DIANE: Revolutionizing the Way We Collect, Analyze, and Share Information

Abstract

The international intelligence community is in urgent need of specialized knowledge, tools, models, and strategies to track knowledge of terrorist-related individuals, groups, and activities that could make a significant difference in being able to anticipate, detect, prevent, respond, and recover from major threats and terrorist events. At this demo, we feature a specific suite of tools—The Digital Analysis Environment (DIANE)—and show how this powerful collection and analysis tool set provides intelligence analysts, researchers, and industry consultants and practitioners with the ability to extract open source information, conduct information and data analysis, and identify linkages and relationships between current events and potential future events. This suite of tools falls into what is now considered Terrorism Informatics, a relatively new stream of research using the latest advances in social science methodologies, technologies, and tools.