Editing Total Information Awareness (section)

===Mission===
TIA's goal was to revolutionize the United States' ability to detect, classify and identify foreign terrorists and decipher their plans, thereby enabling the U.S. to take timely action to preempt and disrupt terrorist activity.

To that end, TIA was to create a counter-terrorism information system that:<ref>{{cite web|title=Total Information Awareness (TIA) System|url=http://www.darpa.mil/iao/tiasystems.htm|publisher=[[DARPA]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021003053651/http://www.darpa.mil/iao/tiasystems.htm|archive-date=October 3, 2002|date=October 3, 2002}}</ref>

* Increased information coverage by an order of magnitude and afforded easy scaling
* Provided focused warnings within an hour after a triggering event occurred or an evidence threshold was passed
* Automatically queued analysts based on partial pattern matches and had patterns that covered 90% of all previously known foreign terrorist attacks
* Supported collaboration, analytical reasoning and information sharing so that analysts could hypothesize, test and propose theories and mitigating strategies, so decision-makers could effectively evaluate the impact of policies and courses of action.