Developing Tomorrow's Intelligence Analyst: A New Plan for High Performance in the Intelligence Community

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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