Call for Abstracts

Your research can help solve mission-oriented challenges faced by the intelligence community.

Each summer, the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) kicks off the annual planning cycle by releasing a call for abstracts. Academic and industry researchers are invited to submit one or more research project ideas. The call for abstracts is based on continuing LAS research interests and discussions with U.S. Intelligence Community partners about mission needs. The call for abstracts provides examples of technical areas and applications of interest for LAS.

LAS is a mission-oriented academic-industry-government research collaboration that works at the intersection of technology and tradecraft. We apply unclassified examples from academic and commercial partners to intelligence community goals. Collaborators selected for project funding will work with LAS staff to deliver mission-relevant solutions to better support today’s intelligence analysts.

Technical Areas

Operationalizing AI/ML

Interests related to understanding and evaluating the capabilities and behavior of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) technologies, to facilitate their appropriate integration into operational intelligence environments.

Human-Machine Teaming

Interests related to improving how analysts can partner effectively with automation, particularly through the exploration of novel designs for user experiences that integrate state-of-the-art AI and ML capabilities.

Content Triage

Interests related to the scalable extraction and summarization of text, image, speech, audio and video content, in order to facilitate its discovery and use in intelligence analysis workflows.