MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. company Alion Science and Technology has been contracted to evaluate new technology to collect and analyze human intelligence information.
The contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Agency is worth $4.5 million.
The company said the technology is designed to enable troops to improve how they record and analyze information obtained while on patrol.
Under the contract, Alion will provide performance evaluations on the Graph Understanding and Analysis for Rapid Detection -- Deployed On the Ground (Guard Dog) program, by helping ensure the technology is adequate and can be successfully taken into the field to assist counterinsurgency, counter-terrorism and counternarcotics missions.
Guard Dog leverages recent advances in graph-theoretic analysis techniques, database technology and hardware technology to improve how personnel on patrol process and use information derived from these interviews and field observations.
"Guard Dog technology will produce an operationally effective enhancement to the interview process," said Dick Brooks, Alion senior vice president and manager of the Distributed Simulation Group. "It is designed to give troops the real-time assessments of their surroundings that they need -- quickly.
"To make sure this improved technology achieves that goal, Alion will construct research models and develop a variety of testing methods to rapidly detect issues in technology approaches and algorithms."
