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Q&A Stretching to Make Calls That Aid Decision-Making Defense Analyst Robert Cardillo Deputy Director for Analysis Defense Intelligence Agency Robert Cardillo is deputy director for analysis for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), where he directs the analytical effort of approximately 7,000 analysts who are responsible for producing the national military intelligence required to develop and execute the National Security Strategy. He is also the designated GDIP functional manager for analysis. In this role, he manages all-source analytic responsibilities and leads efforts to evaluate and improve the performance of the analytic community, which includes DIA, the service intelligence centers, and the intelligence centers at the combatant commands. Cardillo has served in a variety of leadership positions within the intelligence community. Before assuming his current position, he served as the director, analysis and production, National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency. Other key leadership positions included director, source operations and management, and director, Office of Corporate Relations, National Imagery and Mapping Agency. He began his career in 1983 as an imagery analyst with the DIA and was selected to the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service in May 2000. Cardillo earned a Bachelor of Arts in government from Cornell University in 1983 and a Master of Arts in national security studies from Georgetown University in 1988. Q: As the deputy director for analysis at the DIA, you are responsible for thousands of analysts supporting the warfighter. How do GIS and geospatial technology help your work force accomplish its mission? A: GEOINT is a critical contributor to the various sources of intelligence used by our expeditionary analytic work force supporting the warfighter on the ground. Over 15 percent of DI analysts have deployed in the field. That impressive number is a credit to our work force. When our analysts can support the mission in theater, it helps them to combine their content—what information they know—with a context—knowledge gained from relationships, networks and collaboration from the warfighter. When content and context are put together, we can provide real analysis that is of consequence: analysis that provides decision advantage to our leaders. GEOINT and the use of geospatial intelligence systems take on a fuller and deeper perspective when developed within the same content and context in which the warfighter is operating. For those analysts supporting the warfighter stateside, GEOINT and GIS provide a key element to the products they are developing both in support of the warfighter and policy decision-makers. Q: You were asked to speak on a panel discussing human terrain and socio-cultural analysis at the GEOINT Symposium this past October. What, in your opinion, were the most important points of those that were shared? A: Experts from the ODNI, NGA, Marine Corps Intelligence and the Army Human Terrain System Research Center, as well as from academia, joined me to discuss this topic. We looked at how this area of intelligence calls upon us as leaders to develop systems that manage and mine the huge amounts of data gathered in support of the warfighter. In effect, knowing that providing contextually substantive intelligence is a key to success on the ground, our discussion centered on how we are re-engineering how we do the business of intelligence and, essentially, redefining the term “context.” Local and regional cultural issues—or human terrain as that area of intelligence has come to be known—is an area of analysis that hinges on geographically based socio-cultural intelligence to support a wide variety of missions. I’ve heard it estimated that some 65 percent of all information on the battlefield is geo-referenced, and while I can’t confirm that estimate, even at half that percentage, GIS has become pivotal to success in the field. The irregular, asymmetric threat that currently faces us can be found in a wide variety of socio-cultural environments, including urban areas. That means there is the added concern: How do we adjust our planning to take into account the safety of places like schools or other areas where children or families congregate? www.<strong>MGT</strong>-kmi.com <strong>MGT</strong> 7.1 | 21
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