Open Source Intelligence:

Presented by Abe Lederman, President and CTO

Deep Web Technologies, LLC

IOP ’06 Sheraton Premier, Tysons Corner, Virginia January 16-20

Access All Intelligence, in All Languages, All the Time

About Deep Web Technologies (DWT)

• Deployed first “federated search” portal in the Federal Government, 1999

• Major clients include:– DOE Office of Scientific & Technical Information– Defense Technical Information Center– Science.gov Alliance– DOE Office of Science– National Agricultural Library

DWT is a New Mexico based company focused on providing state-of-the-art software solutions which search, retrieve, aggregate, and analyze content.

Open Source Intelligence

The Problem:

• Collecting and analyzing enormous quantities of information in any language, in myriad formats, located anywhere, accessible through a large variety of means, with a majority not accessible through the Internet

Shared Challenge: OSINT and Knowledge Discovery/Diffusion

OSINT Challenges

Knowledge Discovery/ Diffusion

Challenges

DWT for the past six years has been the lead technical organization addressing these challenges in collaboration with DOE Office of Scientific & Technical Information

The DWT Proposition

To apply DWT’s technology, expertise and ongoing innovations* to address the challenges of OSINT

*Developed in partnership with DOE/OSTI

Challenges in Working with Thousands of Data Sources

Locate Reliable Sources

Categorize Sources by Content

Configure Sources for Searching

Maintain Sources

Challenges in Searching Thousands of Sources

Automatically Select Sources to Search

Perform Many Searches in Parallel

Translate, Analyze and Organize Results

Relevance Rank

Cluster/ Visualize

Extract Key Information

DWT’s State-of-the-art Federated Search Engine

• Scalable, grid-computing based federated search engine

• Sophisticated Search Conductor• Supports custom connectors• Multi-tier relevance ranking• Framework accepts integration of advanced

linguistic, analyses, and visualization modules

ResearchAssistantTM

Grid Computing: Distributing the Workload

Search ConductorSelect sources

to search

Perform search

Deliver results to user

Can I get more results from “good”

sources?

Enough good

results?

YES

YES

NO

NO

Multi-tier Relevance Ranking

• QuickRankTM – Ranks results based on occurrence of search terms in title and snippet

• MetaRankTM – Ranks results utilizing custom algorithms applied to metadata

• DeepRankTM – Downloads and indexes full-text documents

Science.gov Alliance Consortium of 12 Federal Government Agencies

Dept of Agriculture

Dept of Commerce

Dept of Defense

Dept of Education

Dept of Energy

Dept of Health/Human Services

Dept of Interior

Environmental Protection Agency

NASA

National Science Foundation

US Government Printing Office

National Archives & Records Administration

Sponsoring

Science.gov Portal

(Access to most of Federal Government R&D

Science.gov Advanced Search Page

Science.gov Results Page

A Science.gov Document

Next Steps

Identify Sponsors and development partners that can collaborate on the development of a pilot that integrates best-of-breed technologies of value to OSINT.

This pilot will result in a portal that aggregates content of different types, generating actionable intelligence.

Contact Us

Abe Lederman

122 Longview Drive

Los Alamos, NM 87544

abe@deepwebtech.com

www.deepwebtech.com

http://www.deepwebtech.com/talks/IOP.ppt