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Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences for Applications to National Security

Completed

This project carried out a decadal survey on the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) in areas relevant to national security. The survey identified opportunities that are poised to contribute significantly to the intelligence community's analytic responsibilities. The project kicked-off with a national summit that was held on October 4-5, 2016, and included 6 information-gathering workshops held in January and October 2018.

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Consensus

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2019

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 bas...

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