The Challenges of Countering Terrorist Networks - CDE themed call launch 19 Mar 2013

The Challenges of Countering
Terrorist Networks

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Agenda
10:30 Introduction to CDE
10:45 Counter Terrorism Science & Technology Centre overview
10:55 Military context
11:25 Challenge 1 – understanding networks
11:40 Challenge 2 – identifying individuals
11:55 Q&A
12:05 Networking with lunch
13:00 Challenge 3 – translating information
13:15 Call summary
13:20 Ethics
13:25 CDE – submitting a successful proposal
13:35 Q&A
13:45 Networking with refreshments
15:15 Event close

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Agenda
10:30 Introduction to CDE
10:45 Counter Terrorism Science & Technology Centre overview
10:55 Military context
11:25 Challenge 1 – understanding networks
11:40 Challenge 2 – identifying individuals
11:55 Q&A
12:05 Networking lunch
13:00 Challenge 3 – translating information
13:15 Call summary
13:20 Ethics
13:25 CDE – submitting a successful proposal
13:35 Q&A
13:45 Networking
15:15 Event close

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The Challenges of Countering Terrorist
Networks

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Countering terrorist networks

Harnessing and developing science
and technology (S&T) to increase
defence and security capability to
pursue and disrupt threats to UK

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Today’s CDE call S&T challenges

Challenge 2:
Identifying
Individuals

Challenge 3:
Translating
Information

Challenge 1:
Understanding the
Network

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The Challenges of Countering Terrorist
Networks

Military Context

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References

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Terminology
ISR = Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

ISTAR = Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance

C4ISR = Command Control , Computers, Communications and ISR

E2E3 = End to End Enterprise

MPE = Materiel and Personnel Exploitation

FABINT = Forensic and Biometric Intelligence

DOCEX/DOMEX = Document Exploitation/Document and Media Exploitation
SIGINT = Signals Intelligence

OSINT = Open Source Intelligence

WTI = Weapons Technical Intelligence

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Future Character of Conflict: 5Cs
Contested

Connected Constrained

Cluttered Congested

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The Future Battlespace
 Contested
 Competition for resources. All geographies of operation are contested
 Sea, land, air & space, cyberspace and information
 Congested
 To influence people we have to operate in, over and close to where they
live. People live in urban areas in the littoral
 There is no empty battlefield
 Cluttered
 Network Enabled Capability will not fully lift the fog of war
 We need to understand and to discriminate
 Connected
 Networks - source of strength for friend and foe
 Nodes are also a source of weakness
 Constrained
 Legal and social norms - essential to our legitimacy -
will limit us but not our adversaries

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Constrained

Future Character of Conflict
Contested

COMPLEX

Connected Constrained CONTINGENCY
COALITION
URBAN
Cluttered Congested

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Understanding

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Understanding
“Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Understanding is not putting it in a fruit salad.” JDP 04

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Afghanistan

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CONTINGENCY

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Change in intelligence focus

Cold War
Equipment Hierarchies

Contingency
People Activities/Relationships

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Change in intelligence focus

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Size, Weight and Power = SWaP

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Communications

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Constraint and oversight

Legal Ethical

Moral Political

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SCENARIOS

Maritime Boarding Operation

Insurgent Compound Assault

Non-combatant Evacuation
Operation (NEO)

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Maritime boarding operation

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Compound assault
Compound Assault

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Compound assault
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Compound assault

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Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO)

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NEO

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Summary
Future Character of Conflict: 5Cs

ISR focus: People and activities

Understanding: Requires lots of information

Legal, ethical, moral, political constraints

Military are open to novel, smart alternatives

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Challenge 1: Understanding
Networks

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Not just people: organisations, locations, events, vehicles,
phones, computers…….

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Background
• MOD may have a need to support multiple operations at any one time, including
working with coalition partners and local security forces.

• There is a requirement to build up an understanding of the networks of people
and supporting infrastructure.

• There is a need to mine all the available information to identify individuals and
groups who are interested in countering defence and security activity.

• Operations may be data rich or data sparse, with information being fed from a
number of sources, with varying degrees of confidence.

• Requirement to fuse sources to build up network picture.

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S&T challenges
Sources: Open source; MOD; OGDs; Local military/security; Coalition partners

Formats: Audio, Video, Text, Tabular, Imagery, STRUCTURED & UNSTRUCTURED

Data quality Automated data diagnosis
Data complexity Complexity estimation
Volume Extraction of structured content
Uncertainty Metadata tagging
Timeliness Conversion to common format

FLEXIBLE EXTRACT, TRANSFORMATION, AND LOADING

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S&T challenges
INFORMATION Common Interface ANALYTICS/PROCESSING
REPOSITORIES

Automation of common tasks
Flexible and scalable data Machine-led pattern finding (eg
storage anomaly detection)
Integration with traditional data Automated prediction and
structures validation
Enhanced collaborative
mechanisms

AUGMENTATION OF ANALYTICAL WORKFLOW

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What we want
Fix one part of the challenge well, rather than several parts poorly

Open architectures

Use of open-source software is encouraged

State what data types and functions your proposal will consider (be clear)

Scalability of algorithms/solutions – will it handle “big data”

Simple interfaces encouraged to reduce training burden

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What we don’t want

Reliance on existing proprietary solutions or closed APIs

Enterprise-level solutions

Avoid reliance on third-party services

Avoid focussing on simple aspects of challenges:
•Entity extraction
•Extraction of common file formats (eg HTML)

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Summary
Effective methods to explore the potentially large volume of data
available from a variety of sources, across a range of data formats to
help identify the key activities and individuals that form any network.

• Information fusion • Scalable

• Open architectures • Handling uncertainty

• Ease of use

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Challenge 2: Identifying
Individuals

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Background

• People are a key part of networks and network
activities.
• This challenge is focused on identifying the individuals
and exploiting available information to establish
linkages.
• Wide range of scenarios across defence and security
where potential for S&T in this area can have impact
on future UK capability.

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Approaches to identifying an individual

?

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The overarching challenge

• Techniques exist to enable identification of
individuals and to exploit finds.
• S&T to:
– provide a significant step change in current approaches
– provide a novel approach
• This challenge is split into two key areas:
– A. Person is present
– B. Person is not present

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A. The person is present

• Range of scenarios
– Voluntary enrolment of a person in the field
– Entry into a base
– On approach to military forces
– Through activity

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A. The person is present

• Range of scenarios
• As the person is present
– Uncontaminated samples
– Rapid processing
– Range of environments
– Ideally portable with low power (SWaP)
– Although present person maybe at distance

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B. The person is not present
• Opportunities to exploit from traces or items left behind
at a scene

? Scene of
interest

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B. The person is not present

• Biometrics
• Range of surfaces – time
• Contamination
• Environmental conditions
• Other opportunities from the scene
• Imagery, voice recordings, others?
• Robust and adaptable to maximise opportunities
• Add value to identify the individual(s) and/or
establish linkages across the network

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What are we looking for? General

• New methods and approaches
• Efficient collection of information
• Wider information sources
• Open architecture for software solutions
• Sampling
• Processing rates
• Defence Lines of Development (DLODs)
• Interoperability and use of international standards

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What are we looking for? In the field

• Remote use of equipment
– Degrees of man portability
– Lower power requirements
• Ability to use in a range of environments
• Approaches to consider lower bandwidth data links
• Fast or very fast processing to support decision
making
• Efficient and effective sampling and storage

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What are we looking for? Static location

• External power supply
• Access to on-site servers

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• Standard law enforcement techniques or
commercially available techniques for:
• Detection of fingerprints
• Face recognition
• Iris recognition
• DNA or its analysis
• Speaker recognition

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Summary
We need to be able to confirm the identity of individuals
reliably with a step change in current capability or using
novel approaches

• Range of use scenarios • SWaP

• Timeliness of sampling and • Interoperability
processing

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Challenge 3: Translating
Information

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Background
• MOD is active in a number of military operations globally, often in a CT role.

• Majority of UK troops not fluent in local written or spoken language for area of
operation.

• Too much information to manually process.

• Human translators support high accuracy but low volume translations.

• Requirement for capability to better enable MOD’s understanding of local
environment and population (feeds Challenge 1).

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S&T challenges

Video Audio
Hard copy Digital

Speaker attribution
(eg dialect, emotion)
Keyword extraction

Speech to text

Optical Character
Recognition
Speaker ID
Machine translation Challenge 1
(to English)

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What we want
Optical Character Recognition Speech to text
Portable/small solutions (tablet sized) Multiple languages (including non-
Rapid processing western)
Non-Latin text support Preference for untrained solutions
Handwritten text Resilience to background noise
Use of open standards Scalable to large volumes of data

Machine translation/Keyword extraction Speaker ID/Attribution
Open software interfaces to enable Resilience to noise
addition of classified keywords High accuracy
High volume processing Minimal training (seconds)
Rule-based machine translation Near real-time processing

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Speech to text
Optical Character Recognition
English language solutions
Latin alphabet OCR
Closed interfaces/proprietary solutions
Office-based solutions (non-portable)
Reliance on third-party services
Closed APIs which are difficult to
Low volume/higher accuracy
integrate

Speaker ID/Attribution
Machine translation/Keyword extraction
Reliance on third-party services (eg
Reliance on third-party services
existing proprietary language models)
Bilingual text corpora built from news
Proposals requiring significant
feeds or open sources (BBCM)
Government Furnished Extras (GFX)
Western languages

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Summary
We need to be able to rapidly prioritise sources of information (audio,
paper and electronic) to enable human interpreters to focus only on key
information sources for full translation.

• Modular solutions • Non-western language focus

• High volume and real-time • Open architectures
focus

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CDE Call Summary

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Aim of this CDE call
• Identify innovative research that will provide a change in our ability
to counter terrorist networks

• Broad scope

Proof of
Initial Concept
concept for a
investigation development
novel idea

More
Prototype
advanced
development
research

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For non-technology solutions the delta should be articulated
Technology readiness levels
programme
Research

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TRL for proposals

TRL 1-6 • Only interested in proposals that have an end point from TRL 1- 6

• Proof-of-principle research feeding into the longer-term research
A portfolio of projects • TRL 4-5 work that could make a difference in the near term

• Show a defined rise in TRL within the 6-month proposal
TRL change • Further increases in TRL outside the 6-month timescale could be
an option within the proposal

• Please clearly articulate the technical aspects of the proposal and
Technical aspects show how you expect the research to raise the TRL

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Proposal timings

CDE launch Decision point
event Call
closes:
Successful
17.00
candidates informed

Proposal Potential
further research
Assessment
Up to 6 months x months

19 Mar 1 May Before 31 May

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Proposals
• We are looking for proposals of up to 6 months in duration.
– This timing will inform programme formulation for the following financial year.
– This may provide the opportunity for follow-on work after the initial 6 months phase.
Therefore after a clearly defined decision point at 6 months please state possible
continuation work (subject to funding and possible alternate contracting routes).

• There is no fixed value for any proposal but we would prefer to fund a larger
number of smaller value proposals. We have allocated up to £700K for this call.

• If GFX (government-furnished equipment/information/personnel) is unavoidable,
please clearly state any assumptions in the proposal.

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What are we looking for?
Duration less than 6 months • Longer proposals will not be funded

•In the view of experienced assessors (achievable
Value for money and achievable within the proposed time frames and budgets)

A step change in capability • Not “off the shelf”

• Rather than funding development of existing
Open architectures proprietary technology/software

• Rather than duplication of already existing
Novel ideas technology/ideas

Clear articulation of technical details and • Expected outcome and the methods to achieve
output this

Explain how the proposal answers the • Please state clearly how this answers part/parts of
challenge the challenges

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• For further questions on the proposal requirements or technical details
please contact us via:

ctcenquiries@dstl.gov.uk

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Ethics
• Some of the proposals may require Ethics Approval
– Any research involving human participants in MOD research, both clinical and non-
clinical requires ethics committee approval

Clinical

• Conduct research upon the human participant, including (but not limited to) administering
substances, taking blood or urine samples, removing biological tissue, radiological investigations,
or obtaining responses to an imposed stress or experimental situation.

Non-Clinical

• Conduct research to collect data on an identifiable individual’s behaviour, either directly or
indirectly (such as by questionnaire or observation).

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Ethics
• All proposals should declare if there are potential ethical hurdles to address
• A proposal must, in the first instance, be scientifically robust in order for it to be,
prima facie, ethical
• If the proposal may require ethics approval, please make a three part proposal:
– Milestone 1: Produce research protocols
– Milestone 2: Obtaining ethics approval for the project
– Milestone 3: Proposed research (subject to ethics approval)

• More information
– http://www.science.mod.uk/engagement/modrec/modrec.aspx

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Innovative Future
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Proof of
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MOD Performance Assessment Framework

Five criteria:
Operational relevance
Likelihood of exploitation
Builds critical S&T capability to meet UK
needs
Scientific quality/innovation
Science, innovation and technology risk

Proposal health check


Contribution to future benefit

Health check
Based on a claim of future benefit
Contribution to realisation of future benefit
Logical programme of work
Evidential outcomes
Demonstration of progress towards goal

Government-furnished X

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Deadline
This call closes:
17:00 hrs on
Wednesday 1 May 2013

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