Adversary Behavior Acquisition, Collection, Understanding, and Summarization (ABACUS) Tool

Despite sophisticated collection technology and systems that attempt to fuse sensor data into actionable intelligence, our forces must still rely on individual judgments and dangerous close-range soldier sensing and searching to help identify those covert individuals who are most likely to act against our forces. To proactively uncover hostile adversary intent by exploiting multiple sources of existing intelligence (e.g., COMINT, BIOINT, HUMINT), we propose to design and demonstrate an Adversary Behavior Acquisition, Collection, Understanding, and Summarization (ABACUS) Tool. ABACUS consists of three main components: (1) a plug-and-play data processing architecture that ingests intelligence reports from multiple sources and provides a common semantic representation to aggregate information across multiple dimensions (e.g., spatial, temporal, economic, political); (2) a human behavior modeling and simulation engine that reasons about adversarial behavior and computes intent-based threat assessments of individuals and groups; and (3) a tool that integrates these capabilities for intelligence analysts at BCT and below and reflects Military Intelligence operational environments and workflow. At the end of Phase I, we will demonstrate ABACUS using in-house software and knowledge artifacts, and develop an evaluation plan thatwith guidance from the Sponsor and user communitywill ensure a transition ready design jumpstarting Phase II development.