AIMES™ Software

Leidos AIMES Server catalogs, indexes, and stores MISP compliant video slice files and NITF images from AIMES PICTE. AIMES Server uses Key Length Value (KLV) metadata in each slice to temporally synchronize the video with additional data available to the Server.

AIMES Server applies storage abstractions and distributed database technologies (S3, NoSQL) allowing customers to dynamically add and remove server nodes and storage when their system grows, experiences a failover condition, or connects/disconnects from a larger enterprise infrastructure.  This flexible architecture enables customers to scale their cloud-based, virtualized, or bare metal infrastructures while maintaining the seamless “one-stop” discovery, and playback experience intelligence analysts need. AIMES Server software is available on Red Hat Linux.

Recommended Server

• VMWare Version: ESXI 6.5
• Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
• CPU: 8 vCPU
• Memory: 64 GB
• Storage: 20 TB based on 4 HD feeds at 8 Mb/s and 30 days of online storage
• RAID Configuration: 200 GB database partition or higher

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Leidos AIMES Exploit is a flexible and extensible 64-bit video exploitation application that enables third-party web-based capabilities to interact with the core GPU-enabled application through an embedded browser engine and JavaScript API/SDK (Software Development Kit).  This technology enables customers to rapidly incorporate new capabilities (such as automated report and product creation workflows from the Unified Collection Operation Reporting Network (UNICORN) tool) into the exploitation environment without incurring costly integration or recertification expenses.

AIMES Exploit brings enhanced situational awareness tools to the customer with a new Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Viewer and Video Moving Target Indicator (VMTI) tracking tool. Our new GEOINT Viewer enables third-party Web Map Service (WMS) support, allows users to see tracks, stare-point, and data layers that brings near-real-time (NRT) context to the mission. Our new VMTI tool parses and visualizes MISB 903.4 object detection data enabling Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) and Structured Observation Management (SOM) analysis and reporting paradigms.

The new video processing pipeline enables super-resolution image scaling, video multiplexing, transcoding, data conditioning, and advanced analytical processing that allows dynamic configuration of an end-to-end video processing flow that can be used to transform a stream before rebroadcast, system ingest, or within the end user’s client environment. This approach enables customers to configure their own custom video processing stream that can leverage one or more Leidos or third-party algorithms to rapidly integrate new sensors or analytics.

Key Features

• H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) and H.265 (MPEG-H Part 2)
• HD and 4K support
• HTML5 and MPEG-DASH support
• GEOINT Viewer with Esri® ArcGIS and third-party WMS support
• Super-resolution image upscaling
• VMTI support (MISB 0903)
• Built-in support for UNICORN product automations
• Real-time ingestion of multiple live feeds
• Work Tray to facilitate workflow

Recommended Workstation (4 x HD Feeds)

• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional
• CPU: 2.8 GHz (8 Cores)
• Memory: 32GB
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro with Pascal Architecture
• Display: 1920 x 1080 pixels

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Leidos AIMES PICTE captures MPEG transport streams transmitted over a network via unicast or multicast. It supports multiple video, audio, and metadata standards in real-time offering the ability to condition and correct the stream before sending it to workstations for exploitation and a database for archival. It provides real-time full motion video (FMV) processing, aligning with the standards and profiles established by the Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB), Motion Imagery Standards Profile (MISP) and Closed-Caption (CC) Metadata Processing, and video metric generation and distribution.

AIMES PICTE uses open architecture to easily allow information collected through the processing pipeline to be distributed on an enterprise scale or locally to third-party applications. AIMES PICTE can interact with third-party applications to add, configure, update, start, stop, and delete missions without the user interface to allow for automation and streamlining of setup. For general users, AIMES PICTE is configured and controlled from a web-based thin client for all Command and Control (C2) and metric visualization. AIMES PICTE can support multiple feeds to handle a normal mission load, and is easily scaled into a clustered or “hub” setup to account for extreme mission loads. AIMES PICTE software is available on Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Technical Specifications

• MPEG Transport Stream video and metadata
  • MPEG-2 Standard Definition and High Definition support
  • H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 / MPEG-4 AVC
  • H.265 / HEVC / MPEG-H Part 2
  • MISP KLV metadata-only
  • MPEG TS with EIA-608 or CEA- 708 CC metadata
  • NATO STANAG 4609
• MISB Standards
  • MISB Standard 0102.11
  • MISB Engineering Guideline 0104
  • MISB Standard 0601.11
• High Definition (HD) TV MPEG-2
• Analog NTSC
• Analog PAL
• HD-SDI

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Leidos AIMES Restream allows the user to simulate multiple live data feeds of MISP compliant motion imagery transmitted over standard networks via User Data Protocol (UDP)/Internet Protocol (IP) unicast or multicast. AIMES Restream works with existing files formatted as Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) transport streams. AIMES Restream software now supports H.265 and is available on Microsoft Windows or Red Hat Linux based systems. 

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Leidos AIMES Reflector allows the user to redirect User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) data streams from one Internet Protocol (IP) address/port number to another IP/Port number. AIMES Reflector supports incoming and outgoing unicast or multicast UDP streams and TCP client/server data streams. It gives users the ability to intercept and redirect data (including streaming video). AIMES Reflector software now supports H.265 and is available on Microsoft Windows or Red Hat Linux-based systems. 

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