One of America’s Spy Agencies Will Test Sentiment Analysis to Help Sniff Out Insider Threats

‘If the one-year pilot program is successful, a ‘full and open competition’ could follow to broaden the software’s use inside the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
A spy agency plans to identify people within the organization likely to abuse their access privileges by analyzing pieces of text.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is investing in “sentiment analysis” technology, which generally works by parsing text and categorizing its author’s sentiment as positive, negative or neutral. NGA intends to sole-source an award for a 1-year pilot to WT Government Services, which sells such a system called SCOUT Tool.’
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