Open Source Intelligence Access All Intelligence All Languages

Open Source Intelligence: Access All Intelligence, All Languages, All the Time in Presented by Abe Lederman, President and CTO Deep Web Technologies, LLC IOP ’ 06 Sheraton Premier, Tysons Corner, Virginia January 16 -20

About Deep Web Technologies (DWT) DWT is a New Mexico based company focused on providing state-of-the-art software solutions which search, retrieve, aggregate, and analyze content. • Deployed first “federated search” portal in the Federal Government, 1999 • Major clients include: – – – DOE Office of Scientific & Technical Information Defense Technical Information Center Science. gov Alliance DOE Office of Science National Agricultural Library

Open Source Intelligence The Problem: • Collecting and analyzing enormous quantities of information in any language, in myriad formats, located anywhere, accessible through a large variety of means, with a majority not accessible through the Internet

Shared Challenge: OSINT and Knowledge Discovery/Diffusion OSINT Challenges Knowledge Discovery/ Diffusion Challenges DWT for the past six years has been the lead technical organization addressing these challenges in collaboration with DOE Office of Scientific & Technical Information

The DWT Proposition To apply DWT’s technology, expertise and ongoing innovations* to address the challenges of OSINT *Developed in partnership with DOE/OSTI

Challenges in Working with Thousands of Data Sources Locate Reliable Sources Categorize Sources by Content Configure Sources for Searching Maintain Sources

Challenges in Searching Thousands of Sources Automatically Select Sources to Search Perform Many Searches in Parallel Translate, Analyze and Organize Results Relevance Rank Extract Key Information Cluster/ Visualize

TM Research. Assistant DWT’s State-of-the-art Federated Search Engine • Scalable, grid-computing based federated search engine • Sophisticated Search Conductor • Supports custom connectors • Multi-tier relevance ranking • Framework accepts integration of advanced linguistic, analyses, and visualization modules

Grid Computing: Distributing the Workload

Search Conductor Select sources to search Perform search Enough good results? NO YES Can I get more results from “good” sources? NO YES Deliver results to user

Multi-tier Relevance Ranking • Quick. Rank. TM – Ranks results based on occurrence of search terms in title and snippet • Meta. Rank. TM – Ranks results utilizing custom algorithms applied to metadata • Deep. Rank. TM – Downloads and indexes full-text documents

Science. gov Alliance Consortium of 12 Federal Government Agencies Dept of Agriculture Dept of Interior Dept of Commerce Environmental Protection Agency Dept of Defense NASA Dept of Education National Science Foundation Dept of Energy US Government Printing Office Dept of Health/Human Services National Archives & Records Administration Sponsoring Science. gov Portal (Access to most of Federal Government R&D

Science. gov Advanced Search Page

Science. gov Results Page

A Science. gov Document

Next Steps Identify Sponsors and development partners that can collaborate on the development of a pilot that integrates bestof-breed technologies of value to OSINT. This pilot will result in a portal that aggregates content of different types, generating actionable intelligence.

Contact Us Abe Lederman 122 Longview Drive Los Alamos, NM 87544 abe@deepwebtech. com www. deepwebtech. com http: //www. deepwebtech. com/talks/IOP. ppt