DAC Innovation Blog

Welcome and thank you for checking out the DAC blog.  We have started this blog to provide a window into the work that we are doing at Decisive Analytics Corporation.  While we do many things at DAC, the content of this blog will come from those of us inside DAC that are developing cutting edge technologies that are offered through one of three divisions within the company:

1. Analytical Products Division -  APD is headed by Jessica and is responsible for our BOBCAT product suite.   BOBCAT is an analytical tool that provides guided prediction through large amounts of unstructured text.  By guided prediction, I mean BOBCAT enables you to navigate your way through large amounts of unstructured data (really anything that can be represented as text) based on automatically discovered themes and relationships.  More info on BOBCAT can be found over at the product website http://www.dac.us/products/bobcat/. BOBCAT is largely being applied to the counterterrorism problem, being used to identify suspicious activities and relationships between terrorists identified in text.
   
   
2. Video &  Imaging Division- VID is headed by Tim and is responsible for our Mainship product suite.  Mainship is a Media Asset Management (MAM) system which collects, indexes, and stores video assets including open source intelligence and broadcast news.  Mainship can work in virtually any language and supports many media types. Mainship is being used today in some of the largest government locations to monitor open source news and provide analysts access to open source situational awareness.
   
   
3. Technology Innovation Division- TID is headed by Mike. He is charged with working on difficult data fusion techniques that feed our two products, as well as identifying new areas where we can apply the mathematical techniques we have developed. Mikes current areas of interest include maritime domain awareness, cyber security, entity disambiguation, and CBRN data fusion among others.
   
   
   

I thought it might be nice to give a simple overview of the organization that will be contributing to this blog. We plan to use this blog, our twitter accounts, and our website to interact publicly with our customers and partners. We will be opening this blog up to many more on the staff to contribute. I look forward to the discussion that will follow.

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