SICAS – Siemens Intelligence Collection and Assessment System

The fight against terrorism and protection against espionage: intelligence services receive data from the widest variety of sources around the clock. An immeasurable quantity of data. This flood of information is like the proverbial haystack, in which the needle is hidden that has to be found in order to ward off potential threats. One of the most elaborate, but at the same time elementary tasks of intelligence services is therefore to separate relevant information from irrelevant information. Only then can they draw the correct conclusions in order to react appropriately.

Finding the needle in the haystack
SICAS is the integration platform that finds the needle in the haystack. This extremely versatile and effective tool supports all central intelligence service activities: it collects information from the widest variety of origins, bundles it, assesses it according to predefined criteria, removes unimportant data – and, in defined reports, automatically summarizes precisely the information that the intelligence service analysis teams need in order to be able to make well-founded decisions.

SICAS...

…	collects information from the widest variety of sensors, databases and every imaginable data source (SIGINT, MASINT, IMINT, OSINT, HUMINT, geographical information systems)
…	identifies all information and checks its relevance
…	removes irrelevant information and retrieves the data that could be of any interest at all and which should therefore be further examined with the aid of human intelligence
…	connects data from different sources and indicates correlations
…	sets off an alarm immediately if certain criteria are fulfilled, hence informing the analysis teams of circumstances that require immediate intervention
…	creates automatic reports in which information is prepared in such a way that the analysis teams only need to supplement it with their interpretation