Abstract
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (LM ATL) is collaborating with
Professor James Llinas, Ph.D., of the Center for Multisource Information Fusion at
the University at Buffalo (State of NY), researching concepts for a mixed-initiative
associate system for intelligence analysts to facilitate reduced analysis and decision
times while proactively discovering and presenting relevant information based on
the analyst’s needs, current tasks and cognitive state. Today’s exploitation and
analysis systems have largely been designed for a specific sensor, data type, and
operational context, leading to difficulty in directly supporting the analyst’s evolving
tasking and work product development preferences across complex Operational
Environments. Our interactions with analysts illuminate the need to impact the
information fusion, exploitation, and analysis capabilities in a variety of ways,
including understanding data options, algorithm composition, hypothesis validation,
and work product development. Composable Analytic Systems, an analyst-driven
system that increases flexibility and capability to effectively utilize Multi-INT fusion
and analytics tailored to the analyst’s mission needs, holds promise to addresses the
current and future intelligence analysis needs, as US forces engage threats in
contested and denied environments.
