Operational Innovation & Information
DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS INFORMED BY SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT
The Operational Innovation and Information (OI2) Division brings together experts from several fields, including linguistics, psychology, and computational social sciences, to innovate operational solutions and model the complexities of human motivations and behavior in the global information environment in collaboration with other divisions.
This expertise guides decision-making, enhances operational effectiveness, and supports national security.
Capabilities
Employing advanced modeling techniques to examine human decision-making (individually and in groups), model human and technical networks, and simulate knowledge acquisition, allowing national security strategies to anticipate and defeat adversaries effectively. Includes wargaming, tabletop exercises, and large agent based models.
Studying human reactions in diverse environments (cultural, linguistic, technical, etc.), including cyber contexts, to inform training and develop operational concepts to create decision advantage. Applied expertise in across a wide range of human factors to enable U.S. government efforts to confound, confuse, disrupt, and defeat adversaries.
Accelerate the adoption of commercial intelligence solutions by developing test and evaluation concepts and aligning evaluations with DoD and Intelligence Community standards, to ensure delivery of secure, transformational solutions to the U.S. government.
Dissecting communication patterns by utilizing natural language processing and linguistic analysis to provide insights into cultural and contextual factors to provide an advantage for intelligence and military operations. Also, identifying key signals via multilingual text analysis.
Developing human-focused performance metrics that facilitate data-first strategies for intelligence and improve test and evaluation of advanced technology. Develop training programs that improve mission outcomes and operational readiness.
Mission Areas
Open-Source Intelligence
Trusted methods to collect, evaluate, and operationalize publicly available information, enhancing situational awareness and decision-making across national security missions.
Information Warfare
Tools and strategies to counter adversarial influence, defend decision-making integrity, and dominate complex information environments.