Number: RL31786
Title: Total Information Awareness Programs: Funding, Composition, and Oversight Issues
Authors: Amy Belasco, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: By integrating various new tools designed to detect, anticipate, train for, and provide warnings about potential terrorist attacks, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hopes to develop a prototype Total Information Awareness (TIA) system. This system would integrate a number of ongoing R&D efforts, referred to in this report as Total Information Awareness programs. While concern has centered primarily on privacy issues, accounts of the programs funding have also differed. This report covers the funding, composition, oversight, and technical feasibility of TIA programs.
Pages: 19
Date: Updated March 21, 2003