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Next Generation Activity-Based Intelligence Solutions Showcased at GEOINT Community Week

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Thermopylae Sciences & Technology had the unique opportunity to provide a training session on how next generation mobility is affecting the way we deal with intelligence data for the Intelligence Community (IC) during GEOINT Community Week, hosted by USGIF.

With GEOINT Week centered on the topic of activity-based intelligence (ABI), Thermopylae’s Chief Innovation Officer, John-Isaac Clark, spearheaded the training, which focused on in-depth solutions and technologies, key government, defense and commercial use cases, as well as high-level insights into the four following ABI pillars:

  • Geo-Reference to Discover
  • Sequence Neutrality
  • Data Neutrality
  • Knowledge Management

The foundation of the Geo-Reference to Discover pillar is about combining geo data with other data sets to inform more efficient decision-making and help lead to better insights into that data. Trends in mobile device usage for data gathering are changing the face of what information we have access to and the speed at which it becomes available.  Organizations can now leverage multiple data sources for quicker access to ground truth, on-demand access to information from better collaboration, as well as the ability to reduce the overall time to access information.

The Sequence Neutrality pillar focused on how organizations can use available temporal data to show past, current, and future trends which is ideal for planning for natural disaster response or other public events that could compromise citizen safety. The true value to using temporal data to inform future events is not as much in better response preparation, but rather it is learning how to better mitigate the risks involved.

As organizations continually deal with a tidal wave of data, there is a growing need for enhanced data indexing solutions, which was the key takeaway from the Data Neutrality pillar.  From heavier LiDAR data sets to Foursquare data, information must be easily indexed and accessible at all times.  Massive data indexing efforts are helping to make the information pulled from all of these new sources actually usable.

All data is important, but all data is not necessarily knowledge. This was our main lesson for the Knowledge Management pillar.  Most data sources come with an incredible amount of metadata that can be useful to gain deeper insights into the context of the data: who created, when, why, and how.  When this data is married with the right application, then it can transform into the actionable knowledge needed for timely decision-making.

Where many technical presentations in our sector are aspirational, this training was grounded in real-world case studies, which included success from the Army G2 Windshear program, U.S. Department of State, commercial applications, and the U.S. SOUTHCOM Knowledge Management program.

GEOINT Community Week provided us with the ideal platform to show how next-generation ABI solutions are already coming to life and how it is possible for defense and intelligence organizations to leverage data from multiple sources and truly make use of it to enhance decisions that ultimately save lives.

 


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