Natural Language Processing (NLP) has advanced significantly since 2018, when ULMFiT and Google’s release of the BERT language model approached human-level performance on a range of use cases. Since then, several models, such as XLM, GPT-2, XLNet, and ALBERT, have been released in quick succession, each improving on its predecessors. While these state-of-the-art models can solve human-level, language-based tasks on large volumes of unstructured text for certain use cases, getting a handle on what to use, when to use it, and how to use it can be a challenge. At Novetta, we explored what it would take to streamline the…
SPEAKING SESSION at Cyber Endeavour 2019
Advancing US and NATO Interests Against Russian Aggression Cyber Endeavour is an annual Department of Defense-sponsored conference that brings together military and civilian practitioners from across government, industry, and academia to address the nexus of cyberspace and national security. Cyber Endeavour has expanded to address the implications of National Security relative to operations in the information environment. Cyber Endeavour is an interactive, working-level event for leaders and operators to discuss the most critical challenges in the information environment facing our nation and armed services, and to identify potential solutions. This two-part event consists of a Leadership Symposium and Cyber-X Games….
Novetta Acquires Berico Technologies
Aligns for Growth and Expands Cloud Engineering Capabilities McLean, VA – November 13, 2018 – Novetta, a leader in advanced analytics technology, today announced the acquisition of Berico Technologies, based in Reston, VA. Novetta’s acquisition of Berico is rooted in the alignment of mission, capabilities, and customers. Founded in 2006, Berico delivers innovative, technology-enabled cloud engineering, data analytics, and IT modernization solutions to customers in the Intelligence Community (IC). Berico customers include the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). For more than two decades, Novetta has developed disruptive technologies delivering actionable insights…
2018 NATO Information and Communicators’ Conference (NICC)
Each year, the NATO military structure hosts the NATO Information and Communicators’ Conference (NICC). This year’s conference will be held from 17 to 21 September 2018 in Rome, Italy. The theme of this year’s conference is Information Environment Assessment (lEA). The NICC is a five-day event, devoted to working groups of the communication disciplines, plenary sessions, and workshops. Attend our speaking session: Thursday, September 20, 2018 0900 Central European Time Room 2B Attendees will learn how to use a data-driven analytic framework to identify entity-centric patterns of behavior and uncover actionable intelligence. We will provide a use case utilizing this…
Accelerating OSINT Analytics through AWS Machine Learning Services & AWS Neptune
by Matt Johannessen Novetta’s business covers a diverse mix of public and private sector customers. While mission objectives vary, we are seeing an increasing need to extract meaning from high-velocity open source (OSINT) information. Historically, deriving intelligence from open source digital content has been complex and time consuming, particularly when high-accuracy results are required. Generating meaningful signals from data sources such as web content and open source video has required substantial labor on the part of analysts. We are working to significantly reduce the effort required to gather and exploit OSINT through a combination of machine learning, graph database technologies,…
Novetta Mission Analytics Migrates to the Cloud Improving Speed and Efficiency for DaaS Federal Customers
MCLEAN, VA – Novetta, a leader in advanced analytics technology, today announced the migration of its information exploitation platform, Novetta Mission Analytics, to be fully deployable as a cloud-based service. Novetta Mission Analytics is optimized to normalize, process, and resolve multiple data streams in real time to support mission requirements across the information domain. “It’s about flexibility for analysts to rapidly extract pattern-based analysis from multiple information streams and to perform analytics augmentation in real time,” says Bryan Rich, SVP of Open Source Intelligence Technology at Novetta. “By moving data analytics to the cloud with the integration of machine learning and…
A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Model Apprehensions Along the Southwest Border Using Open Source Data
The Southwest Border is a complex environment for the federal law enforcement personnel tasked with apprehending persons attempting to enter the US between legal ports of entry (POE). In this multi-part blog series we’ll explain how a team[1] from Novetta used modern Bayesian inference to model factors influencing the numbers of apprehended immigrants attempting entry.[2] In particular, we will demonstrate the utility of this approach in unpacking the forces that influence border crossing attempts between POEs. The posts will address: The problem: We’ll describe the environment and the phenomenon often referred to as “illegal immigration” or “undocumented entry” along the US…
