CyberIR@MIT spans technical, operational, socio-economic, and political topics, as well as decision and policy areas.

System features consist of:

1. Strategy for integrating and organizing knowledge domains consisting of multi-dimensional, multi-sector, and multi-disciplinary content.

2. Conceptual framework based on collaborative research regarding computer science and international relations in political science.

3. Content representation anchored in an ontology based on multidisciplinary research and the knowledge base.

4. Diverse functions for the detailed display of knowledge content for individual or aggregated topics.

5. Process to organize knowledge content with interrelated concepts in a nested, internally consistent form.

6. Alternative search and retrieval functions.

7. Standardized submission process to capture knowledge-content in an internally consistent form.

8. Evolving knowledge base and repository of emergent research.