The goal of DataSphere is to provide analysts with a tool to aid in the discovery of unknown terrorism relationships and the identification of previously undetected terrorist and terrorism information.

DataSphere will be able to detect patterns in data that links individuals with events and actions including identifying a set of individuals that fit the parameters described in a threat intelligence report. These results will be complemented with other tools and manual analysis for validation purposes.

As DataSphere’s pattern matching capabilities are developed and tested, National Counterterrorism CenterNCTC will continue to work closely with CLPO, to ensure appropriate privacy and civil liberties protections are taken into account.