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Jim Scrofani, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
jwscrofa@nps.edu
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Magdi Kamel

 

“The ‘Googlization’ of data and the rich tools and capabilities that are emerging must be leveraged by the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance community.  Our work must yield real-time situation awareness and inform intent to allow our leaders and warfighters to maintain strategic and tactical advantage and outpace our adversaries in every way.  We can’t afford to wait.”

 

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Overview

 

The Center for Multi-INT Studies (CMIS) employs Big Data Solutions to help solve the Multi-INT problem.

  • Multi-INT is an emerging, interdisciplinary field seeking to understand how integrating intelligence can vastly improve the intelligence value derived from a given intelligence system.
  • In an era where collection of data has outpaced the ability of technology and humans to make sense of all available information, the orthodox notion of exclusively working in, or specializing in, independent, single intelligence domains (e.g. HUMINT, SIGINT, etc.) is inadequate
  • Multi-INT approaches, employed across the intelligence management process (currently referred to as the Tasking-Collection-Processing-Exploitation-Dissemination (TCPED) process, in several intelligence settings), must be examined and integrated notions of requirements generation, tasking, collection, processing, and dissemination, and variants, must be considered.
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  • Conduct and facilitate advanced Multi-INT research outcomes
  • Expand the breadth and depth of national Multi-INT research capacity
  • Develop high-quality Multi-INT academic programs
  • Serve as a focal point in establishing and growing a Multi-INT community of interest

The Naval Postgraduate School Center for Multi-INT Studies (CMIS) has a bold vision to transform the field of intelligence and seeks to vastly improve the current state of the art in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). To this end, CMIS supports innovative, independent research that has the potential to expand knowledge in related areas.

As real-time, accurate and actionable intelligence products are demanded by analysts, warfighters, and decision makers, linear, human-intensive processes are no longer sufficient. The capabilities of current and future adversaries and the dynamism and complexity of the environments in which they operate necessitate vast improvements in the timeliness and execution of intelligence-cycle processes.

Humans do not have the cognitive ability or the time to analyze the vast quantities of multi-source, multi-dimensional data that are now available. Revolutionary decision support, situational awareness, sensemaking, inferencing, reasoning, and visualization capabilities must be employed to expediently unlock the information contained in these myriad streams of data.

CMIS envisions a future where cognitive technologies can anticipate strategic and tactical information needs, perceptively orchestrate distributed sensors across every domain (cyber, human, terrestrial, air, sea, space, etc.), and deliver timely and accurate recommendations to kinetic and/or non-kinetic agents (human and/or machine) to employ required actions.

The transformative technologies of interest are:

  • Understanding targets as systems
  • Orchestrated resource management
  • Cognitive sensemaking
  • Human-computer symbiosis

The Center provides NPS and the sponsor community with research outcomes that advance the state-of-the-art in Multi-INT and intelligence integration and, ultimately, have profound and enduring impacts on the missions of the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.

  • Introduction to the tools, methods, applications and practice of Data Science
  • One-year distance learning-based curriculum
    • Four-course sequence
    • One course / quarter
    • Separate data management and analytics tracks
  • Electives address Multi-INT distinctives