CEDAR email: Countdown: PINS Challenge Begins on Monday

[Miller, Ethan S.]

CEDAR Community,

At least year’s CEDAR meeting, I let you know that this is coming; we also announced it at the URSI NRSM in Boulder in January.  Now, it’s almost here!

This is probably more relevant to students than most of the researchers on the list; so, please share it with your students and other tinkerers you know who may be interested.

Please direct questions to the e-mail address below (not to me directly) as it will be forwarded to someone who can best answer your question.

--Ethan.

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Ethan S. Miller, Ph.D.
Group Supervisor / Geospace and Earth Science
Project Manager / National Security Space
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, MD 20723-6099   USA


From: "PINS-Challenge-ALL [EXT]" <dni-iarpa-pins-challenge-all at iarpa.gov>
Date: Friday, May 17, 2019 at 2:17 PM
To: "PINS-Challenge-ALL [EXT]" <dni-iarpa-pins-challenge-all at iarpa.gov>
Subject: Countdown: PINS Challenge Begins on Monday


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On Monday, May 20, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)’s Passive Ionospheric Non-Characterized Sounding (PINS) Challenge goes live!
This open innovation competition asks participants to come up with novel and creative ideas to estimate ionospheric states using a small set of digitized radio-frequency (RF) spectrum recordings containing active sounders.
The Challenge runs from May 20 to August 30 with cash prizes from a pool of $150,000. The challenge will run in two phases: Part I, the Explorer Challenge, will specify the sounder signals to be detected and characterized. Part II, the Master Challenge, will add new data sets along the way.
Prize details:
Explorer Challenge:

  *   1st place overall: $25,000
  *   2nd place overall: $10,000
  *   3rd place overall: $5,000
  *   4th place overall: $3,000
  *   5th place overall: $2,000
  *   6th - 10th place overall: $1,000 each ($5,000 total)
Master Challenge:

  *   1st place overall: $50,000
  *   2nd place overall: $20,000
  *   3rd place overall: $7,500
  *   4th place overall: $3,000
  *   5th - 10th place overall: $2,000 each ($12,000 total)
  *   Presentation bonus: 3 x $2,500 each ($7,500 total)
Do you have what it takes?
Learn More About the Challenge
http://bit.ly/PINSChallenge

For updates, follow @IARPAnews on Twitter and join the conversation using #IARPApins. For questions, contact us at PINSChallenge at IARPA.gov<mailto:PINSChallenge at IARPA.gov>.
Be sure to check out our resources if you have any questions!

Thank you,
The PINS Challenge Team
PINSChallenge at IARPA.gov<mailto:PINSChallenge at IARPA.gov>
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), focuses on high-risk, high-payoff research programs to tackle some of the most difficult challenges of the agencies and disciplines in the intelligence community. IARPA’s challenges invite experts from the broader research community to participate in IARPA research in a convenient, efficient, and non-contractual way.

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