Instantaneous Clarity of Ambient eNvironment Capability (ICAN-C)

Overview

Development stage

PilotSource: b) Pilot – The use case has been deployed in a limited test or pilot capacity.

High-impact designation

Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact

Impact justification

Not reported

Start date

2025-08-01 (day precision)Source: 08/01/2025 00:00:00

Withheld from public reporting

Yes (disclosure risk)Source: b) Yes – agency has determined that there’s a risk to disclosure, such as a harm to an interest protected by a FOIA exemption

Mission

Topic area

Science

Operational functions

No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

To determine the applicability of using AI/ML to correct obscured vision. Landing systems where sedement is blown around and/or dusty environments are the primary application.

Expected benefits

Improving safety in instances of obscurred vision

System outputs

Output is clearer image

Technology

AI classification

Generative AISource: Generative AI: AI that generates new or synthetic content (e.g., images, videos, audio, text, code).

System name(s)

NA - local machine

Custom-developed code

No

Public source code

Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built

Developed in-houseSource: b) Developed in-house

Vendor (as reported)

Not reported

Vendors (standardized)

None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII

No

Privacy Impact Assessment

Not reported

Authorization to Operate

No

Demographic features

Not reported

Training and evaluation data

Open source image datasets and custom lunar lander datasets

Federal Data Catalog

Not reported

Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported