Press Releases

2008/03/13 - ITT and Chiliad to demonstrate Chiliad Discovery/Alert at the 2008 DoDIIS Conference

2008/03/03 - Chiliad Hires Dan Ferranti as CEO

Company Milestones

2007:

Industry seasoned management team hired to help to launch targeted marketing and sales initiatives in the Spring of 2008 for proven, market ready, highly referenced, and uniquely differentiated software suite.

$1.6 million funding awarded to Chiliad for a joint development project with the Air Force Research Labs (AFRL), the Department of Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection agency (DHS CBP), the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) and the FBI to enhance Chiliad's cross-agency knowledge fusion capability by tightly integrating cross-domain "trusted guard" capabilities to support distributed multi-level-security and by enhancing collaboration tools. This "CODIACKS" project will enable connecting the dots across TS/SCI, SECRET, SBU, and open source repositories securely, in conformance national security policy, requirements of the Director of National Intelligence, and US privacy laws.

A landmark information-sharing initiative funded by the office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE) completed its tasks and met its objectives within budget, on time, after two sixteen-week spirals--securely sharing datasets across multiple US intelligence agencies and one law enforcement agency over the SIPRNET. James R. Clapper, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Major General (Ret.) Dale W. Meyerrose (then CIO of ODNI and Deputy Director of National Intelligence), and Ambassador McNamara (Program Manager for the US government's Information Sharing Environment) received personal briefings and live demonstrations of Chiliad's advanced distributed knowledge fusion and sharing capabilities at NSA, the Pentagon, and the FBI.

Chiliad cooperative distributed search, analysis, knowledge fusion, and alerts at FBI spans 53 multi-agency data sources, serving 8,000 active users from multiple US intelligence agencies, searching and analyzing over 1 billion structured database records and full-text documents in parallel with one million queries per month

2006:

$2.7 mil funding by ODNI PM-ISE for FBI to create pilot using Chiliad Discovery - first ODNI funded pilot to demonstrate peer-to-peer fully distributed, cooperative federated search and analysis and distributed role-based document-level discretionary access control over a secure network

Chiliad technology used successfully to connect over FBINet, server clusters and classified data stored under multiple decentralized application stovepipes located in multiple states to demonstrate cooperative distributed search and analysis.

Chiliad deployed continuous monitoring capability and personal proactive alerts capability to the FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW) initiative, which connects joint counterterrorism task force users worldwide over SIPRNET, from the National Counterterrorism Center, DHS, CIA, NSA, FBI and the Pentagon

Washington Post, CNN, CBS Evening News interview FBI about Chiliad-driven IDW system. FBI reports, "One of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents" … "The central database in the FBI's information-sharing approach in the post-9/11 world" … "Connecting the dots in its fight in the war on terrorism" … "Processing time reductions for certain tasks from 32,000 hrs to ˝ hr" (64,000 times productivity increase for agents/analysts) … "One-stop shopping" … "agents say it works like a charm"

FBI Shows Off Counterterrorism Database > Washington Post, August 30, 2006
The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records -- including terrorist watch lists, intelligence cables and financial transactions -- culled from more than 50 FBI and other government agency sources. The system is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents, FBI officials said yesterday.

2005:

Members of bi-partisan 9/11 Commission issue counterterrorism "report card" to the federal government with mediocre to failing grades in many cases. According to the panel, the government deserved only one top grade, an A-minus, for its "vigorous effort against terrorist financing." Chiliad's analysis software contributed significantly to that single 'A' grade on the report card.

The Section Chief of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division and the Director of the Treasury Dept's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), testified to Congress, "The benefits of IDW include the ability to efficiently and effectively access multiple databases in a single query. As a result of the development of this robust information technology, a review of data that might have previously taken days or months now takes only minutes or seconds…the partnership between the FBI and FinCEN is a model for the effective sharing of information… The FBI has developed IDW as a tool to find the most critical pieces of information included in … data sets to … protect the United States."

FBI Director Robert Mueller provided the following testimony to Congress regarding the Chiliad-driven IDW system, "The FBI' s Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW) now provides Special Agents, Intelligence Analysts, and members of Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) with a single access point to more than 47 sources of counterterrorism data, including information from FBI files, other government agency data, and open source news feeds, that were previously available only through separate, stove-piped systems. New analytical tools are used across multiple data sources providing a more complete view of the information possessed by the Bureau."

Two Phase II SBIR awards made to Chiliad by AFRL: "Automated Metadata Generation" and "Predictive Analysis for Predictive Battlespace Awareness / Intelligent Preparation of the Battlespace"

Two SBIR Phase I awards made to Chiliad by AFRL: "Automated Metadata Generation" and "Predictive Analysis for Predictive Battlespace Awareness / Intelligent Preparation of the Battlespace"

2004:

FBI purchases worldwide enterprise license to use Chiliad Discovery search, analysis, and alerting software suite on all FBI computers

2000 - 2004:

Initial advanced research and development phase

Government Computer News: FBI gets on the case > GCN, July 14, 2003
"The bureau has adopted commercial data analysis tools to exploit the content of SCOPE. Some of the tools include the Chiliad Business Intelligence Suite from Chiliad Inc. of Amherst, Mass., which the bureau used to build its Athena Search System." 

1999 - 2000:

Initial investments: HP largest institutional investor with $24 million in investment and financing (less than 10% ownership, no voting Board seat).

1987 - 1999:

Over $25 million in pure research and early applied R&D. Research funding included USAF, ONR, DARPA, NSA, CIA, and an 8-year National Science Foundation research center established by NSF specifically around this technology - the National Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). Chiliad's President and Co-Founder was pivotal in the effort to establish and fund the NSF research center, as Deputy Chairman of the Computer Science Department, and served as the Center's Administrative Director until moving to the private sector.