Identification of Adversarial Activities: Profiling Latent Uses of Facilities from Structural Data and Real-time Intelligence; Conference paper

摘要

Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) provides critical support for military planning and decision making. In both offensive and defensive operations, the IPB process gives a decision maker information about the enemy, including potential courses of action, as well as information about the environment in which he is working. Physical structures that can support repetitive crimes (such as IED supply chains or illegal drug trafficking) provide important information for C2 planning. Activities of interest must be situated somewhere, and the physical structures present in any given location change slowly. Knowledge of those structures and their capabilities therefore provide an effective lens through which to view activities, and therefore an effective means for attacking the problem. In this paper we discuss the Facility Identification via Networks with Adaptive Links (FINAL) technology that Aptima is developing to find facilities associated with adversarial actions and discover the intent for their use. Based on algorithms that perform probabilistic network pattern identification from partial knowledge about network nodes, links, and their attributes, FINAL profiles the use of facilities by combining networks of data describing actual conditions and more abstract network models of repetitive crimes.