Editing Total Information Awareness (section)

====Genoa====
{{Main|Project Genoa}}
Unlike the other program components, Genoa predated TIA and provided a basis for it.<ref>{{cite book| title = Balancing Privacy & Security: The Privacy Implications of Government Data Mining Programs: Congressional Hearing| publisher = DIANE Publishing| pages = 126| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5IR9z1pcQqoC| isbn = 9781422320259}}</ref> Genoa's primary function was [[intelligence analysis]] to assist human analysts.<ref name= verton/> It was designed to support both top-down and bottom-up approaches; a policymaker could hypothesize an attack and use Genoa to look for supporting evidence of it or compile pieces of intelligence into a diagram and suggest possible outcomes. Human analysts could then modify the diagram to test various cases.<ref name= harris/>

Genoa was independently commissioned in 1996 and completed in 2002 as scheduled.