Disciple‐lta: Analyst's Cognitive Assistant Disciple‐lta: Analyst's Cognitive Assistant

Disciple‐LTA is a personal cognitive assistant to an intelligence analyst that addresses several systemic problems associated with the current analytic process related to effective analytic assistance, capturing of analytic expertise, and tutoring new analysts. Disciple‐LTA can rapidly acquire and maintain analytic expertise which currently takes years to establish, is lost when analysts separate from service, and is costly to replace. It can help an analyst to rapidly find solutions to complex analytical problems, share intelligence, collaborate with complementary experts and their agents, and report results of research. It can also help new intelligence analysts learn the reasoning processes involved in making intelligence judgments and solving intelligence analysis problems. While presenting an overview of all these capabilities of Disciple‐LTA, this paper concentrates on the analytic assistance provided to an end‐user. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Army War College, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or any other agency of the U.S. government. Examples of analysis performed within this article are only examples. They should not be utilized in real‐world analytic product as they are based only on very limited and dated open source information. Assumptions made within the analysis are not reflective of the position of any U.S. government entity.