Black Cape wins DoD Data Analytic Competition

April 04, 2023

Black Cape was recently awarded first place out of 220 teams participating in an international data analytics challenge sponsored by the US Department of Defense.

In December of 2022, the US Department of Defense's Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD), formerly known as Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) initiated a data analytics challenge titled "Revolutionizing Data Ingestion and Curation for Intelligence Analysis." The competition was jointly sponsored by the Government of Singapore and attracted a wide range of technical solutions submitted by more than 200 teams spanning 40 countries worldwide.

Black Cape received first-place for our innovative data processing system "Octane." The Octane system automates data ingestion and curation of numerous real-world data types using Natural Language Processing (NLP), Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and a variety of other AI/ML methods, unifying the resulting information into a structured knowledge graph for deeper analysis.