TraceAI

Develop a new watermarking/blockchain technological approach that hardens against adversarial Al while ensuring the provenance, integrity, and quality of space-based artificial intelligence algorithms and training data for CubeSats and high-throughput space infrastructure.

Technical Merit

  • Improve cybersecurity in space to enable a larger scale, higher throughput, and a more securely interconnected ecosystem.
  • Enable on-orbit manufacturing capabilities to supply large scale space production industries.
  • Develop a process for monitoring secure and remote updates of AI/ML Models

Key Participants

Project Lead Agency

National Science Foundation

Academic Partners

UTSA

Commercial Partner

Constellation Network

Technology

  • Al/ML model governance process designed to harden against adversarial Al attacks and threats while delivering improved development efficiency
  • Scalable DAG blockchain designed, deployed, and optimized to maintain the pedigree and immutability of Al/ML models and associated training data
  • Dual use Al model development documentation process that enables immutable tracing and verification of intellectual property rights and copyright clearances
  • Tracing and tracking of AI.ML model training data to support VR/AR Simulation Balance testing requirements
  • CI/CD pipeline designed to enable autonomous on-orbit updates of Deep Learning algorithms.