Open Source Center
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- SureView Analytics
Tech Stack
- Data Harmonization
- Data Visualization
- Exploratory Analytics
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Data Mining
Applicable Industries
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
The Open Source Center (OSC) is the US Government’s premier provider of foreign, open-source intelligence. OpenSource.gov provides information on foreign political, military, economic, and technical issues beyond the usual media from an ever-expanding universe of open sources including social media. OSC’s website contains sources from more than 160 countries, in more than 80 languages, and hosts content from several commercial providers as well as content from OSC partners. OSC promotes the acquisition, procurement, analysis, and dissemination of open source information, products and services throughout the U.S. Government including content generated for the daily briefs to the White House. In fulfilling their mission, OSC evaluates content derived from newspapers, blogs, TV, radio, conferences, chat rooms, and social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) sources to create a comprehensive understanding of emerging threats and situations of concern to the United States and its allies.
The Challenge
The Open Source Center (OSC) is the US Government’s premier provider of foreign, open-source intelligence. OSC collects data from a wide range of sources, formats, content, media, and languages resulting in large volumes of data distributed across multiple repositories. One of OSC’s challenges is to derive value from this corpus, providing accurate insights while remaining flexible to incorporating new sources and integrating different technological capabilities. OSC analysts needed technology to help discover content, accomplish data harmonization (integration), identify relationships and connections in the data, use visualization and exploratory analytics to better understand the content, and capture/ enable the sharing of analytic discoveries (retain knowledge). OSC must be able to quickly respond to constituent requests from other agencies or Congress, special projects, and general inquiries and therefore required a system that was adaptive, flexible, and agile with respect to the changing landscape of data, requests,and knowledge.
The Solution
OSC needed a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) system that could be applied to real-world client data, used effectively by the analysts, and that could derive results to be used in an operational setting. OSC needed a framework to easily harmonize data from a variety of sources, formats, content, and languages, including a means to define entities (people, addresses, phones, emails, facilities, events, etc.) and expose their critical relationships and connections. The system was expected to automate the harmonization of data and help determine where duplicate or potentially similar entities exist. Through a very extensive selection process, OSC defined their requirements and selected SureView Analytics due to its ability to enable analysts to quickly see patterns, trends, and critical network associations across large volumes of disparate data.
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