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BY Dibya Sarkar -- Published on Aug. 20, 2004 --

Federal officials want to create an unclassified reference guide with information on commercial off-the-shelf data-mining and analysis software for first responders.

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston recently issued a request for information about software applications that collect, warehouse, clean, normalize, mine, visualize, manipulate and model stand-alone, networked and Web-based information.

"Information received will be reviewed and utilized for the development of a user-ready reference with sufficient insight into the capabilities and limitations of various applications, tools and technologies," the RFI states.

Sponsored by Office for Domestic Preparedness, the guide will be available to all federal, state and local agencies, allowing users to select the software that best meet their needs.

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