The Importance of Analytic Superiority in a World of Big Data and AI
By Dr. Robert L. Grossman and Dr. Emily O. Goldman
| July 30, 2024
Rapid advances in machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence (AI), large language models, and generative AI have accelerated efforts to leverage these technologies for military advantage. We refer to these and related technologies as analytics. We present a framework as a guide to achieving “analytic superiority,” which is the operational advantage obtained through the ability to collect data required for analytics; build useful, performant, and robust analytic models; and deploy analytic models in operational systems to achieve objectives, while exploiting or denying an adversary’s ability to do the same. Analytic superiority is best understood in the context of the analytic capabilities of one’s adversaries, who also collect data, build models, and deploy them to achieve their own objectives and defeat the analytics of their adversaries. U.S. cyberspace superiority, which is foundational to military advantage in the physical domains, now depends on prevailing in analytic competition with adversaries and thus requires adopting a strategy and processes to achieve analytic superiority.
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