Feds Open 'Total' Tech Spy System

Wired News ^ | 8/7/02 | Eliot Borin

[ksen]

Had Winston Churchill been alive in the months subsequent to Sept. 11 he might well have described U.S. intelligence agencies' performance prior to the attack thusly: Never have so many known so much and done so little.

On Wednesday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will begin awarding contracts for the design and implementation of a Total Information Awareness (TIA) system.

[Matthew James]

Thanks!

[SkyRat]

We have transitioned some of the Genoa tools and will build on the past work primarily to address tools for collaborative reasoning, estimating plausible futures and creating actionable options for the decision maker. While the original Genoa project was aimed primarily at supporting intelligence analysis, under Genoa II we plan to focus on supporting policy and decision-making at strategic levels.

The Genoa program look very interessting.

Program Strategy:

Genoa II will develop and deploy:
1) cognitive aids that allow humans and machines to “think together” in real-time about complicated problems;
2) means to overcome the biases and limitations of the human cognitive system;
3) “cognitive amplifiers” that help teams of people rapidly and fully comprehend complicated and uncertain situations; and,
4) the means to rapidly and seamlessly cut across – and complement – existing stove-piped hierarchical organizational structures by creating dynamic, adaptable, peer-to-peer collaborative networks.

Planned Accomplishments:

FY02/ FY03: Design faster systems of humans and machines by assimilating new information technologies to operational agencies to meet asymmetric threats.

FY02/ FY03: Develop tools for cognitive amplification by extending the ability of software to model current states, estimate plausible futures, support formal risk analysis, and provide for automated option planning. Supporting technology includes the use of intelligent agents, cognitive machine intelligence, associative memory, neural networks, pattern matching, Bayesian inference networks, and biologically inspired algorithms.

FY02/ FY03: Develop tools for cross-agency collaboration designed to operate across existing hierarchical organizations while maintaining control and accountability. Areas under consideration will include: KM; corporate memory; context- driven, declarative-policy enforcement; self-aware data; business rules; self-governance; and automated planning.

Is it just me or is GenoaII aimed to build an AI? Or what exactly means the bold parts in the above text?