NEXT Labs℠
Meet our innovation engine.
NEXT Labs is our collaborative prototyping and experimentation makerspace where our teams continuously explore the novel application of leading commercial, niche, and open-source technologies to advance mission capability.
Incubate. Test. Mature.
NEXT Labs enables growth through curiosity, innovation and experimentation. It’s where our teams incubate, test, and mature our approaches, tools, ideas, technology, frameworks, code infrastructures, XaaS, XaC, and playbooks. It’s also where we develop novel AI/ML tools and methods through IR&D and CRADAs with our commercial and government partners.
Recent NEXT LABS Projects
FMV Object Detection & Edge Computing
A real-time object detection model running from an imagery collection platform. Cars, trucks, traffic lights, and trees are among the objects this model locates.
- Machine Learning at the Edge
- Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK)
- Edge Computing: NVIDIA Jetson
- Low-bandwidth Environment
WAMI Object Tracking
When a vehicle enters a tunnel or parking garage, it becomes visually obstructed and hard to continuously track in overhead and aerial imagery. Our IRAD solution links two fragmented vehicle tracks together into a full trip for a more complete picture.
- Computer vision
- Customized FaceNet to link vehicle tracks in WAMI into full trips (WAMI Linker)
- Statistical analysis
BEFORE
A vehicle’s movement is hard to track due to occlusion (shadows, trees, bridges).
AFTER
Our unique linking methodology automatically detects movement, joins the tracks, and identifies the object of interest.
Our partner ecosystem
In NEXT Labs, we cultivate a robust and neutral partner ecosystem so we can provide innovative and comprehensive solutions to our customers, regardless of their operational environment.
We constantly work to expand our partner network so that our employees and customers have access to the latest, greatest, and most secure technologies. By building partnerships with industry leaders, our teams and solutions move with the speed of change.
NEXT Labs fuels people power.
Our NEXT Labs projects are designed to help our employees develop their skills and talents so they can achieve their professional goals while providing cutting-edge solutions to our customers.
Team Certifications
- AWS Solution Architect
- AWS Certified Big Data Specialty
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Developer Associate Professional
- CompTIA Security+
- GCP Architect
- GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
- GCP Cloud Architect
- GCP ML Engineer
- Python Programmer
- SAFe Agilist
- SAP Certified Application Associate
- Scrum Master