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Project Lead: Mr. Ted Senator
Sponsoring Organization: DARPA
Website: https://www.darpa.mil/program/reduction-of-entropy-for-probabilistic-organization
Project Synopsis: The REPO AI Exploration effort aims to develop techniques that enable analysts to process large, unstructured and unorganized documentation datasets that contain electrical Computer Aided Design (ECAD) schematic files, mechanical CAD (MCAD) drawings, and flowchart/block diagram data. The goal is to implement REPO techniques into tools that reduce the technical and program risk of obsolescence management and re-engineering of legacy designs. REPO is specifically seeking capabilities to: conduct initial flow chart analysis and link block diagram data to text documentation in a single cohesive structure; automate analysis of ECAD and MCAD to identify and export notable features in graphs and human-readable summary formats; and generate chord diagram models that show relationships between dataset entities and permit analysts to consider relative magnitudes in comparison to alternative arcs, thereby understanding previously undiscoverable connections.