Defense and Intelligence and Digital Reasoning’s Technology

The case for Digital Reasoning’s technology being applied in Defense and Intelligence has been made, repeatedly, for many years. No other industry produces more raw data or has such pressing needs to get it analyzed. The faster and more accurately that information is processed the more lives can be saved.

Defense Needs

The Defense industry is always on the move. During peace time or war the competition is always there to build better, smarter and more useful weapons. Each weapon must find it’s place in your arsenal and have targets in the opposition’s arsenal or infrastructure to go after. Countering the enemy’s arsenal is one of the primary goals of many weapon systems. What are the capabilities of the opposition? What form will their weapons take? How can you avoid spending resources going down a blind alley building weapons that have no target or are ineffective? In other words, why bring a sword to a gunfight?

Complex Problems Solved

The main problem is determining the intention and direction of the opposition. You might get lucky with an educated guess. However, you don’t have to leave it up to guess work. The application of Digital Reasoning’s analytics will help you sift through large amounts of information collected. You aren’t looking for one document that is the key to making your decision. You are looking for the total picture which lies in more documents than any one person can read in a reasonable amount of time. You need a system that can scale for large numbers of documents, is noise resistant and can give you the ability to discover aspects of the information you would not be able to discover by hand.

Intelligence Needs

Intelligence, no matter its form, ultimately drives everything. You need to know who, what, when and where. You need to get beyond guess work, because sometimes what you really need to know is buried in one document that is grouped with millions of others. Searching implies a bit of knowledge about what you are searching for. If you don’t have that knowledge then you are left with the uncertainty of guessing what to search for. Intelligence agencies know that discovery is more important than search. A discovery engine is one that understands your intent and helps guide your analysis towards the relevant information.

For example, if your mission task is nuclear weapons proliferation you will be interested in search terms like “nuclear weapons program” but that search will miss an important document that does not mention it but does talk about “fuel rod reprocessing.” Imagine having your search for “nuclear weapons program” automatically augmented with “fuel rod reprocessing” or having the system suggest the augmentation? This is possible with Digital Reasoning’s analytical technology. It discovers relationships and makes it easy for you the analyst to leverage them.

No matter what your needs are; Digital Reasoning Systems has the technology to improve your process and help you get more from your analysis efforts.