Sentient (intelligence analysis system)
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Sentient is an automated (artificial intelligence) intelligence analysis system developed and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) of the United States federal government.[1][2][3][4] A principle purpose of the Sentient system is described by the NRO as compiling at machine, versus human speed, synthesis of complex distributed data sources for rapid analysis faster than humans can manage.[5]
Official NRO documents from 2012, declassified in 2019, describe it as "an on-going Research and Development (R&D) program, which is managed and operates out of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)".[4] NRO documents detail the Sentient program was in some form of initial development from 2013 through 2016.[6] Another NRO document also released in 2019 detailed that stakeholders involved in Sentient include the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.[7]
The program architecture was developed to demonstrate advanced technologies and techniques to revolutionize the current Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) cycle across the Intelligence Community (IC).[4] The Sentient methodology represents a fully integrated intelligence approach consisting of three fundamentals: problem-centric intelligence multi-INT end-to-end and trusted machine automation.[3] Sentient utilizes "tipping and queueing", described as a method to coordinate multiple discrete sensor systems to optimize real-time monitoring over large areas from multiple systems; coordinating in effect multiple satellites to hand off and coordinate tracking of targets as the target leaves the area of one set of satellites and enters new areas.[8][9]