It is used to store copies of seized digital media, including disk images of CD-ROMs, DVDs, hard drives, mobile phones, and raw network feeds, as well as scans of physical documents.
DaLAS supports the upload, processing, and classification of media, and provides a central, remotely accessed, searchable repository of data.
The full details of DaLAS, including the number of files and total amount of stored data, are classified.
[1] During a 2011 investigation in the aftermath of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, a query of Nidal Malik Hasan's personal email account returned a result on a hard drive image stored on DaLAS.
The match was a message posted to a web forum by Hasan on February 10, 2005, asking whether doctors should prescribe intoxicating medications under Sharia law.