Special Program Announcement for the Office of Naval Research Reserach Opportunity: Text Analytics for Data to Decisions (D2D)

The primary purpose of the Data-to-Decision (D2D) Program is to develop a capability to rapidly develop, evaluate, and field prototype Decision Support Systems. Today's warfighter has access to text-based information from a wider range and greater number of sources than ever before. The influx of information can potentially improve warfighters' situation understanding and decision-making. However, it is clear that there has been, and will be no, increase in the number of warfighters to process and interpret the growing volume of available data. The practical implication of this is that the DoD has access to more data than it can process to achieve actionable information in support of diverse military information needs. It is imperative that we create, harvest and exploit technologies that will help realize the potential for improved decision-making without imposing a need for increased warfighter numbers or their workload. On behalf of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering (ASD (R&E)), the Office of Naval Research (ONR)) is interested in receiving white papers for the Data to Decision Program. The program has three (3) primary thrust areas, (1) contextual understanding, 2) event prediction, and 3) machine translation and processing.