Multimedia Collaboration Guard

The Intelligence Community (IC) faces an increasingly significant challenge in the timely acquisition, correlation and analysis of information. Information technology advances have resulted in the explosive growth in the volume and rate of data madeavailable to the analyst; this seemingly limitless supply of raw intelligence threatens to overwhelm the human element of the intelligence processing system. In addition, the uncertain and distributed nature of the emerging threat (e.g., terroristactivities) requires that the analyst be more responsive than ever before, despite the lack of traditional intelligence cues. Because of these challenges, intelligence analysis is becoming an increasingly distributed, collaborative endeavor. This projectwill develop a capability to provide a secure means of sharing authorized information between analysts at differing levels of security, using rich multimedia content. Operating within the security environment established by the ISSE Guard program,Multimedia Collaboration Guard will provide a standards-based capability to share audio, video, graphics and text.