Modus Operandi and Smart Content for War Fighting

October 21, 2011

Search is not longer key word searching. The engineers at Modus Operandi have know this for a long time. We just learned that Modus Operandi has netted a deal to develop Anti-Submarine warfare technology.

The project is called The Anti-Submarine Warfare Find-to-Forecast (ASW F2F) methodology, architecture and prototype research project and is meant to improve mission commanders’ situational understanding. What makes this project interesting is that “smart” content technology will help operators find available ASW information sources, filter out irrelevant information quickly; format relevant information as a standardized knowledge representation; fuse normalized intelligence based on mission parameters; and forecast potential courses of action based on advanced, hybrid reasoning techniques.

According to an October 19 news release, “Modus Operandi Awarded U.S. Navy Anti Submarine Warfare SBIR Contract,” Dr. Kent Bimson, Modus Operandi vice president of research, said:

The objective of this research is to greatly improve anti-submarine warfare commanders’ decision-making capabilities by providing the ability to help operators more rapidly find, filter and fuse mission-specific information from multiple data sources to support focused decisions and intelligent forecasting. The anti-submarine warfare environment is fast-moving, complex and dynamic, requiring split-second life-or-death decisions. This technology, if successful, will provide commanders the most relevant fused knowledge available to support their decision making.

Here at Beyond Search we find it more interesting to learn about real world applications of smart information technology than systems that display laundry lists of results. Answers, not open-scan-close-open-scan-browse methods are needed. It is 2011, not 1980, search engineers. Are you listening? Ping, ping, ping.

Jasmine Ashton, October 20, 2011

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.