Projects

ORION

Actionable intelligence is critical for threat-vulnerability analysis and for assessing potential terrorist threat scenarios.  However, the lack of an automated information discovery and analysis system that allows fast and effective retrieval, analysis, and fusion of information severely weakens the effectiveness and efficiency of using all available information for decision-making and threat analysis.  Currently, experienced analysts must perform fusion of such information.  As a result, much of the staggering collection of information is not utilized or significantly underutilized. Utilizing ORNL’s expertise in information analysis and fusion techniques, these challenges can be met using an agent-based information analysis and fusion system.

ORION Fact Sheet     ORION White Paper

I2IA: Image to Intelligence Archive

Enormous volumes of remote sensing image data are being produced on a daily basis throughout the world.  This geographical data is then analyzed to create scientific, military, and intelligence information.  This image information is critical for scientific and national security purposes. The typical process for managing geographical image information is to manually create an archive of imagery data.  Analysts must continually update this archive with new and better imagery.  Within the archive, each image must be normalized so that they can be readily merged, compared, and analyzed with other images.  Finally, these images must be manually searched when new information is required. We used an agent-based approach to achieve these objectives.

I2IA Fact Sheet    I2IA White Paper

CIPHER: Counterintelligence Penetration Hazard Evaluation and Recognition

Cipher analyzes activity against valuable organizational assets, not merely at network packet statistics. We have demonstrated CIPHER using 1 million suspect records that occur daily on the ORNL networks. CIPHER allows us to quickly finding potential “low and slow” intrusion attacks from sophisticated attackers.

CIPHER Fact Sheet

VIPAR

US Pacific Command’s commander-in-chief Admiral Blair calls VIPAR “A tremendously successful project” where “Software agents … lead to substantially improved analytical products.”  The USPACOM Science and Technology Advisor calls VIPAR “a grand slam home run!” the “first time we've seen information discovery and knowledge management software working at HQ USCINCPAC operationally.” VIPAR collects organizes and displays information from various electronic information sources. It can be used by the military intelligence and business communities to provide timely coherent information summaries of world news and intelligence from web-based sources.

 VIPAR Fact Sheet

Collaborative Management Environment (CME)

DOE funds a vast amount of scientific research in a very broad range of areas. It is not surprising that each of its national laboratories follows independent research management processes tailored to the expertise of that laboratory.  Information resulting from these management processes, however, is in different formats and at different levels of granularity that, in turn, makes the overall management of DOE-funded research a difficult challenge. We developed the Collaborative Management Environment (CME) to meet this challenge.

CME Fact Sheet