Project Genoa II

"Cognitive amplifiers" that help teams of people rapidly and fully comprehend complicated and uncertain situations 4.

The means to rapidly and seamlessly cut across – and complement – existing stove-piped hierarchical organizational structures by creating dynamic, adaptable, peer-to-peer collaborative networks In 2002, Tom Armour, a veteran of the Genoa project, was selected by John Poindexter to be the director of the new Genoa II program, a component of Total Information Awareness (TIA) effort.

Genoa II was renamed Topsail and handed over to the National Security Agency's Advanced Research and Development Activity division for further work.

[7] In October 2005, the Science Applications International Corporation signed a $3.7 million contract for work on Topsail.

In early 2006 a spokesman for the Air Force Research Laboratory said that Topsail was "in the process of being canceled due to lack of funds."

Graphic from the Information Awareness Office displaying the goals of the Genoa II project