Technology Gain-of-Function Strategies

Assists Intelligence Experts

• Purpose
  • Enable intelligence experts to systematically assess analytic and operational performance.
  • Support oversight, coordination, and accountability across intelligence functions.
• Quantifying Improvements
  • Measure gains in analytic accuracy, timeliness, and confidence.
  • Assess operational effectiveness in collection, processing, and dissemination.
• Normalization of Capabilities
  • Translate diverse and complex intelligence capabilities into comparable metrics.
  • Apply standardized scales to reduce bias and enable cross-domain comparison.
• Evidence-Based Multipliers
  • Convert measured improvements into multipliers reflecting real-world impact.
  • Ground assessments in data, validation, and historical performance.
• Oversight and Coordination Value
  • Provide leadership with clear, comparable indicators of performance.
  • Improve interagency coordination by aligning metrics and expectations.