About RCS
Resilient Cognitive Solutions, LLC specializes exclusively in Cognitive Systems Engineering. Our sole purpose is to deliver revolutionary decision centered support to the most challenging mission critical and business critical problems.
RCS has successfully designed and developed a unique fourth generation methodology. By employing this methodology, resilient (adaptive, error-tolerant) systems can be both designed and implemented while preventing data overload; and actually designing situational awareness into the design. Operators are teamed with their computerized environment while virtually eliminating characteristics of classic systems engineering efforts. (As characterized by one expert: "First I must defeat my own system so I can then engage the enemy.")
RCS offers a full range of Cognitive Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Program Management, and Object Oriented Programming services. Our Pittsburgh location houses an advanced software development environment for both standalone and web based client-server applications. This includes a full gigabit LAN, redundant storage, and full UPS power supplies.
RCS specializes in both intuitive graphical interfaces for high performance systems and the applications of technologies to large, distributed systems.
An RCS Decision Support System (DSS) is specifically designed to support the operators' business critical information requirements even in unpredictable situations. RCS has continually demonstrated significant improvements in operator-automation decision making effectiveness.
What sets RCS apart in the world of Decision Support is our utilization of a unique integration between advanced information fusion technologies and decision centered Human Automation Interaction (HAI) Technologies.
HAI technology enables the underlying fusion technologies to aid the operator's cognitive processes, ultimately achieving faster and more accurate decisions. HAI technology, coupled with data fusion and sensor management's technical capabilities, creates a joint human-machine cognitive team. This joint team design dramatically improves overall decision effectiveness.
RCS can choose from a palette of highly effective visualization techniques in designing our DSSs. Through a thorough analysis of supported decisions within the context of functional goals in the work domain, the design of underlying data transformation technologies is not only operator specific but operator effective.
By incorporating years of research from Cognitive Science, Visual Perception, and Decision Making fields in conjunction with information specifically gleaned from customer analyses, RCS can determine how best to visualize and display the information/decision tool. Operators will have enhanced observability of technology capabilities enabling them to understand at a significantly deeper level, how the technology is making fusion inferences based on data characteristics (i.e. ontology, pedigree/quality, metrics). Additionally, operators are given explicit directability of technology's capabilities. This enables operators to effectively supervise and guide the technology toward the best possible solution.
RCS continues to provide expert revolutionary mechanisms for visualizing information related to intelligence analysis, system control, robotic interactions, dynamic rolling horizon planning and global domain awareness at force, regional, and national levels.