Abstract
In 2013, the National Security Agency (NSA) founded the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) at North Carolina State University (NCSU) to help the Intelligence Community (IC) address the growing complexity of big data challenges. The goal of LAS is to partner experts and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to create tools and techniques that help intelligence analysts provide better information to the decision makers who need it. This interview of Alyson Wilson, the principal investigator of LAS from NCSU, and Matthew Schmidt, the LAS technical director from NCSU, is conducted by Lara Schmidt, the principal director for Strategic and Global Awareness at the Aerospace Corporation, and Brent Winter from University Relations at NCSU. It provides an overview of the LAS collaboration model and describes projects conducted at LAS.Keywords: anticipatory thinking, collaboration, innovation, intelligence community, structured analytic techniques
Highlights
In 2013, the National Security Agency (NSA) founded the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) at North Carolina State University (NCSU) to help the Intelligence Community (IC) address the growing complexity of big data challenges
The goal of LAS is to partner experts and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to create tools and techniques that help intelligence analysts provide better information to the decision makers who need it. This interview of Alyson Wilson, the principal investigator of LAS from NCSU, and Matthew Schmidt, the LAS technical director from NCSU, is conducted by Lara Schmidt, the principal director for Strategic and Global Awareness at the Aerospace Corporation, and Brent Winter from University Relations at NCSU. It provides an overview of the LAS collaboration model and describes projects conducted at LAS
You know the stereotype from movies and TV shows—government intelligence agencies housed in fortress-like hidden facilities, where analysts with top-secret clearances analyze information gathered from halfway around the world? Well, that image isn't entirely false, but the IC has realized that every company has the same challenge they do, which is to figure out how to use data to gain strategic advantage; so they decided to partner with academia and industry to see if they could accelerate innovation in data science
Summary
The goal of LAS is to partner experts and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to create tools and techniques that help intelligence analysts provide better information to the decision makers who need it. LAS has about 40 government staff, including NSA intelligence analysts and researchers, working on site. The government staff work in the lab on staggered 3-year rotations to help develop tools and techniques that would be useful to them in their regular intelligence duties.
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