ABSTRACT
Experiences in dealing with intelligence and security problems in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places in the world have required the formulation of new paradigms of intelligence analysis and dynamic decision making. Broadly, these problems fall into the categories of counter-terrorism and counterinsurgency (COIN) as well as stability operations. Soft or hard data can also find their way into modern information fusion (IF) processes in the form of monitored open source and social media feed such as newswire feeds, Twitter, and blog sources judged to be possibly helpful. Modern problems also afford the use of additional data and information beyond just observational data. A major category of such data and information is Contextual Information (CI). Common Referencing (CR) is that traditional IF system functions that is sometimes called "Alignment" and is the function that normalizes these input sources for any given fusion application or design.
