Science & Technology Directorate

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March 2014

Dr. David Ebert and Dr. Fred Roberts

CVADA Co-Directors

Washington, D.C.

Science & Technology

Directorate

Center of Excellence for Visualization

and Data Analytics (CVADA)

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Presenter’s Name June 17, 2003

CVADA Overview

COE Description

 Need: With the rapidly increasing amounts and diversity of data, the homeland security enterprise (HSE) needs to be able to deal with heterogeneous information in tailored, easy-to-understand forms to support real-time analysis and decision-making with Big Data.

 Mission Statement: Explore and implement new science and technology to identify, analyze, and understand massive amounts of complex and dynamic information; disseminate, share, and secure such information in support of real-time decision-making by the HSE.

Co-Leads

 Purdue University – Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments (VACCINE):

Interactive big data analytics and visualization; visual analytics; information-driven & risk-based decision making environments for planning, detection, response, & recovery  Rutgers University – Command, Control and

Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA): Detect early signs of threats, both natural or deliberate; track relevant information during and after an event; expose hidden data to support decision making; and perform post-event data analysis to improve understanding of causes and improve future mitigation efforts.

History and Funding

 Established in 2009 (incorporates some prior year work under RVACS and IDS-UACs)

 CVADA has received the following funds through OUP vehicles:

 $13.4M in base financial assistance funding from OUP

 $12.9M in financial assistance funding from other sources (S&T only)

 $0.5M in contract funding under the Basic Ordering Agreement

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CCICADA Research Overview

Research Theme Areas  Work with DHS Agencies:

 USCG Data Problems

 Data-driven Resource Allocation  Law Enforcement Inspections

 Intelligence Analysis of Open Source Data  Large-scale Modeling (Arctic)

 USCIS Volumes Projection

 Unaccompanied Alien Children System Analysis  SAFETY Act Best Practices (incl.: metrics

development, evaluation, randomization)  Nuclear Detection Algorithms

 Work with the HSE and the Private Sector:

 Prevention of Human Trafficking and Migrant Worker Interdiction

 Post-SuperStorm Sandy Analysis and Planning  Disease Events

 Large Venue Protection – SAFETY Act Best Practices and Analyses of Stadium Security Procedures

 Virtual Training

 Crowd Simulation and Traffic Analyses (Port Authority of NY-NJ)

 Cyber Security

 Analytics for Early Detection of Cyber Attacks  Detecting Cyber Threats

 Privacy and Security for Text Mining  Cyber Security Education

 Cyber Attack Detection

Expected Uses

 Multiple and project specific (e.g., the optimal allocation of boat and aircraft assets; multi-agency system

enhancements in the movement and placement of Unaccompanied Alien Children; quantifiable metrics for stadium security strategies)

Customers

 USCG  USCIS  OSAI  DNDO  CBP  ICE-ERO  US DHHS  FBI

 NJ Attorney General  CDC  Red Cross  Sports Venues  Port Authority of NY-NJ  NJ Office of Homeland Security & Preparedness  National Information Security Authority – NISA (Israel)

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CCICADA End-to-End – USCG Data Problems

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End Users/Partners Deployed

 Fisheries Enforcement: De-OPTTIDE and RIPTIDE (software analysis tools)

 BAM I (optimization program) – PENDING USCG V V & A process.

In Development

 BAM II: in final testing

 ACCAM: target date of May 1, 2014 Description

 Data-driven Resource Allocation - - Boat Allocation (BAM I & BAM II) and Aircraft Allocation (ACCAM)

 Assist USCG with resource allocation through development of optimization and simulation tools.  Boat Allocation Module (BAM I): assign boats to boat

stations to minimize “unmet mission hours”

 Boat Allocation Model (BAM II): extension of BAM I modeling to include boat sharing options.

 Aircraft Capability & Capacity Assignment Module (ACCAM): optimize assignment of aircraft across all air stations.

 USCG use of Social Media

 Law Enforcement Inspections (fisheries law enforcement and other applications & generalizations)

 Improving Intelligence Analysis of Open Source Data  Dynamic Large-scale Arctic Modeling

Impact & Relevance

 BAM I: USCG estimates savings of ~$120M over 20 years

 BAM II: Key concept – fractional solutions; precise formulation of sharing problem

 Fisheries Law Enforcement: Led to new fundamental tools in optimization of boarding strategies and notion of “batch selection of targets”

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CCICADA Education Overview

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Professional Development

 HSE Professionals attending continuing education or graduate education programming: 6

 Tuskegee: Masters Program in Information Systems and Security Management - Fall 2014

 Professional development events and training programs delivered:

 “Reconnect” one-week summer programs engage 25-30 faculty in primarily undergraduate institutions countrywide in homeland security topics, e.g., privacy, game theory, and forensics. Includes faculty from military academies. Hosted this year at Mass Maritime Academy.

Description Goals:

 Rapid transition of research into education  Evolving timely content

 Model curriculum and materials that are widely disseminated and are of enduring value

 Leverage of synergistic activities  Tools for the workforce of the future CCICADA programs:

 Reconnect; Research Experiences for

Undergraduates (REU); Modules; Workshops, Tutorials; Virtual Training; Internships; MSI Teams

Collaborations/Partners

 Adjunct faculty from government or industry working with students and other mentorship arrangements:

 AT&T Research, Terra-go Technologies, Bell Labs, Applied Communications Sciences

 Other experiential student education:  Internships at partner companies

 Field research at partner locations, e.g., stadiums/arenas

Workforce Development

 Courses developed: Privacy, Preserving Technologies Textual Extraction; Game Theory and Homeland

Security; Cryptography; Optimal Learning; Visual Analytics of Massive Graphs; The Internet and Information Environment

 Research areas of COE-supported students:  Unaccompanied Alien Children; Text analysis;

Disease Events; Privacy; Resource Allocation; Cyber Security

 Student fellowships offered: ~3 annually

 Type of COE-supported students: undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs

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CCICADA Education – Reconnect

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 Impact on college faculty and professionals and their students is extensive.

 Accomplishments include:

 Modules developed for use in classrooms by 30,000 or more students

 Research begun by faculty and students leading to papers, etc.

 Understanding of mission and needs of DHS Description

 The Reconnect Program is a week-long summer program for faculty and HSE professionals across the country on topics related to homeland security.

Goals

 Engage faculty and HSE Professionals in current research in a topic important for homeland security  Foster the development of modules on the topic that

they can use with their own students in classes on their campuses

 Actively recruit MSI faculty participation – successful every year.

Educational Capabilities & Opportunities

 Very good at providing courses for faculty at institutions nationally, who in turn develop courses and research programs for their own students; develop materials in the form of modules and books to be used in these courses and others; mentor undergraduates in research related to homeland security.

Potential Program Opportunities:

 For the future, CCICADA can develop online short courses for DHS audiences in areas such as Privacy, Information Sharing, Forensics, Game Theory, SAFETY Act Best Practices, Social Networks, Operations Research, and Resource Allocation.

 These short courses can be carried cheaply through Pearson’s e-College arrangement with Rutgers University or as webinars. The online courses can be online for extended periods, webinars occur on a one-time basis. Dr. Cozzens, CCICADA Education and Outreach Director, has extensive experience with the development and delivery of online courses.

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CCICADA Research and Education Successes

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Accomplishment

Impact/End Users

Office of SAFETY Act

Implementation – Best Practices for Stadium Security: Best Practices Resource Guide

 End-to-end engagement with the sponsor

 Cooperation and collaboration from many stakeholders (all major sports leagues, venues) has led to further engagement and interaction

 Included in policy discussions with major sports leagues such as the NFL, NBA, major college, etc.

 Multidisciplinary approach: Bringing together the varied expertise from different COEs  Has led to continued work including partnering with MetLife Stadium, Barclays Center, LA

Coliseum (USC), Rutgers University, Cleveland Indians, Special Olympics Prevention of Human Trafficking

and Illegal Migrant Worker Interdiction

 Ongoing work harvested over 1.4 million ads from 66 markets nationwide; continuing effort.  Completed collaboration on face recognition with outside partner.

 Working with internal FBI software team toward deployment of system mid-2014.  Leveraged data harvested in FBI-funded project toward Super Bowl 2014 in NJ.

Constructed new access interface to assist users to track movement of subjects toward NJ. CCICADA MSI engagement across

multiple educational initiatives has brought benefits to many students in their academic careers

REU students from MSI institutions now in Ph.D. program: 13, two of which are completing Ph.D. this year

Some examples:

 Howard graduate Bassidy Dembele is now on faculty at Grambling State  Howard graduate Shari Wiley is now on faculty at Hampton University  Diane Render earns Ph.D. in Materials Science May 2014 from Tuskegee  Nakeya Williams from Morgan State is Ph.D. student at NC State

 Ashley Crump from Howard is a Ph.D. student at Princeton  Abdoulaye Bakayoko from Howard is a graduate student at UNC

 Helene Nguewou from Morgan State is a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins Reconnect applications have

doubled this year and had increased each year of the program. Courses and books have come out of this program.

 125 faculty have participated in 5 years, 75 modules have been developed, and one book.  Secondary effect is over 100,000 students impacted.

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VACCINE Research Overview

Research Theme Areas

 Predictive and Risk-based Decision Making and Resource Allocation for Law Enforcement and Public Safety

 Integrate and improve public safety’s analysis of data  Promote improved operations in the law enforcement,

fire, emergency management and EMS fields  Operations and Analysis Visual Analytics Tools:

Tactical and Strategic Decision Making

 Enable more effective risk-based decision making at the operational, tactical, and strategic levels for asset

allocation/ reallocation, policies, mission tradeoffs, and risk-return decisions

Expected Uses

 In-field analysis of gang graffiti and tattoos for improved policing (GARI)

 Improved situational assessment by law enforcement incorporating social media in-field and at desk (VALET, Scatterblogs)

 Improved intelligence analysis, social media fusion, asset and resource management, hazmat operations and investigations (Jigsaw, GARI, MERGE, VALET)

 Improved resource allocation, budgeting, planning and response effectiveness (cgSARVA/COAST) across various missions (e.g., 11 USCG missions)

Customers

 USCG: HQ, LANT, D9, D1, D5, D8  TSA (Cleveland – Hopkins)

 Police: West Lafayette, IN; Lafayette, IN; Purdue University; Indianapolis Metropolitan; New York City; Cook County Sheriff, IL; Illinois State Police; Ohio State Highway Patrol; Indiana State Police; Harrisburg Police  USCIS

 CBP

 Boy Scouts of America  FEMA and Miami-Dade EOC

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VACCINE End to End –Visual Analytics:

Operational Effectiveness COAST and GARI

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End Users/Partners

Deployed

 COAST: USCG HQ 7-71 ( COAST); USCG LANT (operational analysis, ORAM, iOPAR); USCG D9, D5 (cgSARVA/COAST); USCG RDC (VV&A)

 GARI: INGangNetwork; Cook County Sheriff Dept; Ind.PD

In Development

 COAST: USCG PAC – iOPAR; USCG all districts – cgSARVA/COAST

 GARI: FBI CJIS

Description  COAST

 An interactive tool to explore and analyze spatial and temporal patterns of historical cases and project into the future for all 11 USCG missions

 Explore/analyze reallocation of resources, different risk measures, cost of operations, efficiency metrics

 GARI - Gang Graffiti Automatic Recognition and Interpretation

 Identifies and tracks gang activity in communities by imaging graffiti

 Handheld access to graffiti images/locations helps officers track gang affiliation, growth, membership and activity even if they are not gang experts

Impact & Relevance  COAST:

 Hurricane Sandy and Irene resource reallocation and station rebuilding prioritization based on COAST  Analyzed impact of CG Aux on SAR mission

 Is used for resource allocation planning for all districts  Used for swimming death issue and response

 Used to analyze SAR initiation/outcome for D5  Extending to all missions and inland waterways  GARI:

 Deployed to Indiana Gang Intelligence Network

 Helps identify active gangs, movements, youths at risk  Extended to include a tattoo app and database

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“…COAST supported quantifying Superstorm Sandy impacts along the New York/New Jersey shoreline, and assisting with surge resource pooling during contingency operations,” VADM

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VACCINE Education Overview

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Professional Development

 Professionals attending continuing education or

graduate education programming:

 MSI Faculty Training  Ivy Tech guest lectures

 Annual Meeting Police Training

 Professional development events and training programs

delivered:

 Webinars with USCG to train on Scatterblogs

 Webinars with law enforcement agencies to train on Valet Description

Goals:

 Provide a universal understanding of Visual Analytics and propagate the knowledge base

 Graduate Programs:

 Visual Analytics Curriculum: Online educational resource  Visual Analytics Certificate Programs

 HS-STEM fellowship program  Undergraduate Programs:

 SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship): undergraduate students spend summer at Purdue learning about research in the VACCINE lab

 Morgan State Student Training: MSU students visit Purdue to learn about visual analytics for two weeks each summer  Faculty Programs:

 MSI Summer Training Program: Faculty from MSIs are invited to a rotating MSI every summer to learn about the field of Visual Analytics in a two day workshop

Collaborations/Partners

 Adjunct faculty from government or industry working with

students and other mentorship arrangements:

 HS STEM Student Intern with Indiana State Police Partners  Other experiential student education:

 HS STEM gradates have gone on to HS government jobs such as DOD Cyber Crime, CDC.

 HS STEM Students won grant to fund a community outreach, A Day of Homeland Security Exploration.

Workforce Development

 Certificates or degree programs offered:

 Simon Frasier University (SFU) & Virginia Tech (VT) offers certificate in Visual Analytics and/or Cyber Security

 Courses developed:

 Intro to Visual Analytics (VT)  Visually Enabled Reasoning (SFU)

 Data Visualization (Florida International University - FIU)  Research areas of COE-supported students:

 Visual Analytics  Statistics

 Cognitive Science  Computer Science  Psychology

 Student fellowships offered:  9 HS STEM Fellows

 Type of COE-supported students:  Undergraduates and Graduate students

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VACCINE

Education –

MSI Faculty Training

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 Summer of 2013 was the pilot program

 Following this cohort to see if they incorporate visual analytics into their research or course instruction. Survey was provided after fall semester, and will be after spring semester as well to determine incorporation of visual analytics.

 Planning on conducting the training again this summer and incorporating feedback – extending the training by a day and rotating to Morgan State University as opposed to Jackson State University where it was held last summer.

Description

 MSI Summer Faculty Training Goals

 Gather faculty from MSIs to participate in a 2-3 day workshop in order to gain an understanding of what Visual Analytics is and how it can be applied to a variety of research questions.

 MSIs traditionally focus more on education than research, this is a way to appeal to both and multiply researchers and teachers using visual analytics. Teaching the Teachers

Educational Capabilities & Opportunities

 Creating a repository of visual analytics courses and materials to provide additional information to students, faculty, and professionals alike. Not only will courses at various institutions be listed, but course content and information will also be available as a resource for those interested.

 Developing online video trainings for any tools and resources produced by VACCINE. We currently have most of these created, but have not been updated to our website.

 VACCINE has been in close contact with Ivy Tech Community College to incorporate Visual Analytics into their

Criminology coursework. As an initial procedure, VACCINE staff and students have been providing guest lectures in a number of courses. We have proposed to lecture five times in the fall and gradually incorporate our tools as a method of explaining some of the strengths of Visual Analytics.

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VACCINE Research and Education Successes

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Accomplishment

Impact/End Users

GARI – Gang Graffiti Recognition Tool

GARI has been successfully transition to the INGang network in Indianapolis Indiana. The tool has now been distributed to a number of users and is being actively used throughout the state.

Morgan State University

Undergraduate Summer Program

For two weeks in the summer, a handful of undergraduates from Morgan State University visit the VACCINE lab to learn about the field of visual analytics and how it can be applied to their individual questions and majors.

MSI Summer Faculty Training Conducted training with MSI faculty members last June. Currently following the cohort and surveying the group to see if they retain knowledge and incorporate VA into their own courses.

Scatterblogs Social Media Analysis tool which successfully alerted the Boy Scouts of America at their Jamboree or various events or activities which required their attention.

VALET Valet is currently being tested and used with a number of law enforcement

agencies, the largest of which is the NYPD, and the smallest the Purdue University Police Department. Additionally, a corporation that manufactures record

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CCICADA Partners

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Extended Partner Network

Non-University Partners: Applied Communication Systems; TerraGo (Geosemble) Technologies; AT&T Labs, Research; Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs; National Football League; Major League Baseball; other Major Sports Leagues; various stadium operators; NJ Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness

University Partners: Howard University*; Morgan State University*; Texas Southern University*; Tuskegee University*; City College of NY*; Princeton University; University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Rutgers University Medical School; CREATE; START; NTSCOE; CSR; NCFPD; FAZD, NCBSI.

*Indicates MSI

Principal Partners

Areas of Expertise/Core Capabilities

Rutgers, the University of New Jersey Information-driven modeling and simulation, decision support,

multidisciplinary outreach, graph theory, discrete mathematics, machine learning, privacy, resource allocation, educational programs

University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute

Information networks, information access, information integration across Media.

Carnegie Mellon University - Language Technologies Institute

Information networks, information access, information integration across Media, cyber-security, social media.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Natural language processing, information integration across media, information distillation, information rating (trust), cyber-security, social media.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Information mining/large scale analysis, large graphs, communication networks, resource allocation, social media.

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CCICADA Student Placements

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Placements

Internships

Jobs

DHS Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce

US Coast Guard

Office of SAFETY Act Implementation Project (at CCICADA)

CCICADA (Post-doctoral Associate)

Federal Government Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory

National Security Agency

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pacific Northwest National

Sandia National Laboratories

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Army Research Lab

State and Local Government West Orange High School

Industry Applied Communication Sciences Bell Labs

AT&T Labs Verizon

ImClone Systems

Geico Insurance Co. Credit Suisse Group Roche Molecular Systems Global Market Research Novartis

Insurance Service Office

Private Sector Climate Central (non-profit)

Peer Health Exchange C1 Consulting

Intuidex, Inc.

Academia Princeton University

Rutgers Medical School Hampton University Grambling University

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Maryland

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CCICADA – Research Areas

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Research Area

Approaches

Expected Uses

Customers

COE Partners

Research Area 1: Information-driven Modeling and Simulation  Lexicographic Models  Multi-objective Programming  Algorithm Development  Discrete Event Simulation  Web-based Simulation  Layered defense  Uncertainty quantification  Resource allocation  Planning  Mitigation strategies  Inspection procedures (ports/containers, stadium security, transportation)  USCG  US CBP  TSA  FEMA  Local Offices of Emergency Management  City Government  Mall Security  Stadium Security  NYC OEM  City of Indianapolis CCICADA  Rutgers  RPI Other COE  CREATE  NTSCOE HSE  PA NY/NJ OEM  NJ OHSP  NFL security  USCG  FICO

(see also customers)

Research Area 2:

Information-driven Decision Making

 New data driven risk analysis tools  Pattern analysis,

anomaly detection  Cooperative game

theory

 Analysis of large and diverse emergency related data  Geospatial representation  Expert judgment integration  Emergency monitoring and preparation  Flood mitigation strategies  Transportation corridor risk analysis  Mission prioritization  Biosurveillance

 Data analytic challenges in pre-response,

response, recovery and mitigation

 Trustworthiness of data  Information visualization

and management  Handheld capabilities

(for first responders)

 FEMA  USCG  TSA  CDC  NYC OEM  NJ State Police  NJ DHSS  First responders CCICADA  Rutgers  RPI

 Applied Comm. Systems  USC/ISI  CMU  UIUC  Geosemble  Howard Univ.  Morgan State U.

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Research Area

Approaches

Expected Uses

Customers

COE Partners

Research Area 3:

Information Networks; Information-based Emergency Preparednesss

 Analysis of social media and other internet based communication formats (unstructured, diverse data)

 Data harvest and synthesis

 Topic modeling  Pattern, anomaly

detection

 Content and photo recognition  Law enforcement  Human trafficking  Emergency response  Data capture  Situational awareness  Alerts and warnings  Trustworthiness  FEMA  USCG  FBI  DHS First Responders Group  Twitter CCICADA  Rutgers  UCS/ISI  CMU  UIUC  RPI Other COE  CREATE  FAZD HSE

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CCICADA Highlights

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Accomplishment

Impact

The Boat Allocation Module (BAM I & II) is one module developed under the COAST framework. The USCG CG-771 approached CCICADA to jointly build a BAM model or analysis tool that would match the capability and mission hour

requirements of each boat station to the available resources and assets.

BAM project aims to create a mathematical model that can produce “good” assignments of boats, or “resources,” across the USCG boat stations so that station mission hour

requirements, or “demands,” are met (or almost met) BAM II expands the results by looking at shared assets.

Development of information-driven modeling and simulation tools to aid USCG in resource allocation problems related to its coastal mission areas of responsibility

Promise of extensive cost savings.

SAFETY Act Best Practices: task completion (ongoing project)

Development of stadium/arena security and counter-terrorism best practices for SAFETY Act applicants and OSAI application evaluation.

Office of SAFETY Act Implementation (with general application industry wide – NFL, NCAA, NHL, MLS, MLB, NBA, USTA, NASCAR, IndyCar, minor leagues)

Identified best practices through an extensive literature review, interviews with a broad range of industry expertise, on-site

observations of venue security practices and the Workshop: Best Practices for Stadium Security.

NFL Stadium Security Procedures:

NFL (via MetLife and other Stadiums) seeks assistance in determining the best options for patron screening.

MetLife Stadium (with general application industry wide) Have presented screening analyses to MetLife security and management – impact on MetLife and NFL policies. Has led to interaction with the Office of SAFETY Act Implementation. In conversation with other partners.

USCG Fisheries Law Enforcement: targeted risk- based

approach to fisheries law enforcement.

Tools for USCG decision making about fisheries law enforcement with impact on efficiency of operations in fisheries law

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Accomplishment

Impact

Urban Commerce and Security Study (UCASS): engagement

with a broad range of HSE agencies: Port Authority NY/NJ OEM, NYC OEM, NJ OHSP, Stadium Security, City of Indianapolis.

A decision support tool to aid in strategic planners in how to take into account the impact of security initiatives on economic activity. Intriguing potential applications to mall security, Coast Guard decision making concerning port operations, stadium security

Fusion Center: evaluation methodology for DHS Office of

Intelligence and Analysis

Tools for improving performance of local and regional fusion centers through information analysis, management, and sharing

Human Trafficking: Data extraction and analysis Real assistance to the HSE in the address of horrific crimes with the LAPD, FBI, NJ Attorney General, Departments of State and Justice and the United Nations.

FEMA: Flood Mitigation on the Raritan River, Climate Change, Data

generated before, during and after Emergencies

New hydrological modeling tools and new data-driven tools for analyzing risk reduction of flood mitigation strategies; analysis of the entire spectrum of FEMA data problems

CBP: asked CCICADA to extend its earlier port operations

modeling to model their new offsite container inspection process for Port Newark-Elizabeth.

Models confirm cost-savings and throughput efficiencies

Biosurveillance: (find faster and more accurate anomaly detection

to give early warning of a disease event): Tool: Entropy-based Disease Surveillance

Results indicate our tool finds anomalies earlier, with more

accuracy, without as much historical baseline data than traditional methods such as CuSum. Attracted interest of two different offices within CDC. Led to an internship at CDC for grad student fellow. Results also shared with FAZD.

Unaccompanied Alien Children: (in progress): Model

development and analyses in four areas: bed availability; charter flight utilization; intake/transition center cost/benefit and push-pull factors on participant volume.

Working with stakeholders with varying mission emphasis across several agencies within two Cabinet level departments. Potential to inform policy and operations.

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VACCINE Partners

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Extended Partner Network

University Partners: Florida International University*; University of Houston – Downtown*; Morgan State University*; California State University*; Dominguez Hills*; Navajo Technical College*; Jackson State University*; University of Texas, Austin; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Simon Fraser University, Canada; University of British Columbia, Canada; Oxford University, UK; Swansea University, UK; Stuttgart University, Germany; Stanford University; University of Washington; Tennessee State University; Middlesex University, UK; Dalhousie University, Canada;

University of Manitoba, Canada; University of Victoria, Canada; Indiana University; University of Calgary, Canada; Carleton University; Justice Institute of British Columbia, Canada; Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

•Indicates MSI

Principal Partners

Areas of Expertise/Core Capabilities

Purdue University Visualization of Structured, Unstructured and Streaming Data; Scalable Filtering and Dissemination; Video and Image Processing; Mobile, Lightweight Information

Analytics; Public Safety Operations; Undergraduate/Graduate Education; Professional Training

Georgia Institute of Technology Information Visualization; Visual Analytics; Peripheral Awareness; Undergraduate/Graduate Education;

Pennsylvania State University Spatial cognition; Geo-information Representation, Spatial Analysis, Cartography; Undergraduate/Graduate Education; Professional Training

University of NC-Charlotte 3D Multimodal Interaction; Bioinformatics Visualization; Virtual Environments; Visual Reasoning; Interactive Visualization of Large-scale Information Spaces;

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VACCINE Student Placements

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Placements

Internships

Jobs

DHS 0 0

Federal Government 10 3

State and Local Government ₂ ₁

Industry ₂₀ ₃₆

Private Sector 2 5

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Research Area

Approaches

Expected Uses

Customers

COE Partners

1. Predictive and Risk-based Decision Making and Resource Allocation for Law Enforcement and Public Safety

 Integrate and improve public safety’s analysis of data

 Promote improved operations in the law enforcement, fire, emergency

management & EMS fields

 Large-scale field tests on

technologies including VALET, TRIP, iVALET, Jigsaw, MERGE and GARI.  Uses include intelligence analysis,

social media fusion, asset and resource management, hazmat operations and investigations.

 Law Enforcement, Fire, Emergency Management  TSA Rail Inspectors  Community Watch

 Purdue, GaTech, Penn St., Navajo Tech, FIU, UCSD, UBC

 Seed Proposals to be considered from current and extended partners that meet objectives of this E2E project.

2. Operations and Analysis Visual Analytics Tools: Tactical and Strategic Decision Making

 Phase I will be the extension and adaption of cgSARVA to meet the needs of the USCG at the tactical and

strategic level, including their proposed COAST.

 To inform senior CG leaders’

decisions regarding asset capabilities, acquisitions, and allocations; unit locations; policies and concepts of operations; and mission tradeoffs.  COAST is intended to measure the

operational effectiveness of all 11 Coast Guard missions.

 USCG Headquarters and District Operations and Planning Personnel  D1, D5, D9, LANT, PAC  Purdue, UW  Seed Proposals to be considered from current and extended partners that meet objectives of this E2E project.

3. TSA Business Operations Visual Analytics

 Analysis, assessment and visualization of TSA databases across airport environments

 Phase I of this project is providing TSA with an understanding of the business, employee, customer, and law enforcement efficiencies and inefficiencies across their airport environment and their linkages

 TSA Ohio and HQ

 Purdue, GaTech, Penn St.

 Seed proposals to be considered from current and extended partners that meet objectives of this E2E project.

4. Visual Analytics for Security Applications (VASA): Cascading critical infrastructure visual analysis environment  Exploring computer networks/power grid/social media , food distribution/

transportation/ power grid/social media

 Power companies, network companies, restaurants

 Deliverables: Simulation software and visual decision making environment

 IMPACT: Improved consequence evaluation and plan of action decisions  Quick Service Restaurants  Partners: German Universities, Siemens, Duke Energy, NCFPD

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VACCINE Highlights

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Accomplishment

Impact

cgSARVA/COAST deployment – Used operationally to justify where SAR

assets should/shouldn’t be redeployed during Hurricane Sandy and for prioritization of rebuilding of 14 damaged Coast Guard Stations.

LANT was able to assess and determine minimal redeployment necessary in NY/NJ based on cgSARVA analysis.

USCG HQ using cgSARVA for operational metrics driving optimization of cost/return of rebuilding each station damaged by Sandy

cgSARVA deployment – Analysis of Great Lakes swimmer death’s

provided USCG information to develop a public information campaign prior to summer 2011 season.

cgSARVA helped reduce the loss of life in the Great Lakes region from 164 in 2010 to 104 in 2011. This 36% decrease helped the USCG achieve key goals in their Great Lakes Maritime Strategy.

Scatterblogs - Provides real time indication of social media topics and

anomaly detection. Used with the Boy Scout Jamboree during the Summer of 2013. Currently being tested with the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the USCG

BSA was able to investigate reports (via social media) of a sniper, which was incorrect. Additionally, severe weather and health concerns were monitored.

Symbol Store – The symbol store was launched this past year, and is now

available online – www.symbolstore.org

Most DHS mission areas used separate in-house symbol sets for internal standards. With the e-Symbology Portal, a web-based environment where topics can be polled and discussed by remote participants asynchronously, those standards are collaboratively refined. Pairing this refinement process with the Symbol Store service allows users to seamlessly organize their symbols, and upload them for others to find and use for their own projects.

GARI (Gang Automatic Recognition and Interpretation) - Deployed to

more than 65 police officers and prosecutors from 17 jurisdictions including Indianapolis Gang Task Force., and Indianapolis State Police INGANG Network

GARI allows street officers to identify and track gang activity in their communities via mobile phones. Repository of gang images is growing rapidly allowing continued development of GARI.

Morgan State Educational Initiative – Morgan State has started a Visual

Analytics Program development for MSIs and continues to send students to Purdue during summers

Based on the information gained at VACCINE, Morgan State students conducted workshops for Baltimore teachers to teach them how visual analytic technologies could be implemented in their classrooms as part of the school curriculum.

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