FBI select Convera for investigative data warehouse

Convera have announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation have selected Convera’s RetrievalWare as a search and categorization platform within the Agency’s new Investigative Data Warehouse.
The initial value of the deployment of Convera’s software is approximately $1.5 million.
After the events of September 11, the FBI created a sophisticated Secure Collaborative Operational Prototype Environment (SCOPE) with a counter-terrorism and intelligence data repository. RetrievalWare was selected by the FBI for the repository to improve the sharing of intelligence information and collaboration across multiple government agencies, enhancing the government's ability to prevent terrorist attacks. RetrievalWare will work with other tools to help FBI analysts identify critical pieces of intelligence within the massive information repository that they use to drive investigative and intelligence activities. Specific RetrievalWare capabilities required by the FBI for the project include extensive security options, real-time message profiling, breadth of language support, multimedia search, scalability and powerful new dynamic classification capabilities.
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