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Quantitative Assessment of Influence Operations

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8650-06-M-6706
Agency Tracking Number: F061-037-2694
Amount: $99,998.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF06-037
Solicitation Number: 2006.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2006
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-04-19
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-02-19
Small Business Information
Tempest Technologies, 8939 South Sepulveda Blvd, S
Los Angeles, CA 90045
United States
DUNS: 036255409
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Yun Wang
 Vice President
 (310) 216-1677
 wang@tempest-tech.com
Business Contact
 Ben Fitzpatrick
Title: President
Phone: (310) 216-1677
Email: fitzpatrick@tempest-tech.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The complex nature of warfare today requires a much greater emphasis on influence operations and other non-traditional means of forwarding our objectives. The war on terrorism is not a traditional war in which pitched armies conduct frontal assaults or massive airstrikes precede ground invasions. The success of the global war on terror depends intimately on various types of covert and non-covert “marketing” activities in which we “sell” our goals to important players in target populations. A major challenge is in understanding just how much impact these influence operations have. We propose the development of cutting-edge mathematical and statistical algorithms for quantifying the effects of influence operations.

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