Joint Collaboration Gateway (JCG)

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. Current events, including the War on Terrorism, serve to highlight the need for improvedintelligence and collection management.There is a clear requirement for multi-level secure (MLS) collaborative processing with improved search and filtering capabilities. We propose to design and develop a modular Joint Collaboration Gateway (JCG) architecture, based on ISSE Guard, to supportMLS multimedia collaboration. Our innovative JCG architecture will incorporate intelligent contextual search and filter engine technology to provide real-time security filtering and facilitate coalition information exchange. In developing the JCGarchitecture, we will rely on our experience and expertise and build upon our current efforts in which we are developing a MLS text chat capability, as well as support for other media types, including audio, video, and whiteboard using industry standardsH.323 and T.120. The Joint Collaboration Gateway will enable IC users to collaborate across dissimilarly classified networks in real-time. The JCG architecture supports Collaborative Targeting, Collaborative Mission Planning, and Collaborative Bomb Damage Assessmentbetween Intelligence Analyst and Command and Control Operators, all using standard collaboration tools. The contextual search and filtering capabilities will significantly improve recall and precision of database and web page queries, and improvedautomated MLS filtering of collaborative messaging.