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2: Technology

To make available to analysts commercially developed or customized collaborative integration and analytic tools that will support the best quality and most timely analysis possible, with due consideration to cost and security; to provide analysts and customers seamless access to data, information, and expertise in a total knowledge management environment.

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Desired Outcomes: FY 2005 • Fully interoperable collaborative tools deployed across the IC and to key outside experts. • Collaboration environment shared with collectors to facilitate tasking and feedback. • Customers have full access to collaborative and knowledge management environments if they desire. • Digital production allows dynamic updating of a living knowledge repository. • Object-oriented user interface for all major data stores, fully linked to visualization tools. • Analytic and cognitive tools for all analysts to organize information and visualize connections. • Pilot capability for rapid multi-discipline data fusion/integration and dissemination. FY 2010 • Synchronous tools allow secure collaboration with experts any time from anywhere. • Fully interoperable data stores make sharing information seamless within the IC. • A dynamic knowledge base is fully accessible from anywhere at any time by authorized users. • Knowledge base linkage to collectors with information needs/gaps automatically identified. • Single search using natural language prioritized responses, with visualization tools. • Smart push and pull, automated summarization and database population reduces filtering task. • Cognitive tools will assist analysts in conceptualizing, testing, and substantiating analysis. • Robust capability for geographic, temporal, and phenomenological near-real-time data fusion, integrated analysis, and dissemination.

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