Abstract
September 11, 2001, marked a major turning point for domestic and international information sharing among militaries and civilian security services. The U.S. Department of Defense, for one, transformed itself from a Cold War fighting force to one tailored to fighting global terrorism and terror-sponsoring regimes. The international character of terrorism required new information technology and new sources of information. The variety and volume of information also required an organizational structure to overcome the compartmentalization of intelligence. Fusion centers became the solution. This chapter summarizes the existing literature on information and intelligence fusion in both civilian and military fusion centers. It recounts the development of civilian fusion centers intended to deal with domestic terrorist threats and examines how the concept has been applied in military organizations. The paper reviews different models that have been used to develop fusion centers.
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Note, however, that there is a paucity of research on the active role of humans in processing fused information (Nilsson et al. 2012).
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Catano, V., Gauger, J. (2017). Information Fusion: Intelligence Centers and Intelligence Analysis. In: Goldenberg, I., Soeters, J., Dean, W. (eds) Information Sharing in Military Operations. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42819-2_2
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