OSIS also offers specialized software and other tools to assist users in analysis and graphical interpretations of data.
OSIS makes available the National Air Intelligence Center's (NAIC) SYSTRAN machine translation (MT) capability to provide "real time" rough translations of foreign language information.
This was the first MT system to be integrated with the Web; implemented by the MITRE Corporation in the early 1990s.
[3] OSIS users access the World Wide Web and employ the full range of Internet protocols to collect information and conduct business with U.S. Government, academic and industrial organizations.
A firewall prevents non-OSIS Internet users from accessing the OSIS.