COGNITIVE FACTORS IN HOMELAND DEFENSE: THE ROLE OF HUMAN FACTORS IN THE NOVEL INTELLIGENCE FROM MASSIVE DATA (NIMD) PROGRAM

摘要

The Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) funds innovative, creative, and high-risk research to advance the state-of-the-art in information technologies. One program aims to develop methods for supporting intelligence analysts in discovering "novel intelligence from massive data" (NIMD). An important feature of this program is the role it gave to cognitive factors. The call-forproposals said, "Thus, NIMD is about human interaction with information in a way that permits intelligence analysts to spot the telltale signs of strategic surprise in massive data sources - building tools that capitalize on human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses to enhance and extend analytic capabilities." This symposium brings together representatives of five of the NIMD teams. While the approaches and projects are diverse, all are focused at improving analysts' ability to extract hidden patterns from massive sources of data.