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4 I SYSTEMS ENHANCING C 4 I SYSTEMS ENHANCING C WITH WITH ACTIONABLE HUMAN TERRAIN ACTIONABLE HUMAN TERRAIN KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE Katya Drozdova, PhD Robert Popp, PhD Senior Research Scientist Chair & CEO National Security Innovations (NSI) National Security Innovations (NSI) kdrozdova@natlsec.com rpopp@natlsec.com Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) & George Mason University (GMU) Symposium on: CRITICAL ISSUES IN C 4 4 I “CRITICAL ISSUES IN C “ I” ” CRITICAL HUMAN TERRAIN CRITICAL HUMAN TERRAIN ISSUES IN C 4 4 I... ISSUES IN C I... 1

OVERVIEW OVERVIEW • Human terrain knowledge is increasingly critical to operational success • Incorporating actionable human terrain knowledge into C 4 I systems and processes • Challenges & Solutions – Scientific – Technological – Operational • Role of industry, academia, practitioners HUMAN TERRAIN KNOWLEDGE HUMAN TERRAIN KNOWLEDGE CRITICAL TO OPERATIONAL CRITICAL TO OPERATIONAL SUCCESS SUCCESS • Critical Importance – Historically – Now more than ever • Obtaining actionable human terrain knowledge is difficult – Need physical presence in denied and hostile areas – Need deep social, historical & geo-political understanding – Need to recognize and overcome enemy counter-efforts • Meshing with traditional C 4 I approaches – Need capabilities for integrating social-science and technology inputs/outputs/methods/tools (e g NSI) 2

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES & TECHNICAL CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS SOLUTIONS • Scientific – Collections, quantification – Need social science methods and operational prowess • Technological – Meshing qualitative and quantitative inputs – Rapid updating, interoperability, usefulness & ease of use • Operational – All of the above and more under fire • Integrative – Maintaining high-fidelity between real-world and computational/modeling representations within C4I systems Example � INCORPORATING HUMAN TERRAIN IN INCORPORATING HUMAN TERRAIN IN 4 I: C C 4 I: FROM GEO- FROM GEO -SPATIAL TO GEO SPATIAL TO GEO- - POLITICAL POLITICAL COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE MODELING & GEOSPATIAL HUMAN TERRAIN ANALYSIS & ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGIES OFFER NEW & FIT NEEDED C4I MORE CAPABILTIES TRADITIONAL C4I DOMAN diagnostics How to integrate across multiple levels of human activity shaping the human terrain? Use multi-scale human-networks paradigm � 3

ANALYTIC DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN ANALYTIC DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN TERRAIN TO INCORPORATE INTO C 4 4 I I TERRAIN TO INCORPORATE INTO C SYSTEMS SYSTEMS ANALYTICAL DIMENSIONS OF ‘HUMAN TERRAIN’: viewed as multi-scaled & interdependent human networks Data collection A unifying framework: scales & Levels of analysis Global MULTI-SCALED HUMAN NETWORKS HUMAN NETWORKS at different scales/levels of Regional analysis… Unifying Concept: individual nodes Nation-State Organizational Group social & technological links Individual …exit & evolve in their OPERATING ENVIRONMENT (socio-cultural, political, historical, Cognitive etc.) Need to match with appropriate C4I systems at each level of analysis & across levels CONCLUSION CONCLUSION • Enhancing C4I systems with actionable human terrain knowledge requires better integration of social-scientific, technical, and operational methods, tools and insights • Challenges & Solutions – Scientific • Collections, quantification • Need social science methods and operational prowess – Technological • Meshing qualitative and quantitative inputs • Rapid updating, interoperability, usefulness & ease of use – Operational • All of the above and more under fire – Integrative • Maintaining high-fidelity between real-world and computational/modeling representations within C4I systems • Joint role for industry, academia, practitioners – AFCEA-GMU symposium bringing critical communities together 4