Collaboration across communities

This talk discusses the intelligence analysis process, with particular emphasis on the challenges faced as (1) individual analysts assess, distill and interpret information obtained collaboratively from multiple sources; (2) collaborate with others to form increasingly distilled and integrated evaluations and warnings; and (3) interact with decision makers under legal, social and cultural constraints in support of those decision makers needs to determine policy and actions. Research implications will be discussed from a sociotechnical perspective. The issues faced in the Intelligence Community will be compared and contrasted with those arising in other collaborative enterprises such as engineering.