Delivering Information and Decision Advantage in the Defense Sector

Executive Summary

• Better Information and Decision Advantage: Dataminr’s AI platform delivers rapid, actionable insights by processing 43TB of global public data daily, enabling faster, more confident decisions.
• Enhanced Situational Awareness: Provides early event detection, multi-modal alerts, and continuous contextual updates, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of evolving situations.
• Seamless Information Sharing: Facilitates interoperability with stakeholders through shareable, unclassified information for coordinated and faster responses.

The speed and quality of decision-making directly impacts force protection, mission success, and national security. As the information age ends and the AI age dawns, the ability to process vast amounts of information and make rapid, informed decisions is paramount.

Military doctrines worldwide recognize the strategic importance of information superiority. The UK defines Information Advantage as “the credible advantage gained through the continuous, adaptive, decisive and resilient employment of information and information systems.” Similarly, the U.S. Air Force describes Decision Advantage as “the product of situational understanding, the ability to assure and exchange information, make and communicate decisions by maintaining advantages in all domains.”

Achieving Information Advantage and Decision Advantage is no longer a strategic goal, but a tactical necessity. This requires new technology, new data, and new ways of working. The disciples of Colonel John Boyd will readily recognize the advantage early observation and orientation confers on decision-making. Nearly half a century later, Decision Advantage in the AI era requires leveraging technology that can filter through global noise to deliver relevant, real-time information.

Delivering Information and Decision Advantage

Dataminr’s AI platform is engineered to meet this challenge. As hard power is asserted in concert across all domains, we deliver enhanced situational awareness, reduced risk, and faster, more confident decision-making. By processing publicly available data from across the globe in real time, our AI platform provides defense organizations with the critical insights needed to outpace adversaries. We equip decision-makers, operators, and analysts with the tools to gain a comprehensive understanding of their operating environment, enabling them to act with speed and precision.

Speed: Accelerating the OODA Loop

Tempo is a critical factor in all operating environments. Dataminr accelerates the decision-making process by facilitating a more complete understanding of a situation faster than adversaries can react. Our AI platform provides the first indications of emerging events, often well before they appear in traditional news sources.

• Early detection: Dataminr delivers the earliest Indicators and Warnings (I&W) of breaking events, approximately five times faster than aggregated news, giving commanders valuable time—or “decision space”—to observe, orient, decide, and act (OODA).
• Real-Time Multi-Modal Fusion AI: We fuse global, regional, and hyper-local  sources and modes of public data across 150+ languages in real time. This allows us to link related data points as an event unfolds to create a clear, coherent and more complete picture at machine speed. This creates instant feedback loops that enrich situational awareness without delay.

Scale: Global, Persistent Awareness

The sheer volume of global publicly available data is overwhelming. The Dataminr AI platform processes over 43 terabytes of public data every 24 hours. To process that volume manually, a defense agency would need approximately 3 million analysts working around the clock 24/7.

We provide a more complete picture of the operating environment through persistent, multi-domain awareness on a global scale.

• Comprehensive coverage: Our platform detects approximately 36 times more events than traditional news outlets, ensuring you see the full breadth of activity, from operational disruptions to major crises.
• Always-on capability: Dataminr offers a global, always-on situational awareness capability that complements existing intelligence workflows. It also operates where and when other platforms cannot, filling critical information gaps in opaque environments.

Relevance: Cutting Through the Noise

In a world saturated with information, relevance is key. Our platform is designed to organize and categorize vast quantities of data and information, removing unwanted noise and delivering actionable information directly to operators and analysts in a usable format that they understand. This reduces cognitive burden, streamlines workflows, and facilitates timely assessment. By establishing Indicators & Warnings tripwires around specific decision criteria, you can free up finite human resources and enable more confident, data-driven decisions and faster response.

Enhancing Situational Awareness

True situational awareness means understanding an event from its inception to its conclusion. Dataminr provides this continuous view, ensuring users are notified when an incident begins and kept informed as it develops.

• Multi-modal alerting: Our alerts incorporate text, images, audio, and video, delivering rich, multi-source context directly within the platform for a fuller understanding of on-the-ground realities.
• Evolving live event briefs: With ReGenAI, event descriptions evolve in real time, providing a succinct and accurate overview as new information becomes available.
• Historical insight: The platform’s historic search function allows analysts to explore historical data, identify trends, and establish baselines, thus delivering insight and facilitating operational planning. This context is invaluable for understanding what “normal” looks like in any strategic, operational and tactical environments.
• From “what?” to “so what?”: Dataminr Intel Agents streamline decision-making by delivering critical, operationally relevant insights directly in-platform, removing the need for external searches and reducing manual effort. They leverage historical data to establish norms, corroborate events across sources, and enhance analytical efforts.

Reducing Risk to Life and Mission

Dataminr provides critical capabilities that directly contribute to risk reduction, both in terms of risk to life and risk to mission.

Supporting Mission Success

Dataminr helps identify threats to operations and secure mission objectives by:

• Filling capability gaps: Our platform fills crucial gaps in areas where traditional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities are degraded or denied, and complements existing real-time event, threat, and risk detection workflows by providing additional source corroboration and enhancing tip and cue processes to direct further investigation.
• Countering hybrid threats: By analyzing public data across multiple domains in real time, Dataminr detects adversarial multi-domain operations early enough to help defense organizations take necessary actions to mitigate risk.
• Faster orientation: We facilitate faster orientation to emergent events, increase awareness outside established battle rhythms, and enable teams to adapt quickly to changing conditions.
• Operational planning: By exploring historic data in specific geographies, planners can better analyze and understand the human and physical terrain to inform operational plans and implement measures to avoid potential threats.

Improving Interoperability with Partners and Allies

Modern operations are rarely conducted in isolation. Success often depends on seamless collaboration with partners and allies. Dataminr facilitates improved interoperability by providing unclassified, publicly available information that is easy to share rapidly across government agencies and international partners. This shared understanding enables joint, combined and coordinated efforts, allowing organizations to operate collectively at a tempo that outpaces and outmaneuvers adversaries.

Gain a Decisive Edge in Modern Defense

In today’s complex and rapidly evolving security environment, the ability to see first, understand first, and act first is of significant advantage. Dataminr provides the speed, scale, and relevance needed to turn information into a decisive edge. By delivering real-time, actionable information, we empower teams and equip leadership with the context they need to navigate any crisis.