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ENHANCING C ENHANCING C4

4I SYSTEMS

I SYSTEMS WITH WITH ACTIONABLE HUMAN TERRAIN ACTIONABLE HUMAN TERRAIN KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) & George Mason University (GMU) Symposium on:

“ “CRITICAL ISSUES IN C CRITICAL ISSUES IN C4

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I” ” Robert Popp, PhD

Chair & CEO National Security Innovations (NSI) rpopp@natlsec.com Katya Drozdova, PhD Senior Research Scientist National Security Innovations (NSI) kdrozdova@natlsec.com

CRITICAL HUMAN TERRAIN CRITICAL HUMAN TERRAIN ISSUES IN C ISSUES IN C4

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OVERVIEW OVERVIEW

• Human terrain knowledge is increasingly

critical to operational success

• Incorporating actionable human terrain

knowledge into C4I 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 C4I approaches

– Need capabilities for integrating social-science and technology inputs/outputs/methods/tools (e g NSI)

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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 C C4

4I:

I: FROM GEO FROM GEO-

• SPATIAL TO GEO

SPATIAL TO GEO-

• POLITICAL

POLITICAL

How to integrate across multiple levels of human activity shaping the human terrain? Use multi-scale human-networks paradigm diagnostics

GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS & TECHNOLOGIES FIT MORE TRADITIONAL C4I DOMAN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE MODELING & HUMAN TERRAIN ANALYSIS OFFER NEW & NEEDED C4I CAPABILTIES

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ANALYTIC DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN ANALYTIC DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN TERRAIN TO INCORPORATE INTO C TERRAIN TO INCORPORATE INTO C4

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ANALYTICAL DIMENSIONS OF ‘HUMAN TERRAIN’: viewed as multi-scaled & interdependent human networks

Cognitive Individual Group Organizational Nation-State Regional Global Unifying Concept: MULTI-SCALED HUMAN NETWORKS social & technological links individual nodes HUMAN NETWORKS at different scales/levels of analysis… …exit & evolve in their OPERATING ENVIRONMENT (socio-cultural, political, historical, etc.) Data collection scales & Levels of analysis A unifying framework:

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

• perational 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