Social And Behavioral Sciences For National Security: Proceedings Of A Summit
2017 / English / PDF
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In the coming years, complex domestic and international
environments and challenges to national security will continue.
Intelligence analysts and the intelligence community will need
access to the appropriate tools and developing knowledge about
threats to national security in order to provide the best
information to policy makers. Research and knowledge from the
social and behavioral sciences (SBS) can help inform the work of
intelligence analysis; however, in the past, bringing important
findings from research to bear on the day-to-day work of
intelligence analysis has been difficult.
In the coming years, complex domestic and international
environments and challenges to national security will continue.
Intelligence analysts and the intelligence community will need
access to the appropriate tools and developing knowledge about
threats to national security in order to provide the best
information to policy makers. Research and knowledge from the
social and behavioral sciences (SBS) can help inform the work of
intelligence analysis; however, in the past, bringing important
findings from research to bear on the day-to-day work of
intelligence analysis has been difficult.
In order to understand how knowledge from science can be directed
and applied to help the intelligence community fulfill its
critical responsibilities, the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine will undertake a 2-year survey of the
social and behavioral sciences. To launch this discussion, a
summit designed to highlight cutting-edge research and identify
future directions for research in a few areas of the social and
behavioral sciences was held in October 2016. This publication
summarizes the presentations and discussions from the summit.
In order to understand how knowledge from science can be directed
and applied to help the intelligence community fulfill its
critical responsibilities, the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine will undertake a 2-year survey of the
social and behavioral sciences. To launch this discussion, a
summit designed to highlight cutting-edge research and identify
future directions for research in a few areas of the social and
behavioral sciences was held in October 2016. This publication
summarizes the presentations and discussions from the summit.
