Modeling Adversarial Activity (MAA)

Abstract

The Modeling Adversarial Activity (MAA) program is developing technologies for generating high-confidence indications and warnings for weapons of mass terror (WMT) activities. WMT pathways consist of networks or links among individuals, groups, organizations, and other entities that act to promote or enable the development, procurement, possession, transportation, or proliferation of WMTs and related capabilities. Monitoring and controlling WMT pathways is essential to denying access to WMT technology, knowledge, materials, expertise, and weapons. MAA will create graph models reflecting prototypical WMT pathways, develop methods for creating merged activity graphs by aligning entities across multiple intelligence modalities, develop algorithms to match empirical activity graphs with pathway models, and create synthetic data sets at scale to support development and testing of WMT activity detection techniques. MAA technology development is being coordinated with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Document Details

Document Type
Accomplishment
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
d5376beaefd98cdfd2e032fb4cbe66a1

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security

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