The database as well as the model used by Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories are currently undergoing operational test and evaluation by the United States Southern Command and United States Pacific Command.
In March 2010, O'Brien authored an article that compared ICEWS with past efforts in the realm, including systems designed by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.
[2][3] According to the paper, the first of three phases of the ICEWS involved a competition between different groups to successfully predict events of interest based on historical data.
[6][7] ICEWS has been discussed extensively in blogs related to geopolitical forecasting as well as crisis prediction.
[3][8] Among the topics discussed have been the utility of access to ICEWS data in improving the quality of predictions made in The Good Judgment Project[9] and its similarities and differences with the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT).