Detecting Patterns of Life and Anomalous Results (POLAR) in Big Graphs Navy SBIR FY2014.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2014.1 Topic No.: N141-075 Topic Title: Detecting Patterns of Life and Anomalous Results (POLAR) in Big Graphs Proposal No.: N141-075-0067 Firm: Charles River Analytics Inc. 625 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-4555 Contact: Brian Ruttenberg Phone: (617) 491-3474 Web Site: www.cra.com Abstract: Sailors and Marines are responsible for conducting missions such as maritime security operations, embassy protection, non-combatant evacuation, and disaster relief. To plan missions effectively, Warfighters need to understand normal patterns of life (POL) and anomalies in those patterns. Analyzing this data within the context of a graph representation supports understanding of how relationships among entities and concepts contribute to normal and anomalous patterns. Merging heterogeneous relational data from multiple sources results in large graphs that require new, scalable analysis methods. To address this challenge, we propose to design and demonstrate an approach for detecting Patterns of Life and Anomalous Results (POLAR) in big graphs. The focus of our effort is to design scalable patterns of life calculations that consider rich details about entities and their relationships. First, we will employ an innovative variation of data preprocessing to reduce graph dimensionality while simultaneously making it easier for analysis techniques to identify patterns of life. Second, to detect patterns of life in the graph, we will represent POLs as labeled sub-graphs of the aggregated graph. We will also augment POL extraction with anomaly detection so operational users can determine when POLs in an area are diverging from expected behavior. Benefits: We envision immediate benefit of our POLAR system for applications in non-kinetic operations (e.g., information operations) by supporting situational awareness of patterns of life and anomalous activity. Charles River Analytics is already interacting with relevant Marine organizations, providing software to Warfighters under an existing program of record. The work under POLAR will enhance that software and be our primary transition path. In addition, Charles River plans to transition specific scalable analytic capabilities of POLAR to our ConnectT software suite to increase its commercial validity. Return