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ISN Insights - Aug. 2, 2011

Building a Better 'Cyber Range'

Mimicking the traffic associated with large live networks also presents challenges. "You need that type of traffic in order to be able to sniff out what vulnerabilities are out there," said Peter Mozloom, vice president for cyber solutions at Modus Operandi, a US-based software company that serves the defense and intelligence community. More>>

 

 

 

Intelligent Utility - July 13, 2011

Cyber Expertise Lacking?

Modus Operandi, Inc. works on connecting disparate, human-generated intelligence and reports by using "natural language" science so the massive volume of verbal and written commentary generated by myriad intelligence sources yields actionable responses. The underlying theme between that pursuit and utility security is "information assurance," according to Peter Mozloom... More>>

 

Government Security News - Dec. 17, 2010

Analytic tools designed to catch terrorists might also be useful in cyber-space

For years, a company called Modus Operandi, Inc. has been developing software tools that help intelligence analysts extract bits-and-pieces of valuable information from a wide variety of printed materials by finding patterns and relationships among those pieces of data that can help the analyst identify terrorists and the plots they are hatching. More>>

 

Search SOA - Nov. 2, 2010

SOA, semantics and services combine in DoD intelligence sharing effort

"To win on the modern battlefield, it's all about information collaboration," said Tod Hagan, director, ISR Software Solutions, Modus Operandi Inc., based in Melbourne, Fla. "In the past, systems that collected intelligence existed in silos, which were not good at sharing information. They were all developed with different technology and different data models." More>>

 

 

SYS-CON Media - Oct. 5, 2010

Service-Oriented Architecture and Cyber Security

According to Tod Hagan Director, ISR Software Solutions; the framework this firm has developed, can allow an analyst to produce essential and immediate field ready intelligence within a timeline which enables effective counteraction e.g. data which normally takes several days to parse and interpret can now be parsed and interpreted within several hours or minutes. More>>

 

 

Search CIO - Aug. 25, 2010

SOA solutions create a wrapper for legacy modernization

Tod Hagan, service-oriented architecture expert and director of intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance solutions at consulting firm Modus Operandi Inc., recently spoke with SearchCIO.com about SOA strategies. More>>

 

 

 

 

Defense Systems - July 2010

A giant leap forward in intelligence sharing

One of the biggest problems that Defense Department intelligence analysts face isn't a lack of information — rather, it's finding the right information buried in the sea of data that exists on DOD's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance networks. More>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signal Magazine - June 2010

Googlizing Intelligence

Modus Operandi Incorporated, Melbourne, Florida, has spent the last several years designing semantic software that tags text in a way that enables intelligence analysts to extract key information about designated entities. More>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Military Embedded Systems - Jan/Feb 2010

Top technologies for the warfighter

Companies like Modus Operandi have won DARPA contracts to take open source data and use it for tactical exploitation. More>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Government Executive - Feb. 1, 2010

FEATURES Up in the Air

"All types of sensors are getting cheaper and easier to deploy. The challenge we face is how to help analysts make sense of this overwhelming volume of data. To compound matters it's not just one type of data - human intelligence, imagery, signals intelligence, all of which come in different formats." More>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

C4ISR Journal - Jan. 2010

THE GET-WELL PLAN

"We're not trying to replace them (analysts)," said Tod Hagan, director of ISR Software Solutions at Modus Operandi Inc. "We're trying to help them do their jobs better." His company has a tool that uses key words to analyze print matter More>>

 

 

 

 

 

Military Embedded Systems - Nov.-Dec. 2009

C4ISR AND THE BIG PICTURE

By overlaying sensor data with human text documents, such as "… at 20:00 hours there was single vehicle activity at the Northern border crossing …", commanders will get a different view of the battlefield to aid in decision making. More>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISN (International Relations & Security Network) - Aug. 6, 2009

Web 3.0: Installing the Plumbing

The first phase of the project is designed to use advanced semantic techniques to automate the study of large amounts of textual data and discover patterns and clues that will provide warfighters with near real-time situational awareness, according to Richard Hull, the company's chief scientist. More>>

 

 

 

 

Defense News - June 2009

Managing the Data Tsunami

There are so many sensors collecting so much data that "they are overwhelming our ability to process" it, said Tod Hagan, a software scientist who is working to solve the problem. "The goal is to produce actionable intelligence in a useful time frame," Hagan said.. More>>