If I read the "digital catapult" stuff correctly
Then they don't want help with HOW to deal with ice, they only want help on video processing to IDENTIFY ice types. Rather than an aeronautical or engineering problem, it appears to be primarily a video processing task, and then they'll use existing technology to deal with it.
I suspect the identification challenge owes a lot to the fact that wings are invariably painted in a solid colour, usually white or silver, and a big part of a reliable video solution would actually be to apply a micro-pattern, rather than trying to distinguish different types of white ice on a featureless white surface under very strong sunlight.