José Martín Juárez Blog

30 June 2009

The present and the future of intelligence systems: NOWIS 5.2. Revolution in innovation of Intelligence Systems.

First of all, with researcher’s humility and spirit of self-criticism necessary to be presented in the works of any continuous innovation company within such a transcendental field of intelligence systems applicable generally to any kind of organizations and particularly to national public security, I want to state that the messages I will transmit now are the fruit of leadership Interligare has achieved through its research works recognized by the world-wide Intelligence community as a reference in the present and in the future. This leadership is grounded in maintenance of seven continuous innovation programs, about 25 research projects trying to respond to more than 155 research lines. As well these programs try to contribute to more than 40 different systems that within the framework of the new generation of NowIS will compose our offer of systems able to deploy advanced intelligence organizations.


Nowadays, the intelligence systems are interpreted by the users as software systems able to respond to specific processes of traditional intelligence circle. Basically these software systems permit to realise the following:

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23 June 2009

Silent Intelligence Networks - 1st part

When the lunar module Eagle, with Neil Armstrong and “Buzz" Aldrin inside, landed on the Sea of Tranquillity on July 10, 1969, it was supposed that the lunar module computer connected with the landing engines and radar had to realize automatically the landing. But the computer could not process all the data received from the radar in real time and as a result delayed in performing calculations. The pilot had to land the spacecraft manually. In the real world I denominate as “due time for decision-making” the temporal framework where a decision triggering a combination of previously established and trained actions is to be produced. This characteristic determines in large part the intelligence model and structure to be established. Nowadays both the military sphere where new MIRV (Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicle), weapon systems blasting off various warheads from one rocket called “AUTOBUS” able to change its route, velocity, direction and even the target (last generation system) are being designed and deployed and in sphere of cyber-terrorism where ubiquity of Internet and its integration with actions to be realized on threat perceptual and physical levels oblige to plan an intelligence model that I call "Silent Intelligence Network" In the next chapter I will explain the approach, function and significant of the Silent Intelligence as well its network application; but basically its essence is systematic production of "Automatic Intelligence Items". Once disseminated they permit to develop other systems with operational character (transactions, decisions) and make them operate in the intelligent way according to the knowledge degree of the environment and the level of uncertainty over this environment in such a way that it can give real time operative replies and induce strategic actions in due time for decision-making through starting of conventional Intelligence projects.
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20 June 2009

Ideology, Politics and Intelligence based on evidences. (Dedicated to my teacher Michael Arbib)

Disputing about politics, generally people look for data supporting their opinions instead of data that would help them to change their minds. Some politician from the Conservative party interprets information as proves that the money is wasted in welfare benefits while the other from the Progressive Party interprets it as proves of necessity to devote much more attention to this question. Furthermore, not always when people see the reality of the things (authentic reality) their behaviour is ideally rational. As such, for long term political planning it is necessary to take into account that people collect data for satisfying certain ideological necessities adapting these data to some existing mental scheme (their perception) instead of changing this scheme adapting it to the facts even if their political objectives do not change the form of approximating to these facts. The quality of the information is a factor that has got exactly the same importance as particular “filters” in the minds of the information receivers. It is important to avoid information worship in itself: more quantity is not better if for obtaining of exactitude it is necessary to pay a high price. A mass of irrelevant information is a perfect camouflage for bad authority practice.

Nevertheless, the ideology may give in to evidences if they are sufficient, competitive and valid. Let’s see an example from former Soviet Union.

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19 June 2009

The Intelligence discipline in the XXI century – 1 part. Fundamental concepts of the discipline.

This article is an advance of doctrinal reflection work aimed to establish basic principles of the intelligence discipline in the XXI century as an essential element of human organizations efficient management. The intelligence as a discipline is changing its condition of being used only by governmental secret services, orienting its position in the framework of human knowledge for being applied to human organization, concretely to their management.
To become a discipline within management of human organizations its mission must be to try to resolve a certain problem existing in this field. From our point of view mission and purpose of the intelligence discipline is to contribute to the improvement of treatment and management of strategic information in any organization. We define mentioned above strategic information as information required to set objectives and successfully achieve them. There are three types of strategic information in any organization:

1- Strategic Information of support to processes, and to business or service continuity.
2- Strategic Information of support to threat detection and management.
3- Strategic Information of support to opportunities detection and management.

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18 June 2009

As we said yesterday

Fray Luis from Leon, an old monk, a Spanish wise man, and a professor emeritus of Salamanca University after various year of imprisonment because of false accusations by Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition returned to give lectures beginning with already famous phrase “as we said yesterday”. In the same manner I eager to start again with publishing my, and without fail I would like to explain my prolonged absence. During these two years of silence I devoted myself to start-up process of Interligare. I would say proudly that this is not a common company; it is and will be the world-wide reference in creation and development of the intelligence discipline.

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21 February 2007

Kent's Problem

The father of the North American Strategic Intelligence doctrine, which principles have been kept in effect for many years, established one of the problems that more motivates to investigators of Intelligence discipline to develop new approaches in the shape of procedures and methods. Sherman Kent, across his multiple works, established and dignified a frame of reference that allowed to turn Intelligence analysis functions into a knowledge workers' profession.In his studies around the intelligence "Doctrinal Corpus", that is, the Intelligence Cycle, he verified the problems associated with its structure and made it possible to unbind Intelligence from the cycle in strict sense, understanding this one as a procedural model of reality that can have more valid alternative models.
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20 February 2007

Antiterrorists Agencies: Missions and Functions on Intelligence

From the study of the main antiterrorist agencies we will enunciate the common elements that mark its daily activity from the point of view of Intelligence:

  1. A change in the "Need to Know" model, which has been guiding untill now the intelligence supply, in order to extend it to new processes. This processes are marked by safety and alert levels, by means of which all the accredited individuals could accede to the information that they need to be able to plan dissuasion, intervention and protection actions. This supposes starting notably different intelligence products and diffusion systems.

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05 February 2007

Terrorist threat and new approaches of Intelligence

The increase of international terrorism developed from the outbreak of Al Qaeda and more specifically from the successful large-scale attacks in New York, London and Madrid, focused the attention of Governments and citizens in the apparent Intelligence failures attributed to the organizations in charge of their development. Thus, Western Governments are promoting changes in the structure and function of intelligence services, while reflection and changing projects in the procedures and methods used in such services are conspicuous by their absence. This is certainly due to the profound ignorance of politicians about the body doctrinal and methodological discipline of Intelligence and its role of real utility, and at the same time to lack of innovation and dynamism in the adequacy of procedures and methods to new realities that put pressure in the form of new threats and demands of Intelligence.
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13 May 2006

Evaluation, Investigation and Judgement

Traditionally the analyst of Intelligence is considered to be an investigator, with competence for:
  • Determining the problem accurately.

  • Establishing questions and objective investigations.

  • Designing and developing an information obtaining plan.

  • Managing the planning for information obtaining and its process of execution.

  • Processing (analyzing and integrating) the information.

  • Spreading the intelligence- product in accordance with the client organization´s demand.

Lewins defines analysis as the process in which the constituent parts of what is being analyzed, are identified in their established relations, in order to understand how the totality and/or its parts are constituted and/or work.
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13 March 2006

Reflexive Government

It is necessary to remember that democracy is a form of government in which the sovereign power resides in the people. This power is exercised directly by them or by representatives freely chosen by them. A part of the democratic ideal is that all the inhabitants of a state have the same rights, without arbitrary hereditary differences or of status or privilege order.
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