Realizing the Potential of Analytics: Arming the Human Mind.

摘要

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 (9/11) exposed an analytical deficiency within the intelligence community. However, the US Air Force has invested in expanding collection capacity, as evidenced by the 375 intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms added since 9/11.+ More remarkably, the increase in ISR platforms has come at a time when the total Air Force inventory has decreased by 500 aircraft. ISR platforms such as the RQ-4, MC-12, and MQ-1 directly address an important element of ISR--but at the cost of other critical elements, such as intelligence analysis. Air Force Doctrine Document 2-0, Global Integrated Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance Operations, defines global integrated ISR as the 'cross-domain synchronization and integration of the planning and operation of ISR assets; sensors; processing, exploitation and dissemination systems and, analysis and production capabilities across the globe to enable current and future operations.' However, today's investment in collection capacity does not address the mounting limitations of intelligence analysis initially highlighted by the 9/11 Commission in 2004.