Decision science emphasizes necessary elements required for robust decision‐making. By
incorporating decision science principles, frameworks, and tools, it has been demonstrated …

How might analytic reasoning in intelligence reports be substantially improved? One
conjecture is that this can be achieved through a combination of crowdsourcing and …

Following significant intelligence failures, the United States intelligence community adopted
Intelligence Community Directive 203 (ICD203) to promote analytic rigor. We developed two …

The analytic standards governing the production of intelligence are outlined in a number of
Intelligence Community Directives (ICDs). In this paper, we are concerned with ICDs 203 …

Intelligence organizations perform many functions. For example, they conduct covert
operations that would be too politically sensitive for militaries to undertake as explicit …

Analytical standards and its impact is a topic compelling the US Intelligence Community (IC)
toward a discipline of proficiency and structure comparable to other professional fields is an …

The quality of information that informs decisions in expert domains such as law enforcement
and national security often requires assessment based on metainformational cues such as …

We have been presented with a number of different perspectives on and approaches to the
question of the academic-practitioner divide in this book. What, then, are the key conclusions …

The future of private sector intelligence (PSI), distinct from government and national security
(GaNS) intelligence, is simultaneously more sensitive to and dependent on …

In the present research, we aimed to examine the extent to which Canadian IC experts
agreed with the directives for promoting analytic rigor captured in ICD 203. Although some …