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October 23, 2025

Meet the LAS Interns

The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) is pleased to welcome this year’s student interns. Hailing from NC State and Penn State, our spotlighted interns are gaining practical skills working alongside…

August 14, 2025

SCADS 2025: Help for the Overburdened Analyst

Intelligence analysts face an overwhelming volume of data to assess. From video footage to audio recordings to text transcripts and other documents, even knowing where to start looking for what’s…

May 01, 2025

Operator Comment Taxonomy Developed by NC State, UNC Added to National Security Policy

The National Security Agency recently updated its policy to incorporate an innovative commenting tool created by researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill and the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences at NC State.  Language…

March 31, 2025

Laboratory for Analytic Sciences Releases 2024 Impact Report

The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) at North Carolina State University released its 2024 Impact Report, highlighting the organization’s continued exploration of novel capabilities that improve intelligence analysis. This year’s…

January 13, 2025

SCADS Technical Report Highlights Innovative Prototypes for Intelligence Analysts 

LAS has published its technical findings from the 2024 Summer Conference on Applied Data Science. The report captures the results of more than forty research projects undertaken by data science…

January 13, 2025

LAS Announces 2025 Collaborators

The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences at NC State University will provide research funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to 17 faculty collaborators representing 11 academic institutions and three industry…

January 13, 2025

Laboratory for Analytic Sciences Hosts 10th Research Symposium for Intelligence Analysis

Deploy, test, refine. That’s an oft-heard phrase at NC State’s Laboratory for Analytic Sciences annual research symposium, where more than 200 attendees from government, industry and academia gathered on December…

November 08, 2024

Meet the LAS Interns

At the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS), collaboration and innovation are at the core of groundbreaking applied research. This year’s interns, hailing from various disciplines, are working alongside experts to…

October 04, 2024

Tearing Is Sharing: Tearlines Summarize Classified Reports for Broad Readership

For an intelligence report to be useful, it’s essential that the report can be shared with the right customers. This can be very challenging in real-world environments, as customers don’t…

September 10, 2024

Sight Unseen, Students Design UX for Intelligence Analysts

A Fictitious Terrorist Attack “In 2019 a bombing killed two people and injured others in the city of Macondo, a mountain town in Oceania. A commercially made drone fitted with…

September 05, 2024

Collaborators Build Reporting Tools for Intelligence Community at Third Annual SCADS

Between the U.S. presidential race, a global tech outage, the Paris Olympics, and intensifying regional wars, the world witnessed historic geopolitical moments this summer. Events like these generate overwhelming amounts…

August 29, 2024

Lost in Translation: Enhancing Operator Comment Workflows with New Technologies

LAS’s collaboration with UNC-Chapel Hill helps language analysts listen to audio recordings, translate them into English, and add operator comments to help the reader understand who or what the speaker may be discussing.