This presentation demonstrates how to collect, analyze and exploit open source information to discover nuggets about technology. In this particular case, we analyze the supply chain of the EADS A400M and discover the issues in its production, the financial implications to team members, and discover a website attempting to obfuscate its detailed knowledge on the A400M.

1. An Open Source Analysis of the Airbus A400M Aircraft Solving complex problems…in a manner judged to be truly superior

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4. Automatically Ingests All Source Data

5. Real-time foreign language translation

6. Robust search engine (metadata values)

7. Analyzes structured/unstructured Multi-INT and OSINT data feeds

8. 24x7 collection, indexing and storage of media, video, imagery, text

9. Identifies themes, characterizes relationships and identifies potential actors

11. Intelligence AnalysisAny Media Delivered to the Desktop … How Powerful is the Intelligence Analyst Now?”

12. Contour Challenge Problem We have been tasked to discover what is available on Internet regarding the EADS A400M

13. The Search Approach Over 15,000 Results 5,560 in English 4,500 duplicates About 1,000 good pages Containing Multimedia Data Text, Images, Videos How Can We Analyze this Quickly?

14. The Contour Approach Collection Subsystems Output Asset Index and Store Security video Documents/Reports Electronic Data Store Processing Broadcast TV and Radio Web Interface On Call Services Semantic Processing Video Conversion Entity Extraction Text and Video Web pages Text Docs Speech to Text Video Edit/ Clipping Analytics Processing Language Translation Newspapers Actionable Intelligence

15. Contour Analytical Process Create a Robot to Collect Data Filter Collected Data Based on Criteria Run Analysis on Selected Data Analyze Results to Create Product

16. Create a Robot to Crawl Enter Query Terms Select Robot Type Select Language Set Destination Folder Set Security Set Priority

17. Interacting With & Filtering Data Collected Data Execute Analytics We can now review the emergent topics in the data Date Filters People Organizations Locations Our Collection Source

18. Emergent Topics General EADS A400M topic

19. Emergent Topics Military Sales to US, UK, Canada

20. Emergent Topics Videos of the Aircraft

21. Emergent Topics Engine Flight Test Flight Test Delay & Earnings Impact

22. Topics Emerging Over Time

23. Relationship Analysis Contour examines the data, and automatically displays relationship. The relationships can be filtered by person, strength, and organization.

24. Deeper Analysis - Engine

25. Engine Summary Delays to the testing of the engine Causing overall delays in the aircraft Speculation on negative impact on EADS earnings Outlier discussion on propellers Discusses other types of propellers (not A400M) Outlier on runway discussion

26. Deeper Analysis - Daimler

27. Deeper Analysis - Daimler

28. Daimler Summary Daimler’s revenue is increasing As is their stock price and dividend This is in spite of the A400M Responsible for 237M off of their balance sheet

29. Deeper Analysis - Runway

30. Deeper Analysis - Runway Most of the links talk about the “runway” in a way we would expect Runway at Farnborough Air Show Runway dimensions for the C-17 A nude man who ran across the runway at the Delhi airport Plane skidding off of a runway But the top link is focused on fashion

31. Deeper Analysis - Runway When we pull up the document it is loaded with data on EADS and Airbus

32. Deeper Analysis - Runway And when we go to the website it also looks fairly harmless. But…

34. Further Analysis Since Engines Were the problem, we now focus on the engine manufacturer: Europrop International

35. The Search Approach Over 15,000 Results 6,420 in English 5,800 duplicates About 650 good pages Containing Multimedia Data Text, Images, Videos

36. Create a Robot to Crawl Enter Query Terms Select Robot Type Select Language Set Destination Folder Set Security Set Priority

37. Europrop Results

38. Emergent Topics- EPI Group Makeup of the EPI Team ITP MTU Rolls Royce Snecma

39. Emergent Topics- EPI Group Suppliers for Control System Snecma- Installation & controls Hispano-Suizo- gearbox TechspaceAreo – lubrication system

40. Emergent Topics- Rolls Royce Peter Price Technical genius at Rolls Royce Designed the engine Contributed to many other programs Extremely valuable asset

41. Emergent Topics- Rolls Royce Insight into Rolls Royce’s Contracts

42. Emergent Topics- LinkedIn Profiles Not just LinkedIn, but other profile site as well

43. Emergent Topics- Contract Awards

44. Clusters of Related Topics General A400 Info Executive Team Profiles Contracts Engine Specifics Link to Brazil A330 Crash Videos and Images

45. Summary of Analysis Analyzed over 30,000 web pages Most were the “noise” not the “signal” Automatically distilled down to 1,600 useful pages Automatically discovered Topics and relationships in the data Supply chain of the A400M Supply chain of the problematic Turboprop engine Uncovered 2nd tier subcontractors and there roles Elapsed time Automatic Collection: 4 hours Automatic Processing: 2 hours Analysis: 2 hours While you sleep!