INTRODUCING INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING: OPERATING BEYOND THE CONVENTIONAL
INTRODUCING INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING: OPERATING BEYOND THE CONVENTIONAL

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary defence and security efforts can be viably improved. With an overarching focus on ‘ways’, ‘means’, up and across to realising operational and strategic-ranging ‘ends’, this article advances a substantially-structured, multi-scaler ‘intelligence engineering’ (IE)-based framework and ‘step-by-step’ toolbox useful for both deployment and employment for a multitude of purposes - essentially whatever is to be accomplished. As this article goes on to reveal, the IE framework can contribute towards helping progress several intelligence and knowledge-related tasks. Both ‘situational awareness’ to deeper-ranging ‘contextualisation’ assistance value is offered. Demonstrating how they can be best harnessed, the different process ‘steps’ cover diverse areas such as, inter alia: ‘focus/topic selection’ through to the fashioning of ‘signifier node(s)’ for helping in decision-making both now and into the future. Concluding, this article highlights that the entire process involved facilitates: (i) greater risk appreciation; and then (ii) subsequent risk management; as well as even advancing (iii) risk engineering to resilience qualities, in overall defence and security enterprises and endeavours during an era when much uncertainty is encountered.

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