TITLE: Telecommunications Linking System

TECHNOLOGY AREAS: Intelligence Analysis and Gathering

OBJECTIVE: Provide analysis tools, report generator, and automated case de-confliction/case collaboration notification to the end users (case agents).

DESCRIPTION: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses a system to store information regarding known suspects (suspects identification and phone numbers called) and associates phone calls made by these suspects to other phone numbers (links). The goal is to improve the linking capability and the user interface for an existing database. The focus of this topic area is to provide a network tool to:

• Access all Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) mainframe databases where telephone information, both structured and unstructured, is entered;
• Automatically identify a minimum of fourth order linkages between telephone information (i.e., telephone #1 associated with #2 associated with #3 associated with #4)
• Provide automated notification to the end users (case agents) of potential case deconfliction and case collaboration (i.e., telephone numbers from different cases intersect);
• Provide method of weighting linkages;
• Provide textual and graphical interfaces for identifying linkages between telephone information;
• Provide a means for end users to associate or disassociate telephone information (link / de-link);
• Provide functionality to allow end users to export records, reports, charts and graphs;
• Allow storage and retrieval of known voice samples associated with other telephone information to facilitate the identification of voices encountered during investigations;

PHASE I: As a minimum, Phase I will include a requirements identification / assessment report, initial architecture development, user interface mock-up, initial software development, and a risk assessment of ability of software to perform multiple linkages.

PHASE II: A working prototype will be provided no later than halfway through the Phase I1 period for assessment against realistic (or real) databases. Success criteria will be developed by contractor and approved by Government prior to initiation of this assessment.

PHASE III COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: While this effort is specifically being assessed for ICE uses, linking of structured and unstructured data is applicable to security organizations (e.g., background checks) and financial organizations (e.g., credit checks).

KEY WORDS: Associative processing; data management; data reduction; data storage systems; linking systems; graphical user interface