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Accenture to Develop Bio-surveillance Social Media Pilot Project for DHS

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Accenture [ACN] a one-year, $3 million contract to develop a pilot project that relies on monitoring social media to enhance the nation’s bio-surveillance capabilities. Accenture will take advantage of public interfaces to social media sites to access them and then use its collaboration platform software and analytics to make sense of the information it collects through the interfaces, John Machette, the head of the company’s Public Safety portfolio, tells HSR. During the…

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