The office of the director of national intelligence has launched a new research project to boost the intel community's ability to anticipate everything from political crises to resource shortages by developing new tools that fuse data from a wide range of open sources, including issues trending on Twitter, Internet search engines and the financial markets. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) last week initiated the Open Source Indicators program, publishing a broad agency announcement on Aug. 23 soliciting “innovative...
