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BAA 05-28 (Archived)
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Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE)
Program Manager: Dr. Joseph Olive
Background:
U.S. forces operate around the globe, often in unfamiliar places where English is not the native language. For their safety and effectiveness, warfighters must understand a wide range of new and changing information that appears first, and often only, in foreign languages, including what is being said by various leaders to the people in the area of operation and how the local populace is reacting.
The GALE program will provide, in an integrated product, automated transcription, translation, and distillation of foreign speech and text in support of military operations and tactical situational awareness. GALE will enable soldiers and commanders to find and interpret needed information quickly and effectively, regardless of language or medium. In doing so, this will also reduce the military manpower requirements for translation, particularly the already over-burdened foreign language experts, and mitigate the escalating need for trained support personnel.
GALE technology will make it possible for English speakers to do much of what foreign language operators and analysts do now: convert large quantities of "undecipherable" foreign language data into timely, actionable intelligence in English (for operational planning, crisis response, and force protection). This will provide commanders and other decision makers with vital information that was previously unavailable.
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