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Appendix B

Summary of the Committee’s Information Gathering

The purpose of a decadal survey is to gather ideas from researchers and the community interested in the subject of the study that can be used to support future research initiatives. Following on the successful approach used in previous decadal surveys of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, this committee used a number of mechanisms to solicit input from relevant communities. Its efforts included public meetings, calls for white papers, public workshops, and other forums for gathering research ideas.

PUBLIC MEETINGS

Prior to the nomination of the decadal survey committee, a separate steering committee was appointed to plan and carry out a Summit on Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security. The purposes of this summit, held October 4–5, 2016, in Washington, D.C., were to explore issues likely to be relevant and encourage members of the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) community to participate in the survey process.1 The summit brought together academics, members of the Intelligence Community (IC), and representatives from the government to explore cutting-edge SBS research, the relevance of such work to intelligence analysis, and future directions for research. Presenters described relevant trends in their disciplines (e.g., brain research and neuroscience; the study of social interaction, behavioral

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1 Proceedings of the Summit can be found at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/24710/social-and-behavioral-sciences-for-national-security-proceedings-of-a [June 2019].

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genetics, and risk and decision making). Representatives from the IC discussed objectives for the decadal survey and highlighted recurring issues and long-term strategic challenges (see Box B-1 for a list of presentations/speakers). In addition to the steering committee and staff, there were 130 in-person attendees and 226 webcast viewers from across the United States and Canada. The product of this summit provided valuable background as the committee was formed and began its work.

The decadal survey committee also invited researchers and members of the IC to make public presentations at two of its six meetings.2 One panel included scholars in linguistics, political psychology, and political science. The second panel included representatives of federal research programs supporting SBS research for national security purposes who discussed accomplishments and objectives of such programs. Both sessions were accessible to in-person attendees (33, including speakers) and via webcast (98 individuals from across the United States and Argentina). See Box B-2 for a list of presenters.

WHITE PAPERS

The committee issued two separate calls for white papers. The first, open from November 2016 to February 2017, sought information on the needs and challenges facing the IC that might relate to SBS research. This call sought input from SBS academics and researchers with IC experience and/or knowledge to provide insights into the IC’s needs and challenges. Authors were asked to address the following questions: (1) What are some of the key challenges, questions, and needs facing the IC regarding social and behavioral developments (see below)? (2) What makes these challenges and questions important at this time and in the foreseeable future? and (3) What are the anticipated national security benefits from addressing these challenges and questions? The committee received 36 papers in response to this first call. Table B-1 lists the papers; all white papers received are available on the study website at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BBCSS/DBASSE_175673 [June 2019].

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2 See the study website for meeting agendas, speaker biographies, and select presentations at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BBCSS/DBASSE_177475 [June 2019].

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The second call for white papers, open May to June 2017, focused on possibilities in SBS research (concepts, methods, tools, techniques, and new ideas that could advance knowledge) for addressing analytic challenges and needs. This call sought input from researchers across a broad range of SBS fields, beyond those normally associated with national security and international relations. Authors were asked to identify recent advances and accomplishments in SBS research or consider new lines of investigation and to highlight possibilities for advancing fundamental knowledge in an SBS research domain. The committee received 62 papers in response to this second call; see Table B-2.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of the Committee's Information Gathering." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25335.
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TABLE B-1 First Call White Papers

Principal Author and Institution Paper (title)
Amir Kamel, King’s College London Economics and Security: The Ignored Relationship
Anna Duran, Avatar Research Institute The Case for Sociocultural Situational Analysis in Intelligence Assessments
Dana Perkins, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Mitigating Insider Threats through Strengthening Organizations’ Culture of Biosafety, Biosecurity, and Responsible Conduct
David Broniatowski, George Washington University (GWU) Combating Misinformation and Disinformation Online: The Battle of the Narrative
David Delaney, University of Maryland (UMd) Behavioral Public Choice and National Security Decision Making
Elizabeth O’Hare, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Using Industrial-Organizational Psychology to Strengthen the National Security Workforce
Francisco Parra-Luna, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Could We Speak of a “Social Sin” of Political Science?: A Critical Look from the Systemic Perspective
Herman Aguinis, GWU, School of Business Early Identification of Outstanding Performers
Jason Spitaletta, Johns Hopkins University-Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) The Role of Test and Evaluation in Intelligence Community Sponsored Social and Behavioral Science Research
Jennifer Webster, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Mathematical Lacks in Network Analysis
John Hoven Business Schools: Context-Specific Social Science for an Operational Purpose
John Hummel, Argonne National Laboratory Challenges in Incorporating Social and Behavioral Aspects into Intelligence Community Assessments
Joseph Dien, UMd, College Park Cognitive Augmentation for Coping with Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Overload
Josiah Dykstra, National Security Agency (NSA) Cyber Issues Related to Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security
Kent Myers, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Government Workshop on Decadal Questions
Kent Myers, ODNI A Security Community Challenge: System Effects
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Principal Author and Institution Paper (title)
Kent Myers, ODNI Social and Behavioral Science for National Security: A Government Workshop held at the National Academy of Sciences, January 31, 2017
Kent Myers, ODNI Social Science Research Needed to Help the IC Identify and Counter Deception-Related Threats
Leah Windsor, University of Memphis The Predictive Potential of Political Discourse
Lucien Randazzese, SRI International Social, Behavioral, and Economic Influences in Security Decision Making: Lessons from Early Work in Cybersecurity
Mark Wilson, North Carolina State University Development of Key Variance Visualizations of Analytic Workflow for the Support of Data-Based Discussions
Mica Endsley, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society HFES Comments on Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security
Michael Fundator, Rutgers University Combining Academic and Intelligence Knowledge and Methods in Finding Optimal Strategy for Health Policy and Cyber Security
Michael Lissack, American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) The Role of UnCritically Examined Presuppositions (UCEP’s) in SBS
Michael Lissack, ASC We Need SBS to Embrace Its Subjectivity Not Hide It
Michael Mousseau, University of Central Florida (UCF) The Promise of Economic Norms Theory
Morris Bosin Proposed Threat Assessment and Mitigation Framework
Philip Sagan, Sagan Consulting, LLC Multi-Disciplinary Studies of Probability Perception Contribute to Engineering and Exploiting Predictive Analytic Technologies
Robert Knisely The Need for a Discipline of Program Design, Between Those of Public Policy (“What needs to change?”) and Public Administration (“How did that work?”)
Stuart Umpleby, GWU Two Systems of Ethical Cognition
Stuart Umpleby, GWU Reconsidering Cybernetics
Stuart Umpleby, GWU Action Research
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Principal Author and Institution Paper (title)
Teodora Ivanuša, University of Maribor Systemic Behavior via Social Responsibility: A Way Toward a More Holistic, Reliable, and Efficient Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Theodore J. Gordon, Millennium Project New Analysis Tools for Pre-Detecting Terrorist Intent
Tom Pike, US Army/George Mason University (GMU) The Foreign Population Analytic Framework
Vladimir Krylov, State Educational Institution of Higher Education of the Republic of Crimea “Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University” (GBOUVO RK “CEPU”) RUSSIAN WORLD: Qualitative Analysis in PARADIGM Object-Oriented Design

TABLE B-2 Second Call White Papers

Principal Author and Institution Paper (title)
Aleksandra Bielska, VALCRI Project The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis: Where Are We and Where Should We Be?
Andrew Peterson, GMU Developing Ethical, Legal, and Policy Analyses Relevant to the Use of Machine Learning Algorithms in National Security
Ashley Richter Towards Ubiquitous Sensing: Staking Out the Best Paths to and Through the Upcoming 3D Data Avalanche
Aude Oliva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) The Cognitive Envelope
Bear Braumoeller, The Ohio State University (OSU) International Order and Armed Conflict
Bear Braumoeller, OSU Statistical Methods for Evidence-Based National Security Policy
Brad Allenby, Arizona State University (ASU) White Paper on Weaponized Narrative
Cameron MacKenzie, Iowa State University Better Models for National Security Strategic Decision Making
Can Uslay, Rutgers University Security and Paton Satisfaction: Issues and Recommendations
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Principal Author and Institution Paper (title)
Colin Phillips, UMd An Integrated Approach to Language Capabilities in Humans and Technology
Curtis Rasmussen, Department of Homeland Security, National Protection and Programs Directorate, Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis Intellectual Styles as a Predictor of Intelligence Analyst Job Performance
David Berube, NCSU The State of the Social Science of Nanoscience
Diane Maye, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Artificial Intelligence in Shaping Preferences and Countering the Radicalization Process
Fred Roberts, Rutgers University Big Data, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and National Security
Fritz Allhoff, University of Alaska, Anchorage The New Arctic: National and Indigenous Security, Infrastructure, and Climate Change
Gary Berntson, OSU Predicting Violent Behavior: Collectively vs. Individually
Giuseppe Labianca, University of Kentucky The Political Independence Index: Ranking Actors’ Power in Signed Social Network Graphs
Irene Wu, Georgetown University (GU) Measuring Soft Power with Conventional and Unconventional Data
James Giordano, GU Medical Center Development and Employment of Neurocognitive Science in Intelligence Operations
Jason Spitaletta, JHU-APL The Need for Intelligence Community Sponsored Influence Research
Jennifer Lerner, Harvard University Improving National Security through Research on Emotion and Decision Making
Joel Kulesza, Los Alamos National Laboratory Standardization of Color Palettes for Scientific Visualization
Jonathan Herrmann, National Intelligence University (NIU) Resilience against the Weaponized Narrative and Disinformation
Jonathan Victor, Weill Cornell Medical College A response to the Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Applications to National Security
Joseph Fargnoli, RITRE Corporation The Root Causes of National Security and the Opportunities for the Application of the Principle of the Oneness of Humanity in a New Framework of Action
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Principal Author and Institution Paper (title)
J.B. Spencer, J.A. Kulesza, and A. Sood, Los Alamos National Laboratory 3D Geometry Visualization Capability for MCNP
Judi See, Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) First Principles Analogs for the Behavioral Sciences
Judi See, Sandia Multimedia Instructional Resources for Nonpractitioners
Judi See, Sandia Developing a Predictive Model for Vigilance Performance
Julie Mendosa, National Intelligence University and DEA Transnational Organized Crime: An Evolving OCEA Challenge
Laura Steckman, The MITRE Corporation Cultural and Linguistic Influences on Sociotechnical Space: Some General Challenges and Opportunities
Laura Steckman, The MITRE Corporation Combining Narratology and Psychology to Examine Multinational Cultural Motivators, Expression, and Perceptions
Leah Windsor, University of Memphis Language, Nonverbal, and Audiovisual Cues: Multimodal Approaches to Understanding Political Behavior
Lisa Pearl, University of California Large-Scale Sophisticated Linguistic Monitoring
Mark Frankel, International Neuroethics Society Response to the National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences for Applications to National Security Nine Areas of Neuroethical Importance
Michael Franz, Loyola University, Maryland Analyzing the Mindset of Religiously Inspired Terrorists
Michael Fundator, Rutgers University Impact of Behavioral and Social Sciences on Medical and Intelligence Studies
Michael Maxwell, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (UMd-CASL) The Role of Test and Evaluation in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Michael Tennison White Paper adapted from Security Threats Versus Aggregated Truths: Ethical Issues in the Use of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology for National Security
Olusegun Owotomo, University of Texas at Austin Opioid Epidemic and Homeland Security: An Integrative Framework of Intricacies and Proposed Solutions
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Principal Author and Institution Paper (title)
Paul Kantor, Rutgers University A Program for Better Human Computer Collaboration to Counter Terrorism
Petra Bradley, UMd-CASL A National Research Agenda on Insider Threat
Polinpapilinho Katina, Old Dominion University Complex System Governance: Implications and Research Directions
R. Bowen Loftin, University of Missouri Increasing the Analyst’s Bandwidth for Perception and Understanding of Large, Multivariate Collections of Data
Reeshad Dalal, GMU Enhancing Decision Making by Cybersecurity Employees
Richard Cincotta, Stimson Center Assessing Political Demography’s Potential Application to Foreign Policy, Defense, and Intelligence Analyses
Robert Horn, Stanford University Information Murals for Intelligence Analysis
Robert Hubal, University of North Carolina Professional Social Competency Identification, Assessment, and Training
Robert West, DePauw University A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Information Security
Robin Gregory, Decision Research Decision Making to Prevent Genocide: National Security vs. Saving Lives?
Ronald Rensink, University of British Columbia Applying Vision Science to Improve Data Visualization
Shann Turnbull, International Institute for Self-governance Assessing Risk and Resilience in Governance
Stephen Cimbala, Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine Nuclear Crisis Management in the Information Age
Stephen Marrin, James Madison University Intelligence Studies, Intelligence Analysis, and Multidisciplinary Learning
Susan Aaronson, GWU The Silent Erosion of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining (FACB) and Its Implications for Social, Political, and Economic Instability
Valerie Hudson, Texas A&M University Women and National Security; Kin Groups, Environments, and Security
Vincent Alcazar Needed: A Framework to Succeed the OODA Loop
Vladimir Krylov, CEPU The Inauguration of Donald Trump Ended the Epoch of Submissional Leaders
Vladimir Krylov, CEPU Donald Trump Is America’s Response to the Challenge of History
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Principal Author and Institution Paper (title)
Wendy Chambers, UMd-CASL Predicting Terrorist Attacks by Automating Integrative Complexity
William Shelby, Purdue University Considerations for the Study of Combat-Capable Robots
Zlatan Krizan, Iowa State University Identifying How Sleep Shapes Human Intelligence Gathering and Diagnosticity

PUBLIC WORKSHOPS

Building on the insights gained through the public discussions and white papers, the committee identified a range of issues and questions for further exploration. Separate steering committees, which each included members of the parent committee and outside experts, were appointed to plan six 1-day public workshops to explore some of these issues. Experts were invited to make presentations, answer questions, and engage in discussion with members of the committee and external participants (academics, members of the IC, and government representatives). The topics for these workshops were

  1. Changing sociocultural dynamics and implications for national security
  2. Emerging trends and methods in international security
  3. Leveraging advances in social network thinking for national security
  4. Learning from the science of cognition and perception for decision making
  5. Workforce development and intelligence analysis
  6. Understanding narratives for national security purposes

The first three workshops were held concurrently on October 11, 2017; 78 in-person registrants and 251 webcast viewers from the United States, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom participated. Box B-3 provides an overview of these three workshops. The second three workshops were held concurrently on January 24, 2017; 111 in-person attendees and 230 webcast viewers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, The Netherlands, Mexico, and Canada participated. Box B-4 provides an overview of these three workshops. Documents describing the proceedings of all six workshops can be found at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/BBCSS/SBS_for_National_Security-Decadal_Survey/index.htm [June 2019].

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of the Committee's Information Gathering." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25335.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of the Committee's Information Gathering." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25335.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of the Committee's Information Gathering." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25335.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of the Committee's Information Gathering." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25335.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of the Committee's Information Gathering." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25335.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Summary of the Committee's Information Gathering." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25335.
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TOWN HALLS

Another mechanism used in past decadal studies to engage scientists and gather input is participation in town halls, forums usually held in conjunction with meetings of professional societies. Because of the exceptionally broad range of academic disciplines with potential relevance to this study, the committee had to balance the possible benefits of such meetings against the risk of hearing more from some disciplines than others because resources were limited. The committee held a roundtable December 11, 2017, at the Society for Risk Analysis in Arlington, Virginia, but also elected to host a 6-month virtual town hall through which ideas could be sought from across disciplines.

The committee used the online platform IdeaBuzz to host its virtual town hall. IdeaBuzz allowed users to submit information via short summaries of their ideas in response to the committee’s questions and criteria. Contributors could enter a few sentences or attach a white paper describing their ideas in greater detail. Alternatively, contributors could vote for ideas and/or comment on other ideas.

The SBS Decadal Survey IdeaBuzz Challenge website was open for public input from October 2017 to March 2018. The IdeaBuzz Challenge announcement was distributed to 95 academic associations and universities, publicized via Twitter, and shared through six National Academy of Sciences (NAS) member section liaisons and various Boards within NAS (see list below). At the beginning of the Challenge, seven white papers from our first and second calls for white papers were uploaded to the platform

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to encourage comments. In addition to comments and votes, the committee received seven original submissions (see Table B-3).3

To elicit input from the scientific community, the study staff and committee reached out to a number of professional organizations, university departments, NAS section liaisons, and other electronic databases. Although it is difficult to know the exact number of individuals reached, we estimate roughly that our requests were sent to more than 10,000 researchers across our outreach groups. We asked the following groups to help distribute notices for our second call for white papers and IdeaBuzz Challenge:

  • professional organizations in the SBSSBS: 41;
  • NAS section liaisons: 6;
  • deans of schools of SBSSBS (Consortium of Social Science Association’s members, contacted by Bill Maurer, dean of the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine): 54;
  • Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education listserv: 3,130 individuals;
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine social media feed: 53,000 individuals; and
  • SBS Decadal Survey listserv.

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3 An archive of the committee’s challenge is available at https://ideabuzz.com/a/buzz/nasembbcss/sbsdecadalsurvey [February 2019].

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TABLE B-3 Ideas Received from IdeaBuzz Challenge

Author/Institution Idea Title
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Supports for Immigrant Families and Adolescent Rebellion
Adrian James The Isolationism/Interactivity Continuum: Vehicle for Assessing Barriers to Intelligence Sharing
Arne Norlander, Norlander Science and Engineering Consulting (NORSECON) Human-Systems Integration in Cognitive Theatre of Operations
Bruce Crawford A Quick Peek Under the Hood: National Security Research Needs
Christopher Soren and Shann Turnbull, International Institute of Self-Governance Research How to Define, Evaluate, and Create Sound Governance
Gavrill Michas Remarks Following January Workshop
Lisa Miller, University of California, Davis Science Literacy
Michael Ramirez Change Tactics
Michael Snelgrove, Former USAF Intelligence Officer There’s a Person on the Other Side of This Chat
Valerie Hudson Women and National Security
Vladimir Krylov On the National Security Criteria for a Post-Monetary Society
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The primary function of the intelligence analyst is to make sense of information about the world, but the way analysts do that work will look profoundly different a decade from now. Technological changes will bring both new advances in conducting analysis and new risks related to technologically based activities and communications around the world. Because these changes are virtually inevitable, the Intelligence Community will need to make sustained collaboration with researchers in the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) a key priority if it is to adapt to these changes in the most productive ways.

A Decadal Survey Of The Social and Behavioral Sciences provides guidance for a 10-year research agenda. This report identifies key opportunities in SBS research for strengthening intelligence analysis and offers ideas for integrating the knowledge and perspectives of researchers from these fields into the planning and design of efforts to support intelligence analysis.

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