Management Science
Designing a Call Center with Impatient Customers
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Understanding Terror Networks
Defending Critical Infrastructure
Interfaces
Interdicting a Nuclear-Weapons Project
Operations Research
Operations Research
Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis
Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis
Queue inference from periodic reporting data
Operations Research Letters
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This paper is the archival record of the INFORMS Philip McCord Morse Lecture delivered in 2010. It considers applications of operations research to intelligence problems in national security and counterterrorism. The phrase “intelligence operations research” can be interpreted in two different ways: as intelligence operations} research, meaning studies to characterize and improve the operations of intelligence agencies themselves, and as intelligence operations research, meaning the application of operations research methods to specific substantive intelligence problems. After defining intelligence, I review the intelligence production process or the intelligence cycle with reference to the intelligence community of the United States. I then consider the extent to which operations research has been deployed inside this intelligence community and summarize previous attempts to apply operations research methods to intelligence problems. I close with some suggestions for future intelligence operations research studies.