NPACI 99

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NPACI 99 National Science Foundation Federal
Consortium Central Intelligence Agency
Angela Coppola Central Intelligence
Agency Directorate of Science and
Technology Office of Advanced Analytic Tools
Advanced Analytic Tools
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MISSION
Support the President, the National Security
Council, and All Who Make and Execute US
National Security Policy
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Informed Actionable Intelligence Inclusive Rel
easable Verifiable Knowing What We Know
and How We Know It
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The Challenge
Compartmentation Information Explosion Data
Reliability Data Availability Here Today, Gone
Tomorrow Environment...
Reduced Workforce --Changing Priorities -- Short
Deadlines
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Mission Imperative for CIAs IT Professionals
To dramatically improve core capabilities
..bringing information technologies to bear
on the intelligence process
Quickly, Systematically, and Innovatively The
Need Real Web-based Tools and a Robust
Infrastructure that will provide cross domain
information management - internal and external
-- intranet and extranet The Vision A
Networked Intelligence Community for the 21st
Century
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The Vision Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
A Networked Intelligence Community for the 21st
Century
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Implementing the Vision
NEEDS

• CONNECTIVITY Provide Secure Connection to Data
  and People
• Adapt to Changing Business Priorities
• Support Information Security in All Environments

• SPEED Provide Faster, More Responsive Service
• Compress the Intelligence Cycle
• Optimize Intelligence Reuse
• Serve Consumers on Their Terms

• VOLUME Provide Exponential Increase in Capacity
• Real-time Exploitation of All Media Types
• Automated Event and Anomaly Detection
• Targeted Dissemination

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Implementing the Vision
SPEED
VOLUME
CONNECTIVITY
NEEDS
CAPABILITIES
Information Security
ENABLER
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Partnerships... the means to meet the CHALLENGE
Today's Realities Reduced Budgets, Reduced
Workforce, Technology and Data
Explosion Solution Leverage Emergent
Technologies from Academia and Industry
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Capability
Goals
Business Enablers
Technology Enablers
Key Elements
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Global ConnectivityProvides the foundation for
the access to, and movement of, data inside and
outside the Intelligence Community, 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.
Goals

• Provide access - on demand -
• anywhere, anytime.
• Provide transparent ease of use.
• Provide privacy, confidentiality.

• Optimize use of the
• Global Information Infrastructure.
• Provide simultaneous accessibility
• to all networks.
• Provide support for all types of data,
• media and communication.

Technology Enablers
Key Elements
Business Enablers

• Single, seamless
• work environment
• Nonrestrictive
• Bandwidth

• IT infrastructure upgrade
• Secure mobile network
• access
• Secure , adaptable
• workspace
• Embedded identification and
• authentication system
• Increase Capacity 200 Fold

• Reliance on commercial
• solutions
• Alternative workspace
• policy
• Universal Data and Meta-
• Data Standards

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Collaborative EnvironmentProvides the ability to
communicate, coordinate, and share requirements,
expertise, products, and feedback among
consumers, collectors, analysts, and private
sector experts across time and distance.
Goals

• Facilitate virtual communities.
• Provide ready access to expertise
• and knowledge regardless of location,
• origin, or time.

• Provide a robust, secure, cross-platform
• information sharing architecture.
• Tailor intelligence products based on
• direct consumer access and feedback.

Business Enablers
Technology Enablers
Key Elements

• Work platform
• Production
• environment
• Smart, targeted
• delivery
• (push/pull)

• Multi- Media Desktop
• Publishing
• Desktop teleconferencing
• Multiple, individualized
• views of data
• Automated data
• conversion and
• presentation

• Implement the Agile Enterprise
• Model - Interactive management of
• roles, rights, and privileges
• Virtual teams on demand
• Incentivise Teamwork
• Modernize command and
• control model

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Knowledge ManagementProvides the framework to
capture, create, document, use, share, derive,
manipulate, modify, and manage knowledge to
leverage organizational resources and expertise.
Goals

• Provide timely, assured access to
• the world -- our knowledge base.
• Provide tools that enable intelligence
• products that are just-in-time.
• Provide for interactive consumer
• involvement.

• Capture explicit and tacit
• knowledge.
• Facilitate rapid retrieval and updates.
• Optimize data reuse.
• Facilitate continuous learning.

Key Elements
Business Enablers
Technology Enablers

• Incentives for knowledge
• building and sharing
• New roles and responsibilities for
• Knowledge Managers
• Oversight and control of Directory
• Services and data repository maps
• Ownership, access, sharing, and
• rights management
• Universal compliance with
• metadata standards

• Capture explicit
• and tacit corporate
• knowledge
• Store and use
• corporate
• knowledge

• Universal administration
• and access control
• Automated tagging,
• profiling, and indexing,
• Search and browse tools
• Smart agents for finding/
• capturing/alerting
• Data repository maps
• Utilization metrics for
• sources and products

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Cognitive ToolsProvides the ability to
understand and derive the significance of data,
to develop accurate and timely conclusions, and
to develop alternative scenarios and to
anticipate events.
Goals

• Provide means to filter and structure
• large volumes of information from all
• sources and media types.
• Discover patterns and anomalies
• to support analysis and forecasting.

• Exploit sophisticated modeling and
• simulation capability to analyze
• complex events.
• Enable multi-media presentations of
• multisensory information.

Business Enablers
Technology Enablers
Key Elements

• Machine transcription and
• translation
• Data mining, information
• extraction, summarization
• Multi-media Multisearch
• Automatic learning models
• Validation of arguments
• and analysis
• Modeling/simulation/gaming
• Anomaly detection methods
• Scenario development tools

• Integration of models
• and custom tools at the
• desktop
• Reward expertise in the
• use of cognitive tools

• Find and organize
• information
• Draw insights from
• information

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Information SecurityProvides the ability to
protect our people, data, and processes while
allowing the connectivity, collaboration,
knowledge management, and cognition necessary to
be effective in the information age.
Goals

• Promote data integrity.
• Protect communications.
• Enable accountability and
• traceability.

• Enable a secure, trusted single work
• environment.
• Provide data protection.

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E-Mail angela_at_ucia.gov Postal Service Central
Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science and
Technology Office of Advanced Analytic Tools ATT
Angela Coppola Washington, D. C. 20505
Advanced Analytic Tools