Open Source Information System


The Open Source Information System is the former name of an American unclassified network serving the U.S. intelligence community with open source intelligence.
Since mid-2006, the content of OSIS is now known as Intelink-U while the network portion is known as DNI-U.

Contents

OSIS contents include:
Additional commercial datasources, such as Oxford Analytica, as well as unclassified library holdings of several OSIS member agencies, including DIA, reside on OSIS.
OSIS also offers specialized software and other tools to assist users in analysis and graphical interpretations of data.

Real time translation

OSIS makes available the National Air Intelligence Center's SYSTRAN machine translation capability to provide "real time" rough translations of foreign language information. This was the first MT system to be integrated with the Web; implemented by the MITRE Corporation in the early 1990s.
OSIS users access the World Wide Web and employ the full range of Internet protocols to collect information and conduct business with U.S. Government, academic and industrial organizations. OSIS users are seen by non-U.S. Government Internet clients as "osis.gov".
A firewall prevents non-OSIS Internet users from accessing the OSIS.