2.3: Analytic Tools
Deploying analytic tools to help analysts deal with the flood of new and existing sources of information by 2005 will require
an expensive and focused effort.
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To manage this process the NIPB needs a plan that includes the following elements. Implementing Actions: • Identify executive
agents for key technology efforts to conserve resources and reduce stovepipe approaches over the FYDP. This step needs to
be taken immediately to better coordinate efforts in an area where many informal exchange mechanisms now exist. • Designate
the new IC collaboration center as a central clearinghouse for efforts in tool development and deployment and for lessons
learned. Include an approach to accelerate analytic tool deployment in a roadmap that the cell will develop for IC-wide efforts
in FY 2001. • Focus the IC’s reasearch and development (R&D) strategy on supporting analytic tool requirements, providing
a study in late 2000 on how the commercial sector deals with analogous problems, and suggesting some lessons learned that
would apply to the IC. • Conduct a study in FY 2001 of the level of effort required for analytic tools over the next ten years,
to be incorporated into the collaboration roadmap in time for inclusion in FY 2003 budgets. • Develop a seal of approval program
to encourage the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) rather than government off-the-shelf (GOTS) whenever possible. • Provide
adequate funds through FY 2010 to support full-scale deployment of highly capable analytic tools, many not yet developed for
the commercial sector, that will be needed to search the huge volume of existing data stores and new sources that will be
arriving at the analysts’ workstations. • Support and expand technological innovation associated with data fusion algorithms
and processes across all collection and analytic disciplines. • Closely track the new tools and concepts that will emerge
from the R&D sector and work closely with this sector, helping to steer its current efforts.
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