# RAVEn **Entity class:** DHS/ICE analytical platform **Expansion:** Repository for Analytics in a Virtualized Environment ## Definition **RAVEn** is a Homeland Security Investigations analytical infrastructure intended to bring investigative, intelligence, and scientific capabilities together for analysis of large, heterogeneous data sets. ICE budget testimony described it as a response to manual comparison across multiple data sets; the FY2024 ICE annual report describes RAVEN as central data storage and technical infrastructure for HSI Innovation Lab tools. ## Relationships - **agency:** [[wiki/United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement|U.S. ICE]] and [[wiki/Homeland Security Investigations|HSI]]. - **lineage peers:** [[wiki/FALCON Search and Analysis|FALCON-SA]], [[wiki/Investigative Case Management|ICM]], and [[wiki/ICEPIC|ICEPIC]]. - **function:** [[wiki/Graph-Based Intelligence Analysis|graph analysis]], entity association, pattern discovery, and investigative analytics. - **routes:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|intelligence environment]] and [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [ICE FY2019 budget testimony](https://www.ice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Speech/2018/180412albenceBenner.pdf) - [ICE FY2024 Annual Report](https://www.ice.gov/doclib/eoy/iceAnnualReportFY2024.pdf)