Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS)
Abstract
The Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS) program, building upon research conducted in the Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments program in this PE/Project, will develop techniques, tools, and platforms for the DoD to detect and understand information operations in a rigorous, quantitative manner. Increasingly, competitors and adversaries are using information operations to project soft power. Competitor and adversary influence campaigns can be overt in the form of anti-U.S. messaging, or they can be disguised in the form of complex narratives that seek to advance agendas harmful to U.S. interests. The USG and DoD need the capability to rapidly detect and understand competitor and adversary messaging campaigns and narratives within the context of the populations and groups for whom they are intended. To accomplish this, the program will develop and operationalize natural language processing, semantic analysis, social network analysis, psychographics, and behavioral science-based technologies, and integrate these into a unified information operations modeling framework and sensemaking platform. INCAS aims to produce a suite of largely automated digital tools to enable analysts to better understand how information is being used by competitors and adversaries, and to quantitatively assess in real time and at scale the effects of influence campaigns and of countermeasures.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 780c4e4c632be5ecb5c7d2c37352efda
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