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Counterterrorism

Timely and accurate intelligence is essential to countering the threat of global terrorism, but the nature of this threat can produce a glut of information for analysts. Adding to this challenge is the fact that terrorists rely on a series of loosely connected criminal activities to fund and carry out their objectives including: fraud, forgery, drug trafficking, money laundering, INS violations, murder and kidnapping.

To win the war on terrorism, it is critical to provide analysts with tools that can quickly discern patterns and meaning from large data sets and enable them to effectively share intelligence with a variety of agencies charged with countering terrorist activities and their many related crimes.

i2 provides a suite of tools that enable investigators to capture and organize data from a wide variety of sources, discover the hidden connections in disparate data sets and effectively communicate and share intelligence with cooperating agencies.

Analysts collect data from different sources including online public records, proprietary systems such as Pathfinder, existing databases, communications records, and human intelligence. i2 software allows analysts to store, organize and access multi-source data without advanced technical expertise.

Using iBase, a database specifically designed for investigations and intelligence, analysts can quickly build and populate a database readily adapted for all types of data, allow security level access to team members and run comprehensive reports.

When suspected terrorists go to great lengths to disguise their call activity, PatternTracer can be used find hidden connections in volumes of call record data.

With iBase, analysts easily construct even the most complex queries using drag-and-drop functionality and user-friendly wizards.

Access to intelligence information in existing databases is created through iBridge, a connectivity solution that enables live connections to multiple databases located throughout an organization. iBridge allows analysts to use Analyst's Notebook to query databases without learning advanced query languages or relying on a database expert.

With i2 products, analysts will spend less time searching for captured information, creating more time for analysis.

After information is collected, analysts and investigators need the ability to find hidden connections and meaning within volumes of disparate data. Analyst's Notebook enables analysts to quickly understand large amounts of data, uncover seemingly unrelated links and display complex information in intuitive visual charts. Charts can be generated automatically from structured data, or the analyst can manually build visual products.

These charts show the relationship between people, places, events, vehicles, phone numbers and more. Analyst's Notebook also provides for common intelligence grading systems such as the widely used 4x4 method. This means analytical charts are more than just pictures. All underlying chart information is captured behind each chart entity and graded on reliability.

Analyst's Notebook is used to visually analyze call data records to help reveal communication networks, focus the investigation and draw conclusions about future activity using temporal analysis.

Information sharing among a wide variety of law enforcement, military, and intelligence organizations is vital to winning the war on terrorism. Analyst's Notebook was designed with cross-agency operations in mind.

Information gathered by one agency can be combined with that of others by simply dragging and dropping related charts in Analyst's Notebook. Matching entities are automatically merged, cards updated and new links are established on the chart. No information is deleted in this process, and color coding systems can be used to indicate the source of information contributed by each agency.

The end result is an information sharing environment where each organization has access to the complete intelligence picture. With over 2,000 law enforcement, military and intelligence organizations using Analyst's Notebook, i2 products are a great way to facilitate information sharing without expensive backend IT expenditures.

The charts generated with Analyst's Notebook have proven effective in quickly communicating complex scenarios in intelligence reports and briefings. Charts can be printed out or shared electronically, even to those without access to Analyst's Notebook, by using i2's free ChartReader.

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