Government & Intelligence
Government agencies are tasked with a myriad of objectives including our country’s safety and security, improving efficiency and transparency, improving services to citizens, complying with regulations, providing information for smarter decision-making, maximizing resources and eliminating fraud, abuse and waste. Government workers need quick access to all of their data sources scattered across the world to harness timely and valuable information in order to accomplish their missions.
Enter Chiliad Discovery/Alert
Chiliad Discovery/AlertTM was initially created specifically for the U.S. intelligence community. In fact, the evolution of Chiliad’s software platform has been strongly influenced by government’s mission to protect its citizens. Chiliad’s patent-pending software was born out of the need to overcome the information “stovepipe” problem which was the nation’s principal vulnerability on September 11, 2001. Investigations into 9/11 concluded that “Connecting all the Dots” across information stored in incompatible databases, documents, and applications, located in different departments and organizations, would provide the proactive, real-time situational awareness necessary to interdict and avert a similar problem in the future.
Chiliad’s technology has been referred to by government officials as the “holy grail” of knowledge extraction in the post 9/11 world and is in use in several government programs today (see detailed list below).
In a recent FBI report, Chiliad Discovery/Alert was referred to as: "vital to the FBI". The report continues that "...without the software/services of Chiliad, the Bureau's investigative analysis efforts could potentially be incapacitated."
Chiliad Discovery/Alert Key Applications and Benefits:
- Provide Actionable Intelligence
- Streamlined Investigations
- Successful Fraud Detection
- IP Protection
- Compliance Management
- Increased Operational Efficiency and ROI
US Government Customer Testimonials
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The FBI is the lead US government agency for domestic counterterrorism.
The FBI has purchased a worldwide enterprise license to Chiliad's software. The agency is rapidly expanding its use of Chiliad's software. The results in increased user productivity and reduced response time have been as dramatic as any in the history of computing:
- FBI reported a reduction in the time needed to process a counterterrorism task from 32,000 hours to one-half hour
- Productivity savings of 170,000 analyst hours ($ 3 mil) in first four months of use
- 300% return on investment in productivity savings in first four months of use
- Contributing role helping to earn only 'A' score on "counterterrorism report card" issued to the US Government by the bipartisan members of the 9/11 Commission, for interdicting terrorist financing, as amplified in Congressional testimony
In a CBS Evening News story, the FBI CIO described the system driven by Chiliad's software as "the central database in the FBI's information-sharing approach in the post-9/11 world." The FBI Investigative Data Warehouse supports over 8,000 active multi-agency user accounts running one million queries/analyses per month across more than 50 multi-agency data sources, including over one billion documents and database records - with an average query/analysis response time of about four seconds.
In a CNN interview, one intelligence agency user called this software "uber-Google" (super-Google).
The FBI has referred to Chiliad's software in the Washington Post as "one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents." The agency has described the capability of this software as "connecting the dots in its fight in the war on terrorism."
In an FBI report, Chiliad Discovery/Alert was referred to as: "vital to the FBI". The report continues that "...without the software/services of Chiliad, the Bureau's investigative analysis efforts could potentially be incapacitated."
In describing the capabilities of Chiliad Discovery/Alert TM, the FBI report states, "This product is unique in the marketplace with respect to its combination of comprehensive functionality (dynamic context analysis, real-time concept/entity/recognition/extraction, etc.), accuracy (recall and precision), scalability, fully distributed peer-to-peer architecture and middle tier, continuous real-time filtering, flexibility and ease of integration with other software, and related capabilities."
The following quote comes from a publically available report from the FBI.
"Chiliad Discovery/Alert is in use on the systems of eight programs: Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW), FBI Automated Messaging Systems (FAMS), Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP), Operational Response & Investigative Online Network (ORION), Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force (FTTTF) Special Project Team, Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC), and National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). "
Users access Chiliad software over secure networks from FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center, DHS, CIA, NSA, and the Pentagon to connect the dots across hundreds of indexes in parallel, representing close to one billion structured database records and unstructured documents from multiple US intelligence agencies.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is responsible for creating a new Information Sharing Environment to connect US intelligence agencies. Both agencies have turned to Chiliad's software to take advantage of advanced scalable software for information sharing and real-time knowledge fusion across decentralized electronic information stovepipes and silos.
Selected and funded by ODNI, Chiliad's software was used to create the first operational pilot to achieve and demonstrate effective, secure decentralized information sharing across US intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The priority mission of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States. This important mission calls for improved security at America's borders and ports of entry as well as for extending our zone of security beyond our physical borders — so that American borders are the last line of defense, not the first.
CBP also is responsible for apprehending individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, stemming the flow of illegal drugs and other contraband; protecting our agricultural and economic interests from harmful pests and diseases; protecting American businesses from theft of their intellectual property; and regulating and facilitating international trade, collecting import duties, and enforcing U.S. trade laws.
The CBP houses some of the largest datasets and communications networks in the federal government.
CBP has licensed Chiliad Discovery/Alert to enable information sharing and for parallel processing across their massive decentralized CBP repositories. Specifically, Chiliad is being used to securely find, fuse, analyze, monitor, share, and act on the information in the CBP repositories