Knowledge Management / Information Sharing involves the effective collection, analysis and sharing of data and information to support informed decision making. It includes areas ranging from data mining, expert systems, information clustering, and social networking, to record management activities such as document digitization and access-controlled on-line data record access systems.

• Key Staff Members:
  • Thomas McGibbon, who is the Director of the Cyber Security & Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSIAC), David Nicholls, who is the Operations Manager for the DoD Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC), and Aaron Riesbeck, who is the developer of the Army’s Product Reliability On-line Tools Collection (PROTOCOL) knowledgebase and the leader of the company’s document management programs.
• Example Projects:
  • DoD Technical Centers of Excellence: Quanterion currently operates two important DoD Information Analysis Centers (IACs) for the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). The charters for these two centers include the collection, analysis and dissemination of scientific and technical information (STI) in subjects important to military systems:
    • Cyber Security & Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSIAC): Quanterion is the prime contractor for the CSIAC, a DOD “center of excellence” in the software engineering, information assurance, modeling & simulation and knowledge management technical disciplines. Among the IACs, the CSIAC is the leader in evolving its operations to a “community of practice (CoP)” model. The CoP technical community, as a whole, is a resource for CSIAC customers and users to share and gain knowledge through various discussion and learning activities. Among its CoP successes is the development of a “Software Development Tools and Technology Information Clearinghouse (SDTATIC)” repository, where the “community” can identify and comment on tools available for developing high quality software.
    • Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC): Under subcontract, Quanterion performs the day-to-day RIAC operations, resulting in the most effective information and data dissemination (sharing) program among the IACs. Knowledge is effectively analyzed and “packaged” in formats most effective for customer use, such as the recently released “Web Accessible Repository of Physics-Based Models (WARP)”, providing more than one hundred models that can be used to improve inherent design robustness.
  • Product Reliability On-Line Tools Collection (PROTOCOL): is an on-line reliability knowledge base developed for the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) that includes expert system features for decision-making, automated analysis tools, interactive tutorials and traditional knowledge content in the form of definitions, rules-of-thumb and lessons-learned.
  • MINE: was a research initiative under the RIAC contract to develop tools to harvest reliability failure data from the Internet. Under this initiative, we developed Atlatl, a tool using intelligent, rule-based approaches to identify clusters of reliability data. The reliability data was harvested using advanced data recognition techniques from public manufacturer websites. Atlatl identifies web page structure; identifies differences in font sizes, colors, background colors; and tags the position, using this information to determine and rank the relevance of the data.