Intelligence Essay Contest Winner
Developing Tomorrow’s Intelligence Analyst: A New Plan for High Performance in the Intelligence Community
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From warfighters on the front lines to policymakers on Capitol Hill, people depend on the intelligence community to protect national security interests. The intelligence community faces an incredible and increasingly complex challenge in bringing this information to practical application. Quantity, sources and types of information are exploding. To date, the traditional response to improving intelligence effectiveness has been to turn to technology. The intelligence community spends hundreds of millions of dollars on technology integration services, satellite equipment and new technologies in areas related to knowledge discovery, data mining and collaboration.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Anonymous
This paper does not warrant recognition as an essay winner. The writer doesn't offer anything new or innovative. You don't want to create a centralized training center for analysts. Doing so will only deter creative and critical thinking. You don't want to place a technician with analysts...that's wasteful. What you do want to do is create rigorous training programs that equip analysts to use tools/techniques/technologies to convert raw data to information to knowledge. You need to create an environment where analysts in their respective domains can collaborate freely and dynamically with their peers in other domains so that they can form the best estimates possible based on the data available. We need analysts to work together across disciplines and dynamically with collectors to ask for information--not prescribe collection solutions--so that they can work with the best data possible, without bias to any specific collection method/technique. AFCEA Intelligence professionals should hold a higher standard. This essay presents fundamentals that have been in-play since the 1940s. We need to be better than this.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Anthony Crump- anthony.crump@robins.af.mil
Computers, networks, telephones, satellites, are all tools that we use to send, store and retrieve information. We use tools to help us do our work. The real capital investment is in people. We should never forget that tools are a by-product of people. When the economy dictates more investment in tools then people&..we are all in trouble. When we allow capital investments to have a better return them people investments then we have just sold out the human race for a small profit.
Thinking outside the box, gathering accurate data, looking at trends/patterns/causes, studying cause and effect, environmental conditions, philosophies, religions, wants needs and aspirations, and a strong hunch are key elements in research and analysis. The ability to get into someone's way of thinking can not be done via a computer, but a computer can help. Man kind can make a lot of material inventions and rearrange in different sequences, but human beings do not make or assemble other human beings the process of generating life belongs to our creator...the communicator in-charge.
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