Harnessing Data for National Security

Since 9/11, the U.S. government has initiated efforts to enhance its information-sharing capabilities and doubled its investment in counterterrorism, spending nearly $80 billion. Sharing data and conducting analyses across the government's legacy stovepipes of information is challenging but man...

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Published in:SAIS review (Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies) 2014-01, Vol.34 (1), p.121
Main Authors: Rubin, David, Lynch, Kim, Escaravage, Jason, Lerner, Hillary
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Case studies
Casualties
Counterterrorism
Government agencies
Internet service providers
Law enforcement
National security
Privacy
Social networks
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Summary:Since 9/11, the U.S. government has initiated efforts to enhance its information-sharing capabilities and doubled its investment in counterterrorism, spending nearly $80 billion. Sharing data and conducting analyses across the government's legacy stovepipes of information is challenging but mandatory to reduce redundancy, increase cost efficiency, and improve national security mission performance. The challenges involved in harnessing big data analytics for a more enlightened approach to national security center on striking the optimal balance between complex opposing forces-opportunity versus risk, collective security versus individual privacy, and innovation versus protection. While the government has made progress in identifying existing data sources and sharing high-level metadata, it is still in the early phases of the maturity curve in terms of enabling access across the federal ecosystem to leverage the valuable analytics that inform evidence-driven decision-making. This paper explores the strategies and frameworks to expedite effectively analyzing and using data to drive national security activities.
ISSN:1945-4716
1945-4724