Smart Systems for Smart Power

As the Figure below illustrates, Smart Power is enabled by a range of tools and technologies which can be integrated into a set of capabilities which in turn can enable smart power processes to support a range of missions. Key tools and technologies include methods for automatic and semi-automatic:

• population sampling and calibration of surveys and media content analyses
• analysis of topic and subtopics of interest in communications
• attribution of authors (e.g., in blogs and other social media)
• analysis of discourse to understand conversations and group dynamics (including participants and indicators of perceptions and forecasts of behaviors)
• sentiment analysis to identify and classify individual and group attitudes and opinions
• summarization (including both extraction and abstraction) from a range of media including web sites, blogs, and newspapers in both English and foreign languages
• modeling of broad range of social, cultural, and behavioral phenomena as well as media and communication modeling potentially exploiting a broad range of and integration across modeling methods such as mathematical, Bayesian, and agent-based models
• geospatial and temporal analysis and visualization

As the Figure illustrates, these tools and technologies enable a number of capabilities such as opinion detection and tracking, social network analysis, and tools for training and planning. These capabilities can be integrated into systems that enable various smart power processes such as audience and media analysis, training and experimentation, Diplomatic, Information, Military, and Economic ( DIME) course of action planning and execution, and assessment of effects of smart power engagements. Finally, MITRE's strategy includes exploring how innovative technologies, systems, processes and partnerships enable a broad range of missions from strategic communication, to countering violent extremism, to humanitarian relief, to building partner capacity. We will share our innovations, systems solutions, and lessons learned across services, agencies and departments.

Learn more...

• MITRE's Corporate Initiative in Smart Power
• Smart Systems for Smart Power
• Research: Measuring and Guiding Engagement
• Smart Power Lecture Series
• Publications and Briefings (including Newsletters)
• Recommended Reading

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