Disseminating ISR Products, Including Real-Time Moving Imagery, as a Multi-Service Enterprise

Success on the modern battlefield requires commanders to see first, understand first, and execute first. This is particularly true in unconventional operations where enemies are using asymmetrical threats to defeat our overwhelming combat power. Combat information is currently being provided by far ranging sensors of every sort in every intelligence discipline (IMINT, HUMINT, SIGINT, etc), all the way from space-based collection systems to battlefield interrogations. The ability to fuse that information and draw sound conclusions is dependent on automated applications that wade through the masses of information, culls out the relevant data, and is organized to present a coherent picture to the decision maker. This proposal explains the development of an automated system for information extraction and dissemination. The core of the system is a semantic ontology knowledge store. This knowledge store is utilized to extract concepts for automatic generation of metadata. By creating the potential for capturing domain knowledge in a semantic ontology, we furnish the basis for significant advances at the system level: 1.) automated concept extraction and 2.) metadata labeling and search capability. While this data mining capability is a potent technology advantage on the battlefield, this work expands the commercial potential in exploring business information.