"Let's see, where am I going to eat lunch tomorrow?"

From the Wikipedia page on the Information Awareness Office: "Futures Markets Applied to Prediction, or FutureMAP, intends to 'concentrate on market-based techniques for avoiding surprise and predicting future events.' It will analyze data from the world's economy in attempt to predict political instability, threats to national security, and in general every major event in the near future. The IAO's stated strategy for this division includes 'the markets must also be sufficiently robust to withstand manipulation', possibly suggesting the intention of altering future events to further the goals of the United States."

As the IAO appears to be fond of contrived acronyms, I think they should change their name to "Lateral Methodology Assessment Office," or "LMAO."