Warfighter information services: lessons learned in the intelligence domain

S. E. Bray

doi:10.1117/12.2051496

22 May 2014 Warfighter information services: lessons learned in the intelligence domain

S. E. Bray

Proceedings Volume 9122, Next-Generation Analyst II; 912205 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051496
Event: SPIE Sensing Technology + Applications, 2014, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

A vision was presented in a previous paper of how a common set of services within a framework could be used to provide all the information processing needs of Warfighters. Central to that vision was the concept of a “Virtual Knowledge Base”. The paper presents an implementation of these ideas in the intelligence domain. Several innovative technologies were employed in the solution, which are presented and their benefits explained. The project was successful, validating many of the design principles for such a system which had been proposed in earlier work. Many of these principles are discussed in detail, explaining lessons learned. The results showed that it is possible to make vast improvements in the ability to exploit available data, making it discoverable and queryable wherever it is from anywhere within a participating network; and to exploit machine reasoning to make faster and better inferences from available data, enabling human analysts to spend more of their time doing more difficult analytical tasks rather than searching for relevant data. It was also demonstrated that a small number of generic Information Processing services can be combined and configured in a variety of ways (without changing any software code) to create “fact-processing” workflows, in this case to create different intelligence analysis capabilities. It is yet to be demonstrated that the same generic services can be reused to create analytical/situational awareness capabilities for logistics, operations, planning or other military functions but this is considered likely.

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S. E. Bray "Warfighter information services: lessons learned in the intelligence domain", Proc. SPIE 9122, Next-Generation Analyst II, 912205 (22 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051496

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