Editing Total Information Awareness (section)

=== Early developments ===
TIA was proposed as a program shortly after the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001, by Rear Admiral [[John Poindexter]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rosen|first=Jeffrey|date=2002-12-15|title=The Year in Ideas; Total Information Awareness|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/the-year-in-ideas-total-information-awareness.html|access-date=2021-04-03|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> A former national security adviser to President [[Ronald Reagan]] and a key player in the [[Iran–Contra affair]], he was working with Syntek Technologies, a company often contracted out by the government for work on defense projects. TIA was officially commissioned during the 2002 [[fiscal year]].<ref name= bigbrother>{{cite web| url = https://www.publicintegrity.org/2002/12/17/3164/outsourcing-big-brother| title = Outsourcing Big Brother: Office of Total Information Awareness relies on private sector to track Americans| last1 = Mayle| first1 = Adam| last2 = Knott| first2 = Alex| date = 17 December 2002| website = www.publicintegrity.org| publisher = [[Center for Public Integrity]]| access-date = 6 June 2016}}</ref> In January 2002 Poindexter was appointed Director of the newly created [[Information Awareness Office]] division of DARPA, which managed TIA's development.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl31786.pdf| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040627022053/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl31786.pdf| url-status = dead| archive-date = June 27, 2004| title = Total Information Awareness Programs: Funding, Composition, and Oversight Issues| last = Belasco| first = Amy| date = 21 March 2003| website = www.au.af.mil/au| publisher = [[Congressional Research Service]] | access-date = 7 June 2016}}</ref> The office temporarily operated out of the fourth floor of DARPA's headquarters, while Poindexter looked for a place to permanently house TIA's researchers.<ref name= jacobsen/> Soon [[Project Genoa]] was completed and its research moved on to [[Genoa II]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/darpatech2002/speeches/ARMOUR.pdf| title = Genoa II DARPAtech 2002 Presentation Script| last = Armour| first = Tom| date = 2002| website = w2.eff.org| publisher = [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]| access-date = 20 June 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161008004230/https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/darpatech2002/speeches/ARMOUR.pdf| archive-date = 2016-10-08| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://infowar.net/tia/www.darpa.mil/iao/Genoa.htm| title = Genoa| website = www.darpa.mil/iao| publisher = [[Information Awareness Office]]| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090216081001/http://infowar.net/tia/www.darpa.mil/iao/Genoa.htm| archive-date = 2009-02-16}}</ref>

Late that year, the Information Awareness Office awarded the [[Science Applications International Corporation]] (SAIC) a $19 million contract to develop the "Information Awareness Prototype System", the core architecture to integrate all of TIA's information extraction, analysis, and dissemination tools. This was done through its consulting arm, Hicks & Associates, which employed many former Defense Department and military officials.<ref name= harris2/>

TIA's earliest version employed software called "Groove", which had been developed in 2000 by [[Ray Ozzie]]. Groove made it possible for analysts from many different agencies to share intelligence data instantly, and linked specialized programs that were designed to look for patterns of suspicious behavior.<ref>{{cite news|title=TECHNOLOGY; Many Tools Of Big Brother Are Now Up And Running|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/23/business/technology-many-tools-of-big-brother-are-now-up-and-running.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=7 December 2013|date=December 23, 2002}}</ref>