Social Platform for an ISR Collaboration Environment (SPLICE)

Despite technical advances to intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities, intelligence analysts in the theater cannot achieve true multi-INT exploitation and cross-cueing due to the stove-piped nature of fielded ISR systems which limits effective collaboration among analysts. Current ISR systems: (1) force human-to-human interaction to be the primary method to discover relevant information, despite its inefficiency; and (2) require significant development for modification, leading to traditionally long delays before new capabilities transition to the field, forcing analysts to adapt in the meantime by using manual fusion techniques and"swivel-chair integration."Analysts must overcome these limitations on collaboration before they can achieve superior operational performance. To enable the human component to fully leverage emerging integrated global ISR systems through effective analyst collaboration for automated multi-INT exploitation and cross-cueing for a wide variety of missions, we propose to develop and evaluate a Social Platform for an ISR Collaboration Environment (SPLICE). SPLICE will maximize analyst efficiency within emerging global ISR systems by providing a novel collaboration platform for intelligence analysts to discover relevant information and rapidly capture, reuse, and share analyst workflow processes. This combined approach provides a platform for intelligence analysts that can revolutionize multi-INT exploitation and cross-cueing for an ever-changing battlespace.