Wednesday, 5/23/2007
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Level: Case Study

State fusion centers bring together an array of data from different government and non-government organizations with the specific mission to rapidly fuse, relate, analyze, and disseminate relevant information to law enforcement and other key constituents. The data has numerous representations and must be expressed to address many different applications. Automated processing, notification, verification, and dissemination of targeted information are essential for cross-organizational fusion. A key role of the fusion center is verifying and relating new knowledge to existing models to facilitate rapid identification and response to specific risks and criminal activities. Fusion center analysts must collaborate to create and validate new models to accurately identify evolving and emerging behaviors of interest. This presentation describes a semantically-based approach to leveraging knowledge modeling and text analytics to improve information management in fusion centers. The session will feature a demonstration and discussion of the lessons learned in deploying a system which

• Automatically conditions, analyzes, and processes new information
• Extracts, transforms, and associates metadata to problem-specific knowledge models
• Tracks and records information lineage for searching, reporting, and governance
• Joins disparate communities by allowing each to use their own semantic language to search for and subscribe to information while enforcing policy-based access to sensitive information.

Danielle Forsyth is CEO of Thetus Corporation. She co-founded the company in 2002 after over 20 years of 3D graphics engineering, marketing, and management experience at Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, @Last Software, Digimarc and Wavefront. Danielle is the co-author (with Roy Hall) of Interactive 3D Graphics in Windows. She has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business.

Cameron Hunt is a Project Manager for the Homeland Security Division of Scientific Research Corporation. Currently implementing a comprehensive analytical framework built around semantic technology for a major US law enforcement agency, he has also overseen the design, development, deployment, and support of numerous intelligence information systems employed by coalition forces in Iraq.