigorous evidence, responsible model use, validation, and a practical pathway from research to prototype.

Focus: health technology · AI · translational R&D
NIDILRR SBIR pathway · Research-stage

Accessibility & Assistive Technology

Concept development includes privacy-preserving multimodal ambient cognitive support intended to assist users while minimizing unnecessary data exposure and preserving autonomy.

Focus: accessibility · multimodal AI · privacy-aware support
Venture development

CapacityIQ / Thermal Capacity Intelligence

Technology concepts for quantifying recoverable cooling capacity with uncertainty, verification, and decision support for district cooling and large thermal infrastructure.

Focus: district cooling · capacity · verification · Qatar market pathway
R&D platform development

Data-Center Infrastructure Optimization

AI-enabled concepts spanning energy, cooling, water, thermal state, infrastructure capacity, sparse telemetry, and operational decisions in high-density compute environments.

Focus: data centers · energy · water · cooling · infrastructure
Continuous internal R&D

Decision Intelligence Methods

Reusable methods for evidence trust, uncertainty, competing hypotheses, system state estimation, engineering reasoning, and decision sufficiency across multiple application domains.

Focus: cross-domain platform primitives
R&D model

Research with a deployment horizon.

Problem framingMission relevance and unmet need.
Technical hypothesisWhy a new method could materially improve outcomes.
PrototypeSoftware, bench system, model, or workflow.
ValidationEvidence, uncertainty, failure modes, user relevance.
TransitionPilot, licensing, product, partnership, or contract.