The Air Force has announced a new tool designed to streamline many of the routine tasks of its intelligence analysts.
ERNEST (Enhanced Reporting, Narrative Event Streaming Tool) was created by the Air Force Research Laboratory in collaboration with others including educational and industry partners.
The Air Force describes the tool as an integrated compilation of many different tools such as a video player, speech to text program, slide maker and chat program.
“In the development of this software we visited at least five different bases and interviewed hundreds of different analysts to get a good understanding on how they perform their job,” said Dr. Daniel Zelik, a senior cognitive systems engineer with the Air Force, adding, “This enabled us to have confidence that we are developing the software that it is grounded in how analysts actually do their job.”
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