Lockheed Martin launches Contrail tech

CHERRY HILL, N.J., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. company Lockheed Martin announced the launch of a new computing technology to offer the intelligence market a more efficient method of data analysis.

Lockheed Martin announced the development of its new Contrail technology. Company officials say Contrail is a computing framework that helps the intelligence community review and file large streams of data so that analysts can return to, or "rediscover," critical information months after the information was first analyzed.

Contrail also enables a more effective method of sharing across the intelligence community's computing infrastructure.

"Rediscovery is just a portion of the technology's capability," Mark Hoffman, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories technology manager, said in a statement.

"By capturing analysts' trails of discovery and reasoning, as well as the items they encountered along the way, our technology can re-find old information, find and share new information, and provide an audit trail for items like capturing lessons learned."