Intelligence assessment
Evaluation of sensitive state
Follow Intelligence assessment on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
We include updates on Donald Trump's disclosures of classified information, Knowledge representation and reasoning, The Institute of World Politics, Futures techniques, Universal Core, Essential elements of information, Charles Hamilton Mitchell, Tip and cue, Knowledge Aided Retrieval in Activity Context, Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, Patterns of Global Terrorism, Terrorist Surveillance Program, Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, Terrorism Early Warning Groups, John Nicholas Brown Chair of Counterterrorism, National Centre for Counter Terrorism ... and more.
| April 2024 |
Sentient
At the 39th Space Symposium, NRO's principal deputy director Troy Meink discussed plans to diversify satellite fleet, increase satellite assets in unique orbits, and expand AI-based data ingestion using Sentient-type systems and ground systems.
|
| June 2022 |
Sentient
NRO declassified and released two redacted reports on Sentient activities related to a UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) sighting of a 'tic tac' shape, revealing the program's involvement with the Department of Defense's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.
|
| June 2022 |
Sentient
The National Reconnaissance Office declassified and released two redacted reports on Sentient's activities related to tracking and researching unidentified aerial phenomena, including a sighting of a 'tic tac' shaped object.
|
| 2021 |
Sentient
United States Army Captain Anjanay Kumar proposed that Sentient would be a potential target in a hypothetical conflict between the United States and China over Taiwan.
|
| 2021 |
Sentient
NRO emails disclose the involvement of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) with the Sentient program, which later transitioned to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
|
| 2019 |
Sentient
NRO documents from 2012 describing the Sentient program are declassified.
|
| 2017 |
Sentient
Robert Cardillo, former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, described Sentient as a joint research and development effort with NRO to experiment with automated data processing and intelligence inference.
|
| 2016 |
Sentient
Betty J. Sapp discussed the application of cubesat systems for NRO work, which were tested as part of the Sentient program.
|
| 2016 |
Sentient
The Rand Corporation summarized a major benefit of the Sentient system, highlighting its potential to allow intelligence analysts to focus on strategic analysis while automation handles data collection details.
|
| 2015 |
Sentient
Sentient and National Overhead Systems Future Ground Architecture program had an annual budget of $238,000,000, with Air Force colonel Thomas Nix serving as the technical lead and Operations Branch Chief.
|
| 2014 |
Sentient
First public disclosure of Sentient as a full program occurs in the United States Naval Research Laboratory's NRL Review.
|
| 2013 |
Sentient
Sentient program entered initial development phase at the National Reconnaissance Office.
|
| 2013 |
Sentient
At the GEOINT Symposium, Betty J. Sapp discussed Sentient's potential to make the National Reconnaissance Office more responsive and predictive in aiming spaceborne assets.
|
| 2013 |
Sentient
Sentient program enters initial development phase, with NRO documents indicating ongoing R&D efforts.
|
| 2012 |
Sentient
Official NRO documents describe Sentient as an ongoing Research and Development (R&D) program managed by the National Reconnaissance Office.
|
| 2010 |
Sentient
Continued development and documentation of the Sentient program by the National Reconnaissance Office and its Advanced Systems and Technology Directorate.
|
| 2010 |
Sentient
The NRO publicly requests information (RFI) for white papers on Sentient, focusing on user interaction technology, computing self-awareness, cognitive processing, and automated system processing.
|
| 2010 |
Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System
While serving in Iraq, Chelsea Manning accessed JWICS and SIPRNET to leak hundreds of thousands of secret US intelligence documents to WikiLeaks, including 'Collateral Murder', 'The Iraqi War Logs', 'The Afghan War Diary', and 'Cablegate'. This was the largest data leak in US military history at the time, involving over 700,000 files.
|
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Intelligence failure, Sentient (intelligence analysis system) & Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.