Open Source Information System

<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2>
<p>OSIS contents include:
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<ul><li>CIRC (Central Information Reference and Control)</li>
<li>A <a href="/facts/Database/VYcpkevb">database</a> of over 10 million titles on scientific and technical topics, including <a href="/facts/Patents/LjT2bG3A">patents</a>, <a href="/facts/Standardization/vS9AhNMS">standards</a>, <a href="/facts/Military_equipment/prfeC3v2">military equipment</a> and <a href="/facts/Systems/hmqQ4ASX">systems</a>.</li>
<li><i>Conference Database</i> of upcoming <a href="/facts/Academic_conference/0YAVfxe3">symposia</a>, congresses, and conventions in the areas of <a href="/facts/Science/IJoaD7rs">science</a>, <a href="/facts/Technology/9Uav5WVR">technology</a>, <a href="/facts/Engineering/RFVg8H3I">engineering</a>, <a href="/facts/Politics/1gDNy3RP">politics</a>, and <a href="/facts/Economics/HYctA2Dn">economics</a>.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/DTED/IL1UvS1V">DTED</a> (Digital Terrain Elevation Data) map collection [from The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (<a href="/facts/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency/DrC6QGyo">NGA</a>), formerly the National Imagery and Mapping Association (NIMA)] provides global coverage.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Open_Source_Center/77KzoL1B">OSC</a> (Open Source Center, formerly <a href="/facts/Foreign_Broadcast_Information_Service/EoCYM8NQ">FBIS</a>, Foreign Broadcast Information Service) products include the Daily Reports, Science & Technology Perspectives, Trends, and Pacific Rim Economic Review.</li>
<li>IC ROSE database service provides searchable text articles from hundreds of periodicals on a wide range of subjects.</li>
<li>TCOM (Telecommunications) contains abstracts and complete articles on <a href="/facts/Telecommunications/vxoj1cxR">telecommunications</a> related topics.</li>
<li>TEL (Technical Equipment List) indexes over 100,000 brochures and manuals on telecommunications and related equipment.</li></ul>
<p>Additional commercial datasources, such as <a href="/facts/Oxford_Analytica/mqrwNgeE">Oxford Analytica</a>, as well as unclassified library holdings of several OSIS member agencies, including <a href="/facts/Defense_Intelligence_Agency/lo2KYneo">DIA</a>, reside on OSIS.
OSIS also offers specialized software and other tools to assist users in analysis and graphical interpretations of data.
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<h2 id="real-time-translation">Real time translation</h2>
<p>OSIS makes available the <a href="/facts/National_Air_Intelligence_Center/IszjEdvg">National Air Intelligence Center</a>'s (NAIC) <a href="/facts/SYSTRAN/7SsJPH2T">SYSTRAN</a> <a href="/facts/Machine_translation/DGF3NwuI">machine translation</a> (MT) 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.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
</p><p>OSIS users access the <a href="/facts/World_Wide_Web/wvnTrWFq">World Wide Web</a> and employ the full range of Internet protocols to collect information and conduct business with <a href="/facts/U.S._Government/VJCxUaf7">U.S. Government</a>, academic and industrial organizations. OSIS users are seen by non-U.S. Government <a href="/facts/Internet/Xw1rVvJU">Internet</a> clients as "osis.gov".
</p><p>A firewall prevents non-OSIS Internet users from accessing the OSIS.
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://ra.intelink.gov/">DNI-U Remote Access website</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Intelink/4Njmnh5H">Intelink</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Federation of American Scientists on OSIS <a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/osis.htm" target="_blank">http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/osis.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Federation of American Scientists on Intelink <a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/intelink.htm" target="_blank">http://www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/intelink.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Tools for the knowledge analyst: an information superiority visionary demonstration, Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1998 <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=716700" target="_blank">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=716700</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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