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Exploiting Information

QinetiQ combines an understanding of the latest technologies to emerge from academia with a knowledge of the information management challenges faced by the military in order to enable systems that can exploit real data and information sources to produce vital mission knowledge.

QinetiQ has conducted focussed research into information management techniques for the MoD over the last ten years. This research has explored the available technologies that are developing in the commercial marketplace and has developed a detailed understanding of the unique requirements of military users.

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The datamining tools developed by QinetiQ help to identify linkages between people places and events which might otherwise go unnoticed The significant challenge for the military is to discover what information already exists. This can be overcome by applying structure to unstructured information. To achieve this QinetiQ has developed an Information Catalogue process which tells the user what exists and where it is, helps to identify the best sources for particular types of information and prevents the collection of the same information more than once.
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When the catalogue is linked to a collaborative working environment it forms an "information broker" between users and their information sources.
QinetiQ's work is informing the implementation of the UK Joint
Reference Information Management Capability, which will provide a single point of entry for all reference information, which is planned to have an initial operating capability in 2008.

In a related field, information exploitation is required in order to make sensible deductions from the enormous amounts of data collected by intelligence organisations. Data mining is the discovery of interesting or novel patterns in very large data sets or collections of text documents. Over the last six years QinetiQ has developed sophisticated data and text mining tools to help intelligence organisations with this problem. This work is of real importance in the Global War on Terror.

QinetiQ has also conducted research into techniques drawn from Social Network Analysis (SNA). SNA allows insights about organisational structures and behaviours to be gathered from interactions between individuals. The technique can be used to establish the underlying social networks that actually underpin
organisations, identifying where there are weak links or vulnerabilities and how to protect or attack them.
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