Assessing The Tradecraft Of Intelligence Analysis
by Treverton, Gregory F.; Gabbard, Bryan C.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-03-10
Publisher(s): RAND Corporation
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Summary
This report assesses intelligence analysis across the main U.S. intelligence agencies and makes a number of recommendations, some of which parallel initiatives that have begun in the wake of the December 2004 legislation, for instance, create a Deputy Director of National Intelligence as a focal point for analysis, establish a National Intelligence University, build a Long Term Analysis Unit at the National Intelligence Council, and form an Open Source Center for making more creative use of open-source materials.
Table of Contents
| Figures | |
| Tables | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Analytic Community Today | p. 3 |
| Analytic Skill Sets and Major Tradeoffs | p. 5 |
| Examining the Interviews in More Detail | p. 9 |
| Key Themes for Leveraging Future R&D Priorities | p. 13 |
| A Pyramid of Analytic Tasks | p. 13 |
| Insiders Versus Outsiders | p. 15 |
| The Range of Tools | p. 18 |
| Initiatives to Link Tools to Tasks | p. 24 |
| Building the Human Capital for the Future | p. 27 |
| Reforming Compensation and Incentives? | p. 27 |
| Training Analysts | p. 29 |
| A New Generation of Analysts | p. 31 |
| A Vision of the Analytic Community Tomorrow | p. 33 |
| Changing Tradecraft Characteristics | p. 33 |
| Issue 1: Workforce Data | p. 36 |
| Issue 2: R&D on Methods, Datasets, Analytic Techniques, and Tools | p. 36 |
| Issue 3: Education, Training, and Tradecraft | p. 37 |
| Issue 4: Getting and Keeping the Next Generation of Analysts | p. 39 |
| Issue 5: Data-Sharing, Compartmentation, and Secrecy | p. 40 |
| Issue 6: All-Source Analysis | p. 41 |
| Issue 7: New Kinds of Intelligence, Especially "Domestic" | p. 43 |
| Issue 8: Analysis versus Collection-Driven Intelligence | p. 44 |
| Issue 9: Reporting versus Analysis | p. 45 |
| Issue 10: Organizing the Intelligence Community | p. 46 |
| A Final Word | p. 49 |
| Recommended Actions | p. 51 |
| Bibliography | p. 53 |
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