Konan Technology Wins Defense Ministry OSINT Platform Project, Expanding Multi-Source Intelligence Integration

Konan Technology said on the 14th that it signed an agreement with the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) on the 8th and won a project for the "open-source information automatic collection and analysis service" under the Defense Ministry's "AI-based rapid commercialization support for application products (AX-Sprint)" program.

The project will run for 17 months from the date the agreement is signed, with a total budget of KRW 2.5 billion, and Konan Technology will begin building an automatic collection and analysis platform for the Defense Ministry's open-source information (OSINT). The target information sources are public sources such as news and websites, and the collection and processing targets are open-source information related to North Korea and overseas defense and security fields.

The platform will feature AI-based collection and analysis functions, multilingual translation, reliability verification, and anomaly detection support. Konan Technology plans to support intelligence analysis work through automated collection and processing and AI analysis, while promoting expanded multi-source intelligence integration.

OSINT is a concept that derives intelligence value by collecting and analyzing public materials such as news, websites, and public reports. As open-source information increases rapidly and the spread of false and manipulated information continues, the importance of analytical capabilities that examine source, context, and reliability simultaneously in the analysis process is growing further.

Konan Technology will apply large-scale data collection and processing, natural language processing, search, and AI analysis technologies to the project. It will also use its online media analysis service, PulseK, and leverage news, SNS, and website collection technologies and multi-source cross-verification technologies secured through its data science business.

In addition, Konan Technology will build a data processing system tailored to the defense environment. The system aims to improve the timeliness and accuracy of information collection by using multilingual open-source original text and translation data, North Korean language and military terminology dictionaries, and training data for person and equipment recognition. It also set as a design objective ensuring traceability of analytical evidence.

The platform links the entire process, from open-source information collection to optical character recognition (OCR), multilingual translation, data cleansing and classification, source and reliability assessment, event clustering, anomaly detection, and analysis report generation. Through this, it aims to help analysts quickly identify information that requires priority review, as well as related incidents and signs of change.

The new structure applies a Human-in-the-Loop setup, in which AI assists analysis and human analysts make the final conclusions. In this structure, AI's role is to set priorities for items to be reviewed and explore relationships between pieces of information, while the analyst remains the final decision-maker.

It seeks to enhance information reliability and traceability by allowing users to check the original source text and references along with the analysis results. The focus is on establishing a verification system for practical use of AI analysis results in defense and security work.

With the OSINT platform project as a catalyst, Konan Technology is expanding the scope of its defense intelligence analysis business. The direction of its technology expansion is a multi-source intelligence integration system that simultaneously analyzes various information assets beyond open-source information, and it plans to unveil a fusion analysis platform for defense intelligence analysts within this year.

The company began its Navy search engine project in 2006. Over the past 20 years, it has carried out more than 100 projects in the defense informatization field, and recently it reorganized its defense strategy division. Its direction for business expansion is specialized AI solutions centered on defense intelligence analysis and defense manufacturing.

Lee Mun-gi, director of Konan Technology's data science division, said the project corresponds to the application of large-scale real-time data collection and processing, language AI, and intelligent analysis technologies to frontline defense intelligence analysis work. He said the goal is to support the rapid identification of key information and signs of change in open-source information.

He added that the launch of this OSINT platform project will serve as a starting point for expanding capabilities into multi-source integrated analysis of diverse information assets and into an analyst-centered decision-support system. He also said the company aims to contribute to faster and more reliable defense intelligence analysis.

Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406891

References

• https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406891