Do you want more efficient, more accurate and more timely evidence to drive your day-to-day practices?

Are you in the weeds, on the shop floor, at the teeth end: sifting through the sparse, unreliable and cluttered data to understand the situation and shape it?

Do you build systems for such people? Train them? Are you frustrated by inadequate methods? Overwhelmed by too much information? Disconnected from fellow practitioners?

We are you: a scattered community of intelligence operators, information systems engineers, cyber security analysts, researchers, data scientists, and leaders who work for a living.  We want to be quicker, more accurate, more thorough, and more explicit about uncertainties and the limits of what we know.

The Tactical Informer collects and collates news to help you quickly understand who else shares your problems, what good practices have been established, and what developments are under way.

In late July we intend to host a webinar on working methods: structured analytic techniques, searching the body of knowledge, lessons learned and lessons unlearned, possible futures, and so on. We will be trawling for papers and presentations; please do volunteer early if you have something to say. We can help you say it.

To reduce spamming your attention, this newsletter contains just a selection. A reference set of events are here; news sources are here; a starter reading list is here, and training courses are here.

Do share! If you know of conferences, study groups, books, resources or research that you think are relevant send them to us at tisg.news@knowledge4strength.org and we’ll include them.