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Advanced Systems Research Division

WHERE MISSIONS
BECOME SYSTEMS.

Built in the Field. Proven Under Pressure.

Atlas Intelligence Lab is the research and systems development arm of Atlas Operations. We translate decades of operational command, national security experience, combat medicine, and platform-scale trust and safety into AI systems that change how high-stakes decisions get made inside security operations centers, clinical practices, and veteran transition pathways. Not consulting. Not features. Decision intelligence for domains where the cost of being wrong is measured in consequences, not clicks.

Research Status
Phase I Feasibility · Multi-Track
NSF · NIH · DOD · VA · Active Pursuit
Academic Partners
Menlo College
Institute of AI & Sustainability
Research Domains
Decision Systems · Clinical Intelligence · Veteran Resilience
NSF Topic AI7 · NIH NIA · NIAMS · DOD CDMRP
Team Background
100+ Years Combined Service
NSA · 82nd Airborne · SF Combat Medicine · Trust & Safety
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THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE DATA.
IT IS THE DECISION.

"Operational failures do not announce themselves. They compound in silence across systems that were never designed to speak to each other."

Existing AI systems detect individual anomalies. They generate alerts. They report. What they cannot do is model the interaction between signals across time, reason about the consequences of acting or waiting, and determine whether AI or a human operator is better positioned to intervene.

This gap appears in security operations centers, in clinical decision-making, and in the transition pathways that veterans navigate as they return to civilian life. The underlying problem is the same in each domain: principled decision-making under compound risk, with incomplete information, and with consequences that propagate.

Our approach is grounded in control theory, temporal graph modeling, human-centered computing, and clinical decision science. We model operational environments as Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes.

The system learns when to act, when to escalate, and at what threshold that decision changes based on state, confidence, reversibility, and consequence. The same framework applies whether the decision is a security intervention, a biomarker-informed treatment protocol, or a veteran transition support action. This is not automation. This is decision intelligence.

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RESEARCH PORTFOLIO

Track 01 · Live
Decision Systems & Trust Calibration

AI systems for high-stakes operational environments: security operations, platform integrity, and national-security decision support. Compound anomaly detection across heterogeneous signals. POMDP-based human-AI handoff policies. The foundational research line of Atlas Intelligence Lab.

NSF SBIR / STTR · Topic AI7 · Topic AA3
Track 02 · Forming
Regenerative Medicine & Performance Optimization

AI-informed intervention protocols for combat-injury recovery, orthopedic regeneration, and biological performance optimization. Biomarker-driven decision support for clinical practice. Multi-site trial architecture spanning Las Vegas and Los Angeles clinical partners with deep military-medicine lineage.

NIH NIAMS · NIA · DOD CDMRP ORP · CDMRP PRMRP
Track 03 · Forming
Veteran Health & Transition Resilience

TBI recovery protocols, AI-assisted service-connected disability evaluation, and decision support for veterans navigating high-consequence health and financial transitions. Conducted in partnership with veteran-health clinicians and mission-aligned 501(c)(3) foundations serving the transition community.

DOD CDMRP TBIPHRP · VA-DOD LIMBIC · Dept. of Ed Veterans Upward Bound
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TRACK 01 · LINES OF INQUIRY

R-01
Compound Anomaly Detection

Temporal knowledge graph architecture encoding co-occurrence patterns across heterogeneous operational signals. Detects emergent compound failure states that single-signal systems cannot identify.

R-02
Trust-Calibrated Decision Handoff

POMDP-based intervention policy that dynamically computes the optimal handoff threshold between autonomous AI action and human escalation based on risk state, confidence, and reversibility cost.

R-03
Human-AI Collaboration Modeling

Formal modeling of operator cognitive load, availability, and decision quality as dynamic inputs to the handoff policy. Grounded in human factors research and responsible AI deployment principles.

Lines of inquiry for Tracks 02 and 03 open as clinical and academic partnerships transition from verbal agreement to executed MOU.
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SIX-MONTH FEASIBILITY ARC

01
Dataset Construction & State Representation

Construction of a labeled compound operational anomaly dataset. Definition of co-occurrence structures, anomaly types, and temporal proximity windows. Development of a structured knowledge graph schema encoding entity type, severity, domain, and causal plausibility.

02
Compound Risk Detection Validation

Implementation and comparative evaluation of single-signal baselines against the proposed temporal graph neural network model. Success criterion: compound model outperforms baselines by 15% or greater in early failure detection lead time.

03
POMDP Handoff Policy Training & Evaluation

Formalization of state space, action space, and reward function. Reinforcement learning policy training in simulation. Evaluation against AI-only and human-only control conditions across at least two operational failure categories.

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FORGED IN SERVICE.
BUILT FOR SCIENCE.

Founder & Research Director
The Architect
Ex-NSA  ·  Combat Veteran  ·  Ex-Twitter Trust & Safety
SF Veterans Affairs Commissioner
Doctor of Business Administration  ·  Professor  ·  Forbes Contributor
NSACombat VeteranTrust & SafetyCommissionerScholarProfessor
Principal Investigator
Cybersecurity & AI Lead
Cybersecurity & AI Specialist
21-Year U.S. Army Veteran
National Security Background
CybersecurityAI ArchitectureDefense SystemsSignal Analysis
The Atlas Cadre
100+ Years of Honorable Service
Combined backgrounds spanning the NSA, EOD, submarine warfare, Army intelligence, and combat deployments across multiple theaters.
All American. All vetted. All operational.
NSAEODSubmarine WarfareArmy IntelligenceCombat DeployedOIF / OEF / OND
Clinical & Medical Research Partners
Principal Clinical Investigator
Orthopedic & Regenerative Medicine
Retired U.S. Army Colonel  ·  33 Years of Military Service
Board-Certified Orthopedic Surgeon  ·  25+ Years Clinical
30+ Years Optimizing Performance for Special Forces, Naval Special Warfare, Airborne & Aviation
Medical Director, Las Vegas Longevity & Regenerative Medicine Clinic
West PointArmy Colonel (Ret.)Combat OrthopedicsFlight SurgeonRegenerative MedicineLongevity
Veteran Health Clinical Partner
DBQ & Service-Connected Care
Veteran-Health Physician & Advocate
Disability Benefits Questionnaire (DBQ) Specialist
Focus: Service-Connected Evaluation, TBI Recovery Pathways, Veteran Transition Care
DBQ SpecialistVeteran AdvocateTBI PathwaysTransition Care
Clinical Research Network
A Multi-Site Physician Consortium
Additional clinical partners with verbal agreement include a Clinical Trials Director leading investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored studies; a nationally recognized Regenerative Medicine Physician based in Los Angeles; and a Longevity Medicine Physician specializing in biomarker-driven preventive protocols. Together, this consortium provides a multi-site trial footprint across Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and anchors Atlas Intelligence Lab's Track 02 research agenda.
Clinical Trials DirectorRegenerative MedicineLongevity MedicineMulti-Site Trial NetworkLas Vegas · Los Angeles
Academic & Institutional Partners
Academic Research Partner · Track 01
Menlo College · Institute of AI & Sustainability
Atherton, California  ·  NSF STTR Research Institution Partner
Focus: Responsible AI · Human-Centered Computing · Applied Research
Responsible AIHuman-Centered ComputingApplied ResearchFederal Grant Infrastructure
Mission Partner
Veteran Financial-Resilience Foundation
501(c)(3) Non-Profit  ·  Financial Literacy with a Dedicated Veterans Track
Atlas Intelligence Lab research director serves on the board. Collaboration scope: joint grant applications for veteran financial-decision support, impact measurement design, and curriculum development for transitioning service members.
501(c)(3)Financial LiteracyVeterans TrackJoint Grant Pipeline
Research Network

Atlas Intelligence Lab operates a multi-domain research network spanning Menlo College, a multi-site clinical physician consortium, and a veteran-focused 501(c)(3) foundation. We pursue federal R&D funding across NSF, NIH, DOD CDMRP, and VA programs, grounded in principles of responsible, ethical, and human-centered AI deployment.

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ENGAGE ATLAS INTELLIGENCE LAB

Atlas Intelligence Lab welcomes engagement from research partners, clinical collaborators, commercial pilot customers, federal program officers, and mission-aligned investors & foundations. Every conversation starts with understanding your specific mission.

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