# REBIT **Domain:** Austin Research / Programs **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied research cluster with linked references; see the [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|evidence map]] for verification scope. **REBIT**, Rational Explanation of Beliefs, Intentions, and Threats, appears in Barber’s CV as ONR-funded work for maritime-domain awareness during 2006–2008. It adds explicit belief and intention reasoning to the lineage between IED prediction and the later DHS and [[wiki/Defense Threat Reduction Agency|DTRA]] grants. The shared research problem is interpreting observations in context rather than merely detecting a signal. The grant title identifies a research aim; an operational system’s ability to infer intentions would require separate validation. This distinction matters when following the methods toward [[wiki/Biosurveillance|biosurveillance]], where biological state and deliberate intent also require separate evidence. ## Connected entries [[wiki/Suzanne Barber|Suzanne Barber]] · [[wiki/Office of Naval Research|Office of Naval Research]] · [[wiki/Support for Predicting Improvised Explosive Device Attacks|Support for Predicting Improvised Explosive Device Attacks]] · [[wiki/Detection Before Attribution|Detection Before Attribution]] · [[wiki/Sensor and Social Networks Armed to Detect and Defend against Terrorist Attacks|Sensor and Social Networks Armed to Detect and Defend against Terrorist Attacks]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Executable Loop|The Austin Executable Loop — master document]] - [K. Suzanne Barber — UT curriculum vitae, p. 29](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/14637316/#page=29) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|Austin Research Evidence Map]]