>>> The Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC) has obtained information relating to proposed projects funded by the Information Awareness Office (IAO), the Poindexter group that runs Total Information Awareness (TIA). The OIA put out a call for research projects that would help it in its efforts to collect and pool massive amounts on info and keep tabs on everyone in the US in real-time. Numerous contractors responded.

Thanks to EPIC's Freedom of Information Act request, we can see the letters sent by the IAO (and signed by Poindexter) to everyone who proposed a project. The letters contain the name of the project, the person who proposed it, that person's institutional affiliation, and whether the proposal was accepted or rejected. Unfortunately, the letters offer no further information on the projects, many of which have intriguing names.

Below is a list of the 26 proposals that were accepted. In the next day or two, The Memory Hole will post a similar list of the many more proposals that were rejected (watch this page).

Acrobat files of the declassified IAO letters are available here

Adaptive Filtering, Routing and Expertise Location for Two Media: Text and Imagery
Ms. Rebecca Anderson
Colorado State University
Fort Collins CO

Agent-assisted, Context-based, Collaboration across Information Spaces (AXIS)
Mr. Juan Gutierrez
JSX Corporation
Camarillo CA

Assured Transition and Transformation
Ms. Gwen Skanse
Booz Allen Hamilton
Falls Church VA

Asymmetric Threat Analysis
Mr. Thad A. Brown
Institute for Physical Sciences
Mclean VA

AUDITT: Automated Detection, Identification, and Tracking of Deceptive Terrorist Activity
Dr. Darrin Taylor
21st Century Technologies, Inc.
Austin TX

Awareness-Enabled Coordination
Mr. Craig N. Moen
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Chevy Chase MD

Confronting Surprise: Robust Adaptive Planning for Effective Total Information Awareness
Dr. Steven W. Popper
Evolving Logic
Topanga CA

Developing C.A.S.T.-Enabled Terrorism Indicators
Mr. Charles Parnell
The Fund for Peace
Washington DC

Development and Integration of Synthetic Environment Technologies that Support Battle Reconstruction (PO2-ASC-019)
Ms. Deborah McKenna
Lockheed Martin Information Systems
Burlington MA

Extensible Probabilistic Repository Technology (XPRT)
Ms. Tina M Bavota
ALPHATECH, Inc.
Burlington, MA 01083

Group Aware Agents for Collaboration: Empowering the Agile Enterprise
Ms. Dannie Michael
Global InfoTek, Inc.
Reston VA

Human Augmentation of Reasoning through Pattering (HARP)
Ms. Stella Yates
Veridian Systems Division
Arlington VA 22209

Information Awareness Prototype System Development
Ms. Michelle Tavares
Hicks & Assoc. Inc.
Arlington VA

JIST: Just-In-caSe just-in-Time Intelligence Analysis
Mr. Lourdes Creus
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA

Knowledge-based Tracking of Content Change in Growing Collections of Text Documents
Mr. Eric Steffensen
Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto CA

National Collaborative Environment (NCE) Prototyping Architecture
Major (R) Victor Ramos
Raytheon
Reston VA

NEMESIS: NEtwork Modeling Environment for Structural Intervention Strategies
Christopher E. Brouady
Aptima, Inc.
Woburn MA

New Representations for Dynamic Force Properties for Use in Collaborative 3-D Battlespace Displays
Mr. William Wright
Oculus Info, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario

Novel Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Exploitation of Massive, Nonphysical Data
Ms. Sharrett Hererra
AlgoTek, Inc.
Arlington VA

POLESTAR: Policy Formation and Explanation Using Stories and Arguments
Ms. Lisa DeMaio
ALPHATECH, Inc.
Burlington MA

Project Anaconda
Ms. Carole M Troia
The Analysis Group, LLC
Falls Church VA

Protecting Privacy of Individuals in Terrorist Tracking Applications
Mr. Bruce Karnacki
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Incorporated
Palo Alto CA

Services and Applications in Support of Collaborative Evidential Reasoning
Mr. Florentino B. Pilar Jr.
Science Applications International Corporation
Arlington VA

Stochastic Optimization Model for the Tracking and Disruption of Terrorist Operations
Mr. Joseph McDermott
Meltron, Inc.
Reston VA

Terrorism Knowledge Base
Ms. Mary Shepherd
Cycorp, Inc.
Austin TX

Threat-based Adaptive Red Teaming and Experimentation
Ms. Michelle Tavares
Hicks & Assoc. Inc.
Arlington VA

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