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Surveillance, Collection, and Operations Support (SCOS)
Mission: Identify, prioritize, and execute research and development projects that satisfy interagency requirements supporting intelligence gathering and special operations directed against terrorist activities.
Focus Area Product Catalogs
SCOS focus areas reflect the prioritized requirements of the Intelligence Community.
Most SCOS programs are classified or highly sensitive. Program requirements, the success of programs, and the specific capabilities of these programs cannot be shared publicly; however, the details of products that are appropriate for public notice will be posted in the focus area.
Traditional Surveillance
Improve the quality of intelligence collection. Develop and advance capabilities for the collection and enhancement of video, imagery, and audio surveillance.
Analytical Surveillance
Improve automated tools for terrorist identification using biometrics, pattern recognition, speech and speaker recognition, and information retrieval from multiple sources.
Information Operations Support
Develop and improve tools to degrade, disrupt, deny, or destroy both analog and digital adversary and information systems.
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Develop and improve the capability to locate, identify, and track terrorist activities. Support programs and initiatives critical to intelligence operations, such as tagging, tracking, and locating; special sensors; and clandestine communications.
Human Language Technologies
Respond to emerging needs for advanced language solutions in the operational environment including data exploitation and analysis of information in languages other than English and technology to enhance language proficiency and cultural skills. Develop new approaches to triage multisource, multigenre, and multilingual data in order to increase actionable intelligence at all levels of operational mission.