Challenges in information fusion technology capabilities for modern intelligence and security problems

Evolutions in both the socio-political dynamics of the World and in Information and Computing Technologies have drastically changed the nature of many intelligence problems in ways that make them much more complex. Information Fusion (IF) technologies, which have historically been among the leading suppliers of information to intelligence analyses and analysts, are now similarly challenged to address these new complexities. This paper offers perspectives on what these challenges entail, and briefly describes some research efforts attempting to deal with some of these challenges. However, there is much more that needs to be done by the IF community, and some of the needed research and development is also described in the paper.