LexisNexis and intelligence community

LexisNexis U.S., one of the leading providers of information management services, has recently announced a release of "Intelligence Analysis" - a solutions package designed to help analysts from intelligence and national security communities "pinpoint and identify relevant information contained within massive volumes of disparate data".

The capabilities offered in this package include:

-- "Open Source Analysis" - helping to understand national security threats by identifying operational signatures within disparate, multi-sourced data sets such as news articles, transcripts, scientific journals, public records and Web-based content;

-- "Maritime Domain Awareness" - helping to spot links between cargo, containers, businesses, crews and vessels "to enable risk assessment for effective interdiction and mitigation of threats before they reach U.S. shores"; and

-- "All-source analysis" - enabling to enrich classified data sets with information from open sources (such as news articles); in other words, analysts will be able to fuse data from multiple sources - both structured and unstructured.

This last capability provides an excellent federal agency example of
(1) having a Business Intelligence tool work in conjunction with a search engine (something discussed in an earlier post) - that is, returning results of a query executed over both structured and unstructured data; and
(2) presenting search results from both classified and unclassified data sources.

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