Smartly-aggregated Wiki-style Argument Marshalling (SWARM) has been funded ($18m) by the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to develop a platform to support improved crowd-based argumentation. This work includes natural language processing, machine learning and advanced data analytics to support the collection and analysis of crowd-sourced data. The goals are to support better decisions through extraction of arguments from the crowd with specific focus on aiding geopolitical analysis and decision-making.

Drone analytics platform has been funded by the University of Melbourne to support data analysis of crop data captured through unmanned aerial vehicles (drones). This platform will be used to process aerial data on crops using large-scale Cloud infrastructure. This work will be used for example to identify crop issues and ways in which improved agricultural methods can be supported .