Northrop Grumman Corporation: THREADS

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Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30 billion global defense and technology company whose 122,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide. THREADS is a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) application.

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[edit] Customer Information

Customer: Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems
Project: THREADS
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Territory: Government
Industry Verticals:
- Intelligence Community
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Application Domain: Intelligence fusion and visualization.
Market Characterization:
- Metadata and Knowledge Management
- Relationship Hunting
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Current Status:The prototype was eventually used as a base for building related applications. See Northrop Grumman Corporation: ASA
Can we talk about this customer and the product/project? Yes.
Referenceable?: Yes, via the Objectivity representative.

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THREADS is a software prototype based on a proven analytical methodology that is intended to help Counter Terrorist and Force Protection analysts corroborate HUMINT reporting of threats. It does this by fusing National Systems generated data. It helps orchestrate a multi-discipline reaction against those threats, generating Actionable Intelligence that can be used to defeat the planned terrorist or other foe's actions.

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Flexible licensing.

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Performance with complex data.
Time to market.
Flexibility.
Reliability.
Ease of development and maintenance.

[edit] Competitors/Alternatives

The customer asked for a multi-user architecture study that also examined the use of a major RDBMS (Oracle) instead of Objectivity. The performance study resulted in:
- Development of a representative test case and typical THREADS� queries that were executed on both DBMSs.
- An evaluation of configuration strategies, to optimize performance.
- Comparison of query results for the two types of DBMS.
The Objectivity/DB worst case results were better than the RDBMS best case results across the board.
In the most complex tests Objectivity/DB was up to 30x faster than the RDBMS.

[edit] Why They Chose Objectivity

Objectivity/DB met the technical criteria and convincingly outperformed the RDBMS.
Flexible licensing.

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None

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Other: THREADS is mentioned in the Government Applications Webinar.

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Northrop Grumman Corporation

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