GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Navy To Build System For Identifying Security Threats

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Information Week

21March2011 4:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The Navy is developing a new software-based intelligence system that fuses information from a variety of sources to more quickly and efficiently identify possible security threats, according to the company building the system.

The military arm has awarded a Phase 1 small business innovative research contract to Florida-based Modus Operandi to build an intelligence-analysis and counterintelligence system called the Semantic Targeting and All-source Fusion Framework, or STAFF.

The company is not disclosing the amount of the award, according to a Modus Operandi spokesperson.

The system combines a range of ways to gather intelligence information -- including human intelligence, signals intelligence, full-motion video, and moving-target indicator data, the last of which involves using radar to find a moving target among fixed objects, according to the company. (read full report)

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