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New Tool Identifies Non-Productive Phone Numbers

SUMMARY

A new tool helps weed out phone numbers that are tasked for collection but provide no intelligence value, based on reports showing how much of each phone number’s traffic has been reviewed, deemed relevant, and reported on. The idea is to avoid needlessly “consuming precious SIGINT resources.” The tool is part of a larger project called “RAINMAN” to automatically prioritize traffic scanned by language analysts.

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Jan 03, 2005

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Mar 12, 2018