Anti-Terrorism - Consequence Management and Recovery

Demonstrate the feasibility of producing a natural language processing engine capable of integrating into existing sensor and Information Technology products to disseminate crisis management data to enhance the ability of Naval forces to anticipate,prepare for, recognize, survive, and retaliate against a terrorist or other asymmetric attack. A natural language understanding (NLU) engine can fuse information from a wide range of disparate sources, providing intelligent decision support, andcoordinated crisis response strategies to shipboard, land-based, forward-deployed forces. NLU interfaces can be particularly beneficial in circumstances where the command structure is in temporary disarray or mission critical experts are incapacitated orotherwise separated from the group because of its ability to interpret and understand common language.We shall present a feasible conceptual approach to overcoming the technical challenges of implementing an integrated terrorist attack/crisis management response capability with a Natural Language interface. It will address the ability to interpret anumber of feeds and casualty conditions to trigger appropriate response strategies. Unlike a Boolean algorithmic construct which requires significant customized programming to implement, rigid compliance to a structured logic tree schema to operate, andskilled programmers to maintain, a natural language interface is flexible and easy to use. Expound competes in the self-service marketplace. Expound's conversational self-service applications transform existing commercial applications (CRM, ERP and Knowledge Stores) into interactive customer self-service applications. Natural languageself-service solutions also support learning, administration, corporate portals, help-desk applications and many other solutions as well. The Expound Advisor suite of products reduce stress on support channels by providing natural language automated,immediate and accurate responses to inquires and communications through the web, fax, email, IVR systems and hand-held devices.