Military wants to scan communications to find internal threats

CNN
October 28, 2010

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The Pentagon wants computers to see into the future — and stop crimes before they happen.

As the U.S Army considers whether Maj. Nidal Hasan, the suspect in last year’s Fort Hood massacre, should face a court-martial, it also is looking at whether the military missed signals that might have indicated what was about to happen.

Now a Pentagon research arm is asking scientists to create a way to scan billions of e-mails to identify suspects in advance so that crimes can be stopped before they are committed.

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That’s the goal of the latest $35 million project announced by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is credited with breakthroughs like the internet, GPS and stealth technology.

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This article was posted: Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 1:01 pm

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