Recent revolutions in sensor technologies, coupled with a worldwide cultural phenomenon of social networking, offer an unprecedented window into the day-to-day lifecycles of human societies and regional populations. At the same time, the current trend toward higher-resolution, larger fields of view of existing and planned ISR systems is driving data volumes exponentially, exacerbated by the continuous demands for extending what can be inferred from data. This escalated data volume is overwhelming the cognitive constraints experienced by the intelligence analysts and turning the latter into a crucial bottleneck that hinders the overall system effectiveness. The negative impacts percolate downstream to the distributed warfighters operating tactical computing devices and upstream to the Combat Operations Centers.
Keywords: Information Value Models, Uncertainty And Knowledge Gaps, 4-Dimensional Hscb Data Model, Automated Value-Of-Information Assessment, Automated Value-Based Filtering, Mission-Ta
