Some of the technology shown in last year’s blockbuster movie Minority Report may soon be a reality and a centerpiece of the intelligence community’s war on terrorism.

Research into new intelligence technology is taking place as part of a $54 million program known as Genoa II. DARPA is studying potential IT that may not only enable new levels of collaboration among teams of intelligence analysts, policy-makers and covert operators, but could also make it possible for humans and computers to “think together” in real time to “anticipate and preempt terrorist threats,” according to official program documents.