Advanced Maritime Analysis Cell AMAC

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Advanced Maritime Analysis Cell (AMAC)

• Integrating innovative tools and tomorrow's
  technology for the maritime domain
• LCDR Jim Ford
• June 2006

Overall Classification UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO
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Advanced Maritime Analysis CapabilityMission
and Functions

• Provide the National Maritime Intelligence Center
  with a capability to identify technology,
  tactics, techniques and procedures that will
  enhance the NMICs ability to provide timely,
  relevant and predictive intelligence to the
  Fleet, National Intelligence Community, and
  Senior Government Decision Makers.

New Analytic Techniques
Access to Data
Advanced Technology

• Identify
• Identify the best COTS, GOTS, Research tools
• Leverage existing efforts and organizations such
  as DIA, RDEC/IDC-E, ICCIO, JHU APL, NPS, ONR,
  USNA, etc.
• Innovate
• Develop the tools and the analysts who use them
• Evaluate
• Evaluate functionality in a classified
  environment using real data and real problems
• Integrate
• Integrate the technology, tools, techniques and
  procedures into ONI

UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO
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Advanced Maritime Analysis Cell CONOPS
New Tools
ONI Analysts

• AMAC Cadre
• Identify and evaluate new technology, tools,
  techniques and procedures
• Integrate into the AMAC Environment (AMAC-E),
  evaluating functionality in a classified
  environment using real data, real analysts and
  real problems
• AMAC-E
• System high sandbox where analysts can access
  multiple concurrent databases with new tools
• CORNERSTONE II
• AMAC Cadre assists guest ONI analysts in
  integrating new solutions to solve their problem
  sets
• Candidate Problem Sets
• Identified by ONI-1 (Operational Maritime
  Intelligence) and ONI-2 (Naval Analysis) for
  attack

JWICS
New Techniques
RDEC
New Technology
SECRET
Maritime Problem Sets
UNCLAS
AMAC Environment
Analysts
AMAC Cadre
Candidate Problem Sets
Improved Analysis
Innovative Tools
Advanced Techniques
AMAC is where leap-ahead solutions are developed
and implemented, advancing the capability of ONI
analysts to attack todays and tomorrows
maritime intelligence problems
ONI Customers
Senior Decision Makers
National IC
Fleet
UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO
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AMAC Analytic Environment
Semantic analysis is the study of meaning,
structure, links and patterns of entities and
their temporal, logical or geospatial confluences.
N-dimensional analysis is the analysis of
multiple attributes (time, location, entities,
semantic values, etc.) concurrently in order to
determine relationships, locality, clustering
Geospatial analysis integrates spatial and other
kinds of information within a single
georeferenced system,
Temporal analysis is the examination of
enitities, relationships and their confluence
over time.
RDEC
TS SCI
SECRET
UNCLAS
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Project ProteusOverview and Mission Statement

• ONI requires a capability to attack the Maritime
  Information Domain subsequently conducting
  advanced analysis
• The aggregate corpus of information is enormous
  in its size and complexity.
• Current approximations characterize it at over
  twenty separate databases, at multiple
  classification levels, with over 15 terabytes
  (TB) of information
• It is currently assessed to be increasing several
  TBs a month.
• Project Proteus Goal.
• Develop an advanced analytic capability which can
  process multi-TB quantities of information,
  extract entities and relationships, then analyze
  the geospatial, temporal and semantic confluences
• Enable an analyst to establish determine and
  derive causalities, correlations and eventually
  predict the potentialities maritime entities and
  their activities

Project Proteus will revolutionize maritime
domain analysis. It represents a quantum leap in
knowledge discovery and analysis. Analysts will
be able to correlate seemingly disparate separate
entities and relationships, identify networks of
interest, detect patterns, and eventually
anticipate adversary movements.
UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO
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Project ProteusMaritime Information Domain
Advanced Analytic Capability
Knowledge Zone
Geospatial Analysis and Visualization
Cargo Data
Netezza DW
Geospatial analysis integrates spatial and other
kinds of information within a single
georeferenced system
Ship Data
Raw tripletsphere and DB
Semantic Analysis and Visualization
ROCKWELL
IBM CellBlade
Biometric Data
Semantic analysis is the study of meaning,
structure, links and patterns of entities and
their temporal, logical or geospatial confluences.
IBM CellBlade
Aggregation of Information sources into XML
streams
Automatic entity extraction and triplet creation
Documentation
Temporal Analysis and Visualization
Tripletsphere analysis and graph construction
Temporal analysis is the examination of entities,
relationships and their confluence over time.
Message Traffic
N-dimensional Analysis and Visualization
Other NMIC Databases
N-dimensional analysis is the analysis of
multiple attributes (time, location, entities,
semantic values, etc.) concurrently in order to
determine relationships, locality, clustering
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Project ProteusArchitecture capabilities

• gt5 TB raw and pre-processed data storage
• Architecture capable of operating at gt5 Teraflops
• Entity extraction and triplet creation of
  unstructured and structured data sources
• Data refinery and advanced analysis suite capable
  of complex query searching against entire corpus
  of data in less than 3 minutes
• Ability to ingest any new data source, performing
  all extract, transform and load (ETL) functions
  in less than 72 hours after identification
• Data ingest rate greater than 10 GB per hour
• Data lineage and data pedigree tags for all
  ingested information, extracted entities and
  resultant analytic products
• Expandable and scalable architecture able to be
  deployed onsite at the NMIC
• Capability deployed and achieve IOC no less than
  120 days from start of project
• Architecture able to be accredited and certified
  as a DODIS production system within 180 days of
  IOC.

Project Proteus will culminate in a dramatic
increase in timely, relevant and predictive
support to operational forces, the intelligence
community and decision makers.
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