Case Studies

JackBe Helps the DIA Take A Web 2.0 Approach To Intelligence Analysis

Organization Profile

The Defense Intelligence Agency is a Department of Defense combat support agency and an important member of the United States Intelligence Community. With over 11,000 military and civilian employees worldwide, DIA is a major producer and manager of foreign military intelligence. The DIA provides military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers and force planners, in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, in support of U.S. military planning and operations and weapon systems acquisition.

The Challenge

The need for rich and effective collaboration and integration solutions that enable communication flow throughout government departments are essential to building mission critical applications. In today's intelligence community, the need to be technologically driven correlates directly to the centralization of information among various government agencies.

Under time constraints, the Agency needed a fully functioning intelligence analysis platform that presented disparate information in an interactive, browser-based application and complied with rigorous government security standards.

The JackBe Solution

Project ‘Overwatch’ – powered by JackBe – is a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Virtual Operating Center (VOC) application that integrates multiple intelligence sources into a desktop-like intelligence asset dashboard for the real-time analysis of data.

Overwatch was designed to address the information gathering and analysis challenges of the DIA by empowering the end user to quickly paint a picture of situational awareness across various intelligence data sources, using a familiar paradigm of drag-and-drop and bookmarking.

The DIA chose JackBe because it eliminated significant time and risk in developing a solution. Alternative solutions could not rapidly bring together the disparate information sources and present them in an intelligence-user friendly environment.

The implementation of Overwatch has yielded numerous benefits for the DIA, including:

• Increased value, in a secure, governed way, from their SOA investment
• Empowerment of end users to create a timely picture of situational awareness for decision makers;
• Enhanced information sharing abilities allowing for real time access to mission critical information;
• Increased value from SOA investments.

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