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Tool to Improve Collaboration between Operators and Reachback Analysts (TICORA)
Title: Principal Scientist
Phone: (617) 491-3474
Email: jpfautz@cra.com
Title: Contract Specialist
Phone: (617) 491-3474
Email: nhanna@cra.com
Modern full-spectrum operations require that military decision-makers possess an understanding of the human social, cultural, and behavioral (HSCB) dynamics of a region so they can plan effective courses of action (COAs). To ensure that COAs are congruent with the HSCB aspects of an intended audience while effectively achieving military objectives, decision-makers need to engage expert analysts to fill gaps in their own expertise, experience, and knowledge. However, there are a number of challenges in supporting this kind of reachback. As a result of our work deploying analytic software to the Psychological Operations community, we have substantial first-hand experience in understanding these issues as they relate to tactical PSYOP Operators who need to gain additional reachback insight from the expert analysts of the Department of State’s Strategic Studies Detachment (SSD). We propose to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of a Tool to Improve Collaboration between Operators and Reachback Analysts (TICORA). Our approach includes a work domain analysis to understand the issues that affect decision-makers and analysts; the use of our novel Causal Influence Modeling technique for allowing decision-makers to create subjective representations of the tactical environment; and other assisting components.
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