Dynamic Ad Hoc Social Networks in Improvised Intelligence/Counter-Intelligence Exercises: A Department of Homeland Security Red-Team Blue-Team Live-Action Roleplay
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Kellen Myers
, Ashley DeNegre , Lazaros Gallos , Natalie Lemanski , Alexander Mayberry , Agnesa Redere , Samantha Schwab , Oliver Stringham und Nina H. Fefferman
Abstract
We discuss a Red Team-Blue Team (RT-BT) study conducted to examine the formation and efficacy of social networks in self-organizing, ad hoc, or crowd-sourced intelligence and counter-intelligence operations in grassroots, improvised communities. Student volunteers were sorted into two teams: one team (Blue) was asked to find puzzle pieces using clues provided by the organizers, with the goal of reconstructing a message contained therein, while the opposing team (Red) was tasked with disrupting this process. While the Blue Team quickly organized into an efficient, centrally-governed structure, the Red Team instead adopted a decentralized, distributed operational network to hinder puzzle completion, using creative and diverse infiltration and disruption methods to interfere in the more centralized, hierarchical organization of their opponents. This exercise shows how untrained, unaffiliated individuals may self-organize into different types of social organizations to accomplish common tasks when aware of potential adversarial organizations, and how these choices may affect their efficacy in accomplishing collaborative clandestine goals.
Funding source: Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Award Identifier / Grant number: 2014
Funding statement: The original LARP exercise was funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Next Generation Communications and Interoperability (NGCI) 2014 grant through the Command, Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA). Additional analysis of the study data and writing of this manuscript was funded in part by the DHS National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) grant for “Modeling the Emergence of Leaders in Self-Organizing Social Networks.”
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